The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. DURING TODAY'S SESSION . . ....

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect. Anonymous DURING TODAY'S SESSION . . . We started assembling the photo-documentary display....

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss DURING TODAY'S SESSION . . . We checked in about our project. The next session is one that should not be missed because we will be putting together the photo-documentary project....

American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges....

Eating together is important family time; it validates the importance in family and offers good socialization, which is very important. - Gale Mills DURING TODAY'S SESSION... We looked at family life through a single lens: that of food. We explored this topic with a continuum game, skits, and...

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. - Simone de Beauvoir DURING TODAY'S SESSION . . . We talked about points of view and how that translates into photographing families....

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer DURING TODAY’S SESSION . . . We talked about the work that is involved in being part of a family. We wrote job descriptions for each family member. EXPLORE THE TOPIC TOGETHER: TALK ABOUT . . . Now that...

. . . the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:He approached the first and asked, "What are you doing?"Clearly irritated, the first man responded, "What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks!"He then walked over to the second bricklayer and...

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people—to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual. - Nickolas Muray DURING TODAY'S SESSION . . ....

Family life is full of major and minor crises—the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce—and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's...

According to reports from the Census Bureau, a majority of all households in the nation are now headed by unmarried adults. There are now more one-person households (28.7 million) than there are households containing married couples with minor children (24.1 million)....

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard DURING TODAY'S SESSION . . . We found out about the activities that are a part of Families, including the...

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. IN TODAY'S SESSION... participants celebrated learning all seven Unitarian Universalist Principles and heard about a Universalist woman, Clara Barton, who lived the UU Principles....

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. — Wendell Berry, 20th-century American poet and essayist IN TODAY'S SESSION... the participants learned about the...

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. — Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States IN TODAY'S SESSION... the participants learned about the...

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. — Dorothea Dix, 19th-century reformer and Unitarian IN TODAY'S SESSION... participants learned how the sixth Principle applied to the life of Unitarian social reformer, Dorothea Dix.

We covenant to affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part. — Unitarian Universalist Association Seventh Principle Watch the three-part N… television series on human evolution and explore the website for updated information. Both the Hebrew...

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 20th-century First Lady of the United States, in a 1951 radio broadcast IN TODAY'S SESSION... the group heard a Buddhist story, "Supriya's Bowl," about a...

Despair? Did someone say despair was a question in the world? Well, then listen to the sons of those who have known little else if you wish to know the resiliency of this thing you would so quickly resign to mythhood, this thing called the human spirit. — Lorraine Hansberry (1930 — 1965),...

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank, in her diary, published in 1952 IN TODAY'S SESSION......