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Before I moved to northern New Mexico, I faithfully attended the chapter retreats of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association. I always looked forward to those weekends: to the collegiality, the learning, the support and affirmation. Yet for me, the most moving moment occurred when we...Curriculum | February 3, 2016 | From From the High Hill -
From the High Hill was made possible through the generosity of the Unitarian Universalist Funding Program, the Unitarian Sunday School Society, and the Unitarian Congregation of Taos. I am especially grateful to the first group of High Hill participants for their commitment and enthusiasm, and...Curriculum | February 3, 2016 | From From the High Hill
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February 24, 2015 | From From the High Hill
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February 24, 2015 | From From the High Hill
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A congregational ceremony is a wonderful thing! When a congregation honors its elders by public and celebratory recognition of the years of life and service that have been given they give to themselves as well. Begin by consulting with your minister or worship committee about this....February 24, 2015 | From From the High Hill
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You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. — Florida Scott-Maxwell, 20th-century writer, feminist, and Jungian analyst Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing...February 24, 2015 | From From the High Hill
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February 24, 2015 | From From the High Hill
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives, Make of our lives a study... — Adrienne Rich, poet...February 24, 2015 | From From the High Hill
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There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a [person], a town, a building or a wilderness... The search we make for this quality, in our own lives, is the central search of any person, and the crux of any individual person's story....February 24, 2015 | From From the High Hill
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Date Name Address City, State, Zip Dear [participant’s first name], Welcome to our From the High Hill group workshop, and congratulations! You will participate in an exciting and introspective process that will inform and support you as you rediscover your life and write your Odyssey. You will be...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Prelude Have musicians play a medley from the songs that will be sung. Welcome and Announcements Lighting the Chalice Have the group say in unison Reading 683 in Singing the Living Tradition, "Be Ours a Religion" by Theodore Parker....December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Evaluations help us know how to do it better next time—what worked and what didn’t work well, and why. And, they provide feedback about our success as a facilitator. Here are three methods for evaluating your program: Create a numerical assessment. Ask participants to rank, by specified numbers,...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Working alone or with one other person can be an interesting and effective way to engage with the High Hill program. Collaborating with another person, particularly if you live in an area that does not have a Unitarian Universalist congregation, can be a wider and more affirming experience than...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Become closer to my sister. Learn Spanish. Plan one last trip to Kentucky. Write one great poem. Talk to my Uncle Vern. Hold an historical gathering with my family, and travel to where each of us was born. Expand my photography. I want a great body. Get back to painting. Research my father’s...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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“The Layers”. Copyright (C) 1978 by Stanley Kunitz, from THE COLLECTED POEMS by Stanley Kunitz. Used by permission of W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. Stanley Kunitz was a 20th/21st- century American poet, named American Poet Laureate in 2000. I have walked through many lives, Some of them my own,...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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Date Name Address City, state, zip Dear [use first name], Congratulations! And welcome to our High Hill group!...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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I like the quote from Mary Oliver's poem, "The Summer Day:" Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life? I'm not afraid to ask that question and not vague about my answer....December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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(My mom and dad) met at Edison High School in Minneapolis. I think their lockers were near one another. After high school, Dad joined Roosevelt's CCC, cut timber and built roads in northern Minnesota, and joined the Marine Corps in 1939. He wrote......December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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On a cold sunny day the year 1944, a child was pulled into the world by an intoxicated Dr. Sweet in the town of Ritzville in the state of Washington... the first ten years were spent living on a farm seven-and-one-half miles from town. The house was old, but mom made it comfortable and it was...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill
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I was born into a beautiful old house, four stories if you counted the full basement and attic, which I did. There were beveled glass French doors at the entrance to the living area, a playroom/music room, a dining room, huge kitchen, three large bedrooms upstairs, a walk-through coat closet, and...December 10, 2011 | From From the High Hill