Alice Walker famously wrote, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” Walker’s words are a beautiful reminder that attention and gratitude go hand in hand. Indeed they are a perfect embodiment of the dominant understanding of attention: that it’s here to … Continue reading Paying Attention (March 2026)
To My Beloved UUFM Community, So many of us are not just aware of injustices occurring at the state, national and global level right now, but feel them very deeply, know or are people that are directly affected, and are struggling with overwhelmed nervous systems and burn out. Balancing activism, self-care and regulation, functioning in … Continue reading What’s Happening in RE – March 2026
This month, our shared theme has been embodying resilience. Resilience is often misunderstood as stoic endurance or quiet survival. However, within our tradition as Unitarian Universalists, resilience is far more alive. It is relational. It is creative. It is grounded in love. It is what allows us not only to withstand adversity, but to continue … Continue reading March Board Update
To My Beloved UUFM Community, January’s focus on the RE front was to wrap up the “creating safe and welcoming spaces” phase – inventorying, evaluating and establishing the physical resources and safety infrastructure that will provide foundational support to our RE rebuilding efforts. We made significant progress on the Nursery renovation, and had a productive … Continue reading What’s Happening in RE February 2026
When did we decide that resilience was a solo project? It’s not that we consciously chose to define it that way. It’s just what we were taught, from the time we were little right up to today: “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps”; “You’re stronger than you think.”; “If at first you don’t succeed, … Continue reading Embodying Resilience (February 2026)
Over the past month, we have come together to build our capacity for the spiritual practice of resistance; not resistance simply for the sake of opposition but rather as a faithful refusal to accept injustice, erasure, and harm as inevitable facts of life. January was marked by profound unrest locally and globally. We saw state-sanctioned … Continue reading February Board Update
I have been practicing the art of reframing toward gratitude in the last two months of 2025. While the frost on my windshield in the morning means I need more time to get the car ready to go, I am grateful for the few extra minutes of time to connect with Ruddy, Rio, and Ellie … Continue reading December/January Board Update
To my Beloved UUFM Community, SETTING THE STAGE: CREATING SAFE, WELCOMING SPACES The month of December has had particular momentum around our ongoing efforts to create safe and welcoming spaces for RE opportunities and programming. You may have seen the video update posted on our social media on December 3rd providing an overview of … Continue reading What’s Happening in RE December 2025/January 2026
Faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in [all of us]. Those who hope… can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. [It] … Continue reading Choosing Hope (December 2025)
To my beautiful UUFM community, As I continue to address safety needs and create and/or update accessible and welcoming spaces for RE programming in our building, the need for resource support from the UUFM community is becoming more pronounced. We entered this fiscal year with a particularly tight budget, so – in addition to me … Continue reading What’s Happening in RE November 2025
