When you clearly don’t intend to do anything to make amends: HTTP://WWW.DAILYKOS.COM/STORY/2012/02/03/1061450/-LAZY-MEDIA-REPORTS-KOMEN-FOUNDATION-DECISION-AS-REVERSAL-IT-ISNT?VIA=BLOG_1 Hey world. When you “apologize” it is supposed to mean that you feel remorse, and that you would like to make amends. Not that you’re scared people are angry and you want them to stop being angry. *sigh*
Reflections on Elie Wiesel’s Night
Listening to Elie Wiesel’s Night has rocked me deeply…I think for the first time in my life listening to such horror, such pain, my mind imagined it in a personal way…the experience has been profoundly painful. Just as a listener, I am humbled to think anyone endured such an experience.…
Emma the Dog: Hey People…please be kind and excellent.
I have a brief story to tell. Last night some kids in our neighborhood found a beautiful little chihuahua wandering the streets…they actually founds its owner. The owner didn’t want it because of a new lease, left her door open, and when the animal got out, decided not to look…
Hey Mom! Peace on Earth…?
Hey mom! Happy Mother’s Day! Would you like some controversial thought today? Because that’s what I got you… I dedicate this blog post to you mom, with a shout-out to Rev. Lora Brandis, Consulting Minister at South Valley Unitarian Universalist (SVUUS) and Pocatello Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (PUUF), another mom who…
RLLS: Prophetic Voice
Our Prophetic Voice is not a voice that speaks the future, it is our voice which speaks truth; or at least our voice which speaks our truth, and in particular, the voice that speaks truth to power. This is a short post, because well, its been a long week, and…
RLLS: Building Beloved Community
Beloved Community. “Take care of the people, the all-mighty God can take care of himself.” – Kurt Vonnegut Day 4, or really, Day 3 of classes here are RLLS. There was again, a lot of ground today; what stuck with me is that to create our community, our beloved community…
RLLS: Our Covenantal Faith
Covered an amazing amount of ground today; covenantal faith, mission, vision, Universalist history, Unitarian history and small group discussion. Literally some 14 hours of dialog, music and worship. What stood out the most? Even though today was about mission, the importance of our covenants to our faith was what stuck…
RLLS: Gathering
First night at RLLS (Russell Lockwood Leadership School) tonight; we met, did introductions, an ice-breaker name game where everyone added an adjective to their name (there are almost 40 participants so that took a while and was much, much harder than it sounds), broke down into Covenant Groups then back…
Pioneers of Freedom
I read an interesting quote today about Prop 8 from its proponents, Protect Marriage (actually their counsel said this): “For our opponents to say, as they have repeatedly, that there is no rational reason for limiting marriage to a man and a woman except for animus and bigotry is to…
Is Everything Possible?
One of my favorite songs is “Everything Possible” by Fred Small. Of course, we cannot be certain what an artist means by the lyrics of a song, I think that is part of the magic; a good song speaks to each of us as individuals. This past June, I had…