The Christmas Day service at First UU ("It's the Most Jewiful Time of the Year") included a dramatic reading of Lemony Snicket's The Latke that Couldn't Stop Screaming, led by the sabbatical minister with audience participation (congregants waving their arms and going "aaaaah!" on cue); a Dr Who reference (Rabbi Rami: I was hoping to watch the ( Read more... )

People gathered from near and far,
In small groups and large,
To share their fears and grief
And the darkness in their hearts.

A year like no other, this was,
Testing us beyond what we'd ever imagined.
Day after day, week after week,
We found ourselves growing
And becoming sturdy
Because there was no other choice.
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Quantum bunnies: My villanelle "Schrodinger's Top Hat" was selected as a finalist in the latest Goodreads poetry group contest; voting is open through April 1. (Thanks to everyone who's already promoted and/or voted!) There have been some very nice comments about both my poem and the whole shortlist; I was especially delighted to read that it moved ( Read more... )

Michelle Kwan married Clay Pell a few days ago at a Unitarian church. I don't know if either Kwan or Pell are themselves Unitarian, and it doesn't matter -- except, you know, it's nonetheless kind of cool to glimpse a connection.

While surfing around a little for more on the Kwan-Pell story, I landed at a British Unitarian page on Kate Middleton' ( Read more... )

Charlotte, NC, has an awesome park called The Green, across from its convention center. It includes signs in tribute to authors...


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[Subject line from All Creatures Now, a standard from my madrigal-warbling days. Now is the month of maying and all that.]

A pawful of notes:
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Rev. JD Benson at First Parish Brewster calls out to those who feel the world closing in [video].

On a far more flippant note: xkcd's updated map of the blogosphere. Hee!

This entry was originally posted at http://bronze-ribbons.dreamwidth.org/339789.html. I see comments at DW, IJ, and LJ (when notifications are working, anyway), but not on ( Read more... )

So, I was reading through parts of the Fall 2009 UU World over dinner, when I came across this:


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