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Going home
Black History Month, day 15 Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, traces the history of two branches of a family, from the Asante woman Maame through her two daughters, who are unknown to each other, and their des
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UU Church in Anaheim, California, Announces New Minister
Dear Members of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim: I’m happy to announce the UUCA Board of Trustees on Sunday, February 17, 2019 ratified a contractual agreement with Reverend James
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Thinking of the White Rose
It was today in 1943 when the Nazis began to arrest the members of the White Rose. This small group of German students and their professor had been posting leaflets denouncing the Nazi regime. T
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Pagan Community Notes: Brady’s “good witch” wife, Witches in media, and more!
This week's Pagan Community news covers Brady's "witch" wife, Witch marks in Nottinghamshire, the prevalence of witches in the mainstream media, a witch ride and community announcements. Pagan Communi
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Beyond February
Black History Month, day 14 If people get anything from these posts, I hope it’s something like this: a list of things to read / learn / experience that is so extensive that they have to (and want to!
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Wheel of Fun
Today, Margy and I made art together. She was coloring Celtic goddesses, and I made this fun wheel. It is on the model of a chore wheel–you know, where you spin the dial and know who is doing dishes
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Feminism & Me: Bartlesville Women Stood Strong
I watched in amazement as the woman seated beside me plucked the only bottle of wine off the buffet table, brought it back to her seat, put it up to her lips and took a couple of very long pulls. She
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What Do You Want to Want?
Part 1. So. Desire. But WHICH desires? Have you noticed how many of the seven deadly sins are desires? Lust, gluttony, greed. Envy is a comparative desire: comparing myself to others, I desire as good
Desire
Presidents Day—The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The ladies of the Mt. Vernon society provided this colections of portraits for Presidents Day a few years ago. Not using one that includes the current squater. Note— I am recycling last year’s Presi
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Thoughts on Hurtful Hats
Roman Catholic Bishop Roger Foys has officially pronounced Covington Catholic High School’s youth free of sin in last month’s dustup at the Lincoln Memorial. “We should not have allowed ourselves to b
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247 – Progressive Faith Beyond Optimism
This week on The VUU This week on The VUU, we chatted with Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd about her new book, After the Good News: Progressive Faith Beyond Optimism. More information about the book can be f
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The deregulation boon
I was a week late getting to the print version of the story about the Brazilian tailings dam that collapsed, killing more than 150 people. I see online, it's an interactive feature, starting with a sh
Headlines that disappoint
The daily mail from LinkedIn inspires that title; they often succeed in a luring first line (aka "clickbait"), but what's on the other end has failed to deliver so often, I'm skipping the whole thing
Home again.
I had a great time in St. Louis with the St. Louis Woodworker's Guild. The weather seems to be a thing they've gotten used to as snow on the streets did nothing to deter attendance for the class. Unfo
Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018)—"Being 97": An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’
Just today I learn that the American philosopher Herbert Fingarette died last November. Fingarette taught a friend of mine and it was through him that I discovered something of Fingarette's work, part
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Este verano estoy en Funiversity, primer campus internacional de comunicación, educación y periodismo
El próximo julio, del 8 al 12, llevaremos a cabo en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona una experiencia innovadora: Funiversity, palabra que resulta de la unión de”fun” (divertido) y “university” y q
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The Power of “No”
An open mind is invaluable in trying to separate truth from lies. But at some point lies need to be treated differently than the truth. If we aren’t willing to say “no” to the lies, our speaking truth
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Harbor Me, by Jacqueline Woodson–and an apology
Black History Month day 13 First, the apology. Several years ago, when Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for Brown Girl Dreaming, Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemo
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Where there can be no words
Jane Ranney Rzepka I go for fierce landscapes every chance I get.