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Meditation for December Holiday Stress
A Meditation for December Holiday Stress May we let go, if only for this moment, of mentally juggling our to-do lists. May we put aside, just right now, any obsessions with planning and preparing....
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Reflections on Middle East: Not Making It Worse
Recently I’ve been reading many expressions of fear and anxiety in the social media universe. I’ve read reports that Americans are more on edge than they have been since 9/11. Although the media seems...
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Liberation through Sacrifice
I wonder what really happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem. He can’t have had that many followers traveling with him from Galilee. He might have had some followers in Jerusalem but I’d expect their...
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Climate Change … and You … and Us
Which way forward for our energy future? Do you remember the movie An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore? It came out ten years ago. Do you remember how scary the predictions were? Things haven’t gotten...
View ArticleRunning for the UUA Board!
I’m pleased to report that I have been nominated by the UUA Nominating Committee to run for the UUA Board. I hope you’ll consider voting for me. Here is a link to my campaign page! The post Running...
View ArticleLessons and Legacy
In the beginning of June before I retired, I read through my Annual Reports, starting back in 2000, all 24 of them. I enjoyed this delightful trip down memory lane. So many memorable events. So...
View ArticleGone (poem)
I’ve been contemplating Shinzen Young’s method to court enlightenment by focusing on the passing away dimension of phenomena. We are usually focused on the arising of objects in consciousness as they...
View ArticleOld Emails
I’ve collected a lot of files over the years, gigabytes of them. Over the years they have been backed up a number of times. Old of the collections that gets backed up a lot are emails. The email...
View ArticleThree-Month Meditation Retreat at IMS, Barre, MA
I’ll be at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA from September 12 to December 5 doing their yearly Three-month Meditation Retreat. If you really need to contact me for some very important...
View ArticleAvailability for Ministry
The exploration of my future has been my project after retiring from the First UU Society of Albany, New York in June. My wife Philomena and I had our celebration of retirement with a trip to see her...
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