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Getting ready for thanksgiving with the family like:

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Throw back Monday to when I went to D.C. on Earth Day and marched my ass in the rain for Bill Nye and SCIENCE, yo.

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I went to church today.

It has been perhaps 2 years since my last visit. I remember when they opened in person services when we started opening up after the hard pandemic. Hybrid services where they broadcast on zoom as well as allowing attendance on the outside patio.

They're still broadcasting their services on zoom, actually. And if you need a liberal church service and can't get to one in person, at this point I would recommend their Zoom service.

Exhale.

I knew I needed community. I knew I needed to really be with other people seeking hope while living in uncertainty.

The service had lovely live music. Margaret and Kristoph, on harp (!) and guitar 🎸🎶 played 2 lovely Irish tunes (one by O'Carolan) and one Welsh traditional song. The pianist, Veronika, was the kind of support that is so good at their job you can almost ignore that they're doing the job. 👏.

The choir was... Fine. After being IN the choir at my UU church in Concord/Walnut Creek, singing with friends, I have strong opinions about choral music selections, and today was fine.

That's okay though! Because between the hymnbook selections we all got to sing along with (new music! 😁🎶 YAY🎶and also 😳) and the closing piece, an Acapella where we all sang along and the chorus was "never turning back/never turning back" , the music was satisfying.

Needed that. Didn't realize how much.

And Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern didn't pull any punches. She was vulnerable, worried, real, and hopeful. Honest too, that the USA and all of us are facing uncertainty about the future. Including her!

She told us about running a vigil with the other church members on Wednesday night. For all the folks that needed or wanted to be in community after we all learned what's coming.

And she actually owned up to, from the pulpit, how her initial reaction to knowing they were running a vigil, was to say to herself, "I don't want to adult. I want to stay here under the blankets, and maybe invite my cat underneath with me." #relatable

She brought us into the sermon with a quote from Terry Pratchett. From the night watch. I'll need to go look up what that passage was, because I wanted to write it down so I could put it on the wall and see it every day.

Like, that's the kind of church it is. With an opening quotation from Terry Pratchett, and reading passages from Howard Zinn, and telling the truth about awful people that feel emboldened again now.

But the reassuring message is, though there are awful things happening, you are not alone, and you are not powerless. We are here, and that's what we're here FOR.

Here's the benediction, that we held hands at the end and spoke together:

Go out into the world in peace

Be of good courage

Hold fast to what is good

Return no one evil for evil

Strengthen the faint-hearted

Support the weak

Help the suffering

Rejoice in beauty

Speak love with word and deed

Honor all beings.

I'll be putting this service in my calendar and trying to attend regularly. I need to develop trust with them, let them get to know me.

But the community is there, welcoming and kind. And despite my grief and anger about the prospective shit storm of the next four years, I have a plan.

Nucleate. Build, grow, or join community

Help where I can, one place at a time.

Rest often in the company of loved ones

Make art, often as possible.

A work in progress this plan. As I make art, it helps the pain to live outside my body, and lets me develop hope.

(where's that wonderful hashtag poem and post, "hope is a practice, hope is a skill..." Where some wonderful person selected Dr Seuss images for each hashtag ...)

Okay, thanks for listening. And speaking of resting with my loved ones, I owe my 84 year old mother a call.

Bye for now, beloveds.

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...dump the trump...

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Really hoping the fact that I'm getting facebook-style ads for AI generated truck stop shirts spouting pro-gun, 'Murica + Jesus rhetoric is a sick April Fool's joke and not indicative of some greater trend in Tumblr's userbase...