Posted by Tim on May 16, 2023
Your obituary is often where a summary description of your life is found. That description of your legacy may rest in the hands of your survivors or you may have written it before passing on. How would you like to be remembered or how might others remember you?
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Posted by Tim on April 30, 2023
This is about a non-profit recovery center that provides a safe, friendly, fun, and substance free environment. All people in recovery, and their family and friends, can meet here for recovery support, meetings, social activities, recovery coaching, education, and advocacy. The Turning Point Center respects all paths to recovery.
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Posted by Tim on April 23, 2023
This is a combination Easter/Earth Day sermon that Rebecca wrote for a congregation in Austin, TX. Rebecca wrestles with the spiritual wound that is climate change, considering themes of death and rebirth, despair and hope, freezing and fecundity, brevity and eternity. Human behavior causes environmental destruction, yet humans are part of and subject to nature. Is it too audacious to speak of redemption?
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Posted by Tim on April 19, 2023
We live surrounded by textiles, and we live surrounded by wear and tear. Things come apart, from seams to hearts to communities. Bringing together threads of history, community, practicality and spirituality, we weave an interdependent web to help mend ourselves and our world.
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Posted by Tim on April 11, 2023
“Hope is the thing with feathers/ that perches in the soul/ and sings the song without the words/ and never stops at all” — poem by Emily Dickinson. What are symbols of rebirth and renewal for you? Longer days? New leaves? Flowers? Recovering from an illness? Bring something if you like that serves as a reminder to you of hope and rebirth and renewal.
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Posted by Tim on March 24, 2023
Old age comes with the fragile ecstasy of being alive; it need not be the tragedy of life.
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Posted by Tim on March 15, 2023
What is (or should be) the purpose of education? My talk will explore this question as it relates to higher education in general and also more specifically within the context of the merger of Castleton University, Vermont Technical College, and Northern Vermont University (Johnson and Lyndon) into a single entity to be called Vermont State University.
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Posted by Tim on February 20, 2023
We assume that our system for selecting a president is the only way, even though the process is fraught with problems which can reap results that are real humdingers! Some Unitarians and Universalists from our past would have made excellent presidents – (I can dream) – so how can we ensure that this most powerful of jobs is filled by such people of competence, capability, and compassion? Come explore ideas of justice and hope for our future through our own UU heroic history, and by some daring presidential dreaming.
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