What is a Third Place? Adapted from https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/third-places-true-citizen-spaces The third place is not home and not work, but instead one of the physical settings that have throughout history encouraged a sense of warmth, conviviality, and that special kind of human sustenance we call community. These settings include cafés, taverns, libraries and hair salons, where people from …
The Soul Matters theme for June is Freedom “I try to understand why trans folx are so terrifying to people, why we are seen as such a threat. And ultimately, I think the scariest thing we represent is possibility and freedom.We have resisted the imposition of overly-determined stories of our …
The Soul Matters theme for June is Freedom.Here is a reflection exercise on that topic. Read through the list of questions 2-3 times until one question sticks out for you and captures your attention or until one of the questions “shimmers.”Then reflect on that question using one or all of …
Submissions for the UU Musings section are welcome. Send essays, poems, songs or other writings to annleake001@gmail.com. These can be original works or pieces by other authors that you enjoy and want to share with our community.
We are following the Soul Matters curriculum this year. May’s theme is IMAGINATION. Imagination’s great gift is “improvement”. At least that is what we’re taught. Its deep magic lies in the way it can reshape our reality. We are urged to imagine the world we dream of. A world with more justice. More peace. More love. …
We are following the Soul Matters curriculum this year. April’s theme is JOY. Submissions for the UU Musings section are welcome. Send essays, poems, songs or other writings to annleake001@gmail.com. These can be original works or pieces by other authors that you enjoy and want to share with our community.
Eleanor Rice was the minister at UUSRF in the 1990s and early 2000s. This excerpt is from the March 2003 UUSRF newsletter when the US was contemplating a war with Iraq. Its message is still relevant. Think Eternally, Live Now This is such an uncertain time. I don’t know what the situation will be by …
WE BELONG TOGETHERDriving one day in the city, I sawin a library window a sign reading WE BELONG TOGETHER. A warm hand, a hand of human language, reached upto touch my heart. It was as if some split-offlost side of myself had spoken. What Eros in the story those three words tell. Imagine if we took …
