A pilgrimage is much more than a simple trip. It is a journey that takes us to interesting places that we may or may not have been before. A pilgrimage entices us to go deeper within ourselves, even as we travel in outward ways. At its best, a pilgrimage challenges us to grow, offering the opportunity for spiritual insight.

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What can children’s stories tell us about how children and adults relate to each other in a particular culture? If we start with our own culture, we may be surprised by what we find hiding there. Indigenous worldviews differ from Colonial worldviews in many, many ways – but one of the most significant divergences appears in the approach to adult-child relationships and child rearing practices. Speaking from his own experience growing up in an Anishinaabe household, Caleb Seguin will use stories – both true and imaginary – to explore the core principals of Anishinaabe child rearing, examining concepts like reciprocity, autonomy, community responsibility, and more. Reflect on the lasting impact of Colonial violence in adult-child relationships for Indigenous people and White Settlers alike, and learn how a small shift in perspective can radically change the way we form and maintain relationships with the young people in our lives.

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It’s two days until elections, which could have huge implications nationally, state-wide, and locally. That’s always true, but the stakes seem higher this year. How can we handle waiting for an outcome?

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“…The end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started, / and know the place for the first time.” (T.S. Eliot) The Rev. Dan Warren, an Episcopalian, will explore whether Anglicans are also Unitarians, and suggest we have far more in common than those who cling to forms of doctrinal purity. He came to our first June service and liked us so much that he took up Herb’s invitation to come back and speak to us.

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Contained in this judgmental statement, really is perhaps the most important question anyone can be asked.  Just, How Do You Live with Yourself?  Really, how you the unique person you discover you are along the way gets along with the administrator of your life that is you is precious.  We will explore this most intimate and important of relationships.

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In a world where visual images can be so easily manipulated and manufactured, and where large portions of our country have rejected facts, how do we determine what’s real? (It’s undoubtedly true that some of the things you and I absolutely believe aren’t really ‘facts’ either, or won’t seem like ‘facts’ in the light of history). How do we live when we know our sources of facts might not be, well, factual?

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The mystical (and possibly Mythical) Taoist philosopher Lao Tse is credited with one of the most foundational documents of eastern philosophical and religious thought: The book of the Tao or Tao de Ching. In this presentation, we’ll get down to cases on the kind of life, and the kind of person, the kind of challenges this text implies.  Does the Tao still apply in the age of denial and manipulation?

Nancy Kimball, who is an active member of the UU Congregation of Glens Falls, has been licensed to rehabilitate injured birds and other small animals for many years. Most of them are released once they’re healed, but Nancy has several owls and other raptors that have become permanent residents due to injuries which are so severe that they can no longer survive in the wild. She’ll tell us about her work and she’ll bring a few birds with her (probably an adorable saw-whet owl and a kestrel). You’ll learn about a fascinating part of the ‘interdependent web of which we are a part’!

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