I feel so old and out of it; some friends have told me that what I’m doing every week here is really “blogging.” Is that true?

I hope you all saw my Friday email invite to record the “congregational part” for our 1st UUSS virtual choir song. All you need is earphones to hear my master track, and a recording device to sing “a capella” into. Don’t let my track be audible on your track (or we’ll be off track! lol!) I hope to have it ready for Irina’s or my “sound mixer” by Halloween. Just send it via email to me.

Hoping you experienced Rev. Lucy’s powerful Native / indigenous people’s message a week ago. Linked to that — I’m starting my first wellspring Wednesday this week, and am putting a very short youtube from that short class on Native American spirituality here for you. I use this because these Plains tribal fellows are @ the age of my (former) high school students. (I love that guy’s T-shirt!) They don’t look stereotypically “Indian” (that’s part of my point), but hear their song. Translation:Creator, Hear me. I pray to you in a humble way

I have no spiritual moment per se, but when I was grieving the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died of the same pancreatic cancer that took my dad long ago, I realized that we DON’T have any control over when anyone leaves this earth, be they family, friends, politicians, presidents, judges – whomever. But we DO have control over what we do (or don’t do): vote, speak, write, pray, care, share, show up, act. . .

And for all you Disney movie fans in this time of Covid, I bring you very fun, cleverly devised lyrics to a song from “Beauty and the Beast”

Namaste

Keith