Hummingbird: A True Story in Two Parts (II)

Part II: We Do Not Fear Change, But We Do Feel Loss (Click here for Part....


Hummingbird: A True Story in Two Parts (I)

Part I: Wide Open Before the Animal Blessing worship began, before we....


I [heart] Northampton: An Homage

I love my small city. I have loved raising my kids here. I love my spiritual communities: my UU home congregation, my Buddhist sangha, my little basically non-denominational church in the hills. I love the school communities that helped grow my kids....


The Mindfulness of Hanging Laundry

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Making a Joyful Noise: Bridging at First Parish

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Memorial Day 2015: Peace Pagoda

More often than not, I end up spending some part of Memorial Day weekend at the New England Peace Pagoda. It started as a way to hangout with a dear friend and then turned into an irregular habit and I now consider it the thing I do for Memorial....


On Not Waiting to be the Hummingbird (sermon)

On Not Waiting to be the Hummingbird: The Life and Death of Lee....


Mother's Day Proclamation in the Shadow of #BaltimoreUprising

Mother’s Day is upon us. In Unitarian Universalist congregations, Mother’s....


A Litany of Blessings (for Tori Jameson)

(At my current seminary, Andover Newton Theological School, it is tradition that at the last UU worship before graduation, we recognize those of us who are graduating.  Each graduating senior is blessed by someone else.  My friend asked me if I would....


Prayer for This Day – May 3, 2015

For church this morning at First Parish Church of Groton, I wrote the pastoral....