What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. — Kurt Vonnegut IN TODAY'S SESSION... we discussed communities. We identified the communities to which we...

I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to the future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind. — May...

We are here that we might have life and have it more abundantly, so that we might share it with others. Come, let us join together as a generous people. — John. C. Morgan IN TODAY'S SESSION... we explored sharing as a way to be UU every day. We talked about UU flower, water, and bread communion...

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. — Leo F. Buscaglia IN TODAY'S SESSION......

I am not going to question your opinions. I am not going to meddle with your belief. I am not going to dictate to you mine. All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you...

What is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. — Toni Cade Bambara, 20th-century African American author and activist IN TODAY'S SESSION... we said that, as UUs, we are in a lifelong process of building our faith....

Our leadership is just ourself. — Claudette Colvin, civil rights activist A community is like a ship: everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. — Henrik Ibsen, playwright IN TODAY'S SESSION... we said that, as Unitarian Universalists, we provide leadership and service to our congregation...

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. — Wangari Maathai, Nobel Prize winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP......

Come back with me into a story we all share, a story whose rhythm beats in us still. The story belongs to each of us and to all of us, like the beat of [a] drum, like the heartbeat of our living universe. — Joanna Macy, in Thinking Like a Mountain IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP... we completed the Council...

Cut down the forest of desire, not the forest of trees. — The Buddha, Dhammapada 283 IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP ... we prepared for the Council Among the Trees ritual, which continues in Workshop 7. HOMEWORK: Take time each day to reflect on the being your mask represents....

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. —Ogden Nash, American poet, "Song of the Open Road" (1933) IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP ... we viewed a visual essay by Franke James called "What Can One Person Do?" We...

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP... we continued to explore the many benefits of trees for other creatures and plants in the web of life with a "Helping Tree Metaphors" activity, and we learned the popular "Rainforest Song" by Unitarian...

To be poor and be without trees is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype IN TODAY'S...

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. — Chinese proverb IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP ... we explored our relationship to trees and heard a story about the interdependence of the ancient forest. We affirmed the value—for ourselves and for the group—of treating each...

Wisdom begins in wonder. — Socrates, Greek philosopher IN TODAY'S SESSION... we celebrated our time together with an outdoor Wonder Walk. We used our senses and our "wonder skills" of slowing down, paying attention, and observing nature. We talked about the quote from Socrates and what it means.

Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes IN TODAY'S SESSION... The final session of our Creating Home curriculum...

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees... We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind....

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle...

People overestimate the pleasure they'll get from having more stuff. This does not apply to new rose bushes, crayons, or yarn stashes. — Dr. Sun Wolf IN TODAY'S SESSION... we learned about the 5 Rs: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot. We heard the story "Enough Stuff," which introduced the...

We have to celebrate, because this brother of yours …he was lost and has been found. – Christian scripture, Luke 15:32 IN TODAY’S SESSION… Today we used a version of the Prodigal Son story from Christian scripture as a way of focusing on the ways we move away from and back into our homes.