While many of our friends are spending the weekend in Council Grove at the Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers gathering, we are blessed with a visit from charlee huffman, Kaw Nation Citizen. She will bring her perspective to “challenge” how we think about wisdom and community. Community, she says, is always about love. Without love, we cannot be a community. Without love, we are individuals going in our own directions alone, but with love, we can be there for each other. This is wisdom.

Speaker bio:

Diligently searching for linguistic intersections and a four-way go, c is working towards articulating the lightning in the brain. The methodology involved in invoking this phenomenon requires sitting and staring for hours at a time, walks with the dog and naps. A child of diaspora, she taught Comparative Religion with a focus on religion and social justice for ten years at Hunter College in NYC before working as language director on a language revitalization grant for the Kaw Nation in Oklahoma for a year and a half. She now lives in the foothills of the Big Rocky Mountains, in the traditional lands of the Cheyenne and Ute, in the shadow of the shining mountain, writing and nursing aching neurons, encouraging intersectional advocacy with a particular focus on dis/ability and Indigenous issues. Also, cooking sometimes happens, with do skúwe. She has an MFA from the City University of New York and an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary. She is a poet and a theologian.

Join us in-person on Zeandale Rd or email office@uufm.net for the Zoom link.