nice to meet you, and may the Spirit of Life sustain you :) i'm fletcher!
i love thunderstorms, i dream of being a uu minister on the prairies, and i see northeast india in my dreams ❤︎
this is my langblr / studyblr / eventually gradblr! i don't post anything nsfw other than some swears here and there lmao so feel free to follow no matter your age. don't be hurt if you're quite a bit younger than me and i don't follow you back, it isn't personal!! also, don't expect things to be tagged much.... or at all ^^;
more of my info can be found below ⤵︎
age: twenty-eight
pronouns / gender: he/him/his (or ze/zem/zir if you're feeling spicy). i'm some sort of nonbinary transmasc or aporagender but honestly i'm not too worried about it. i've been on T since forever so i pass as a cis dude and idrc what people refer to me as.
sexuality / relationship status: t4t / queer / married
location: farm country, ontario. someday, i'll lead a uu fellowship in the prairies ❤︎
blog theme: langblr / studyblr / (hopefully) future gradblr
academia: hons. ba in english (3.8 GPA) ➜ ma in social justice and/or community development (going to apply for 2027) ➜ mdiv at meadville lombard ➜ maybe a phd in ????????
native language: canadian english
learning languages / languages i want to learn to semi-fluency:
✧ french (a1-a2)
✧ khasi (slowly)
languages i want to learn at least part of someday:
✧ cebuano
✧ tagalog
✧ plains cree
✧ innu-aimun
✧ inuktitut
✧ czech
✧ german
✧ hindi
✧ bengali
✧ punjabi
personal heroes:
✧ Hajom Kissor Singh
✧ Toribio Sabandija Quimada
✧ Norbert Čapek
✧ Forrest Church
✧ Sri Ramakrishna
personal dreams:
✧ pilgrimage to jowai in the khasi hills, meghalaya, india, to visit their uu churches and bask in the torrential downpours
✧ pilgrimage to dumaguete, negros oriental, philippines, to visit their uu churches and walk the oceanfront boulevard
✧ become a uu minister and serve a fellowship in the prairies
✧ author a book or web project on the history, polity & theology of uuism, particularly as it is practised in the khasi hills or on negros island
✧ speak at least one language fluently (or at least understandably) besides english
other:
✧ i love taylor swift, carly rae jepsen, and charlotte cardin ❤︎
✧ i really like country and bluegrass music
✧ i also really like music from all different countries!
✧ i love making friends from all different countries, too!!
✧ i am not even close to being a minister yet but have soooo many written sermons and sermon ideas ❤︎
✧ i have level one ASD
✧ i vastly prefer the cold to the heat, but many of the places i want to pilgrimage to are in hot and humid climates... oops!
✧ i've never seen the ocean or mountains, but i dream of seeing both!
Setting up for new member classes starting this Sunday at 1pm! #uu #UUism #religiouseducation #churchlife #tapestryoffaith #sundayschool #adultreligiouseducation (at Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside)
Here's my latest Inktober sketch drawing where I did some multitasking. While I was attending a Unitarian Universalist Sunday service this morning, I made a sketch of the church's flaming chalice.
Unitarian Universalists are not, by default, Christian. (UU grew out of 2 Christian denominations but no longer is a Christian faith.) Please do not tag stuff about UUs or dealing with UUism Christian unless the individual UU in question identifies as UU AND Christian, or it’s talking about Unitarian Universalism and Christianity both.
To do so would be like tagging Christian things “Jewish” because Christianity evolved out of Judaism.
(Note: just because a UU minister wears a clerical/clergy collar does NOT mean they are necessarily Christian as well.)
rules: spell out your url with song titles and tag ten people. i was tagged by @megabadbunny - thank you, friend!!
Someone Like You - Adele
Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam
All of Me - John Legend
The Long and Winding Road - the Beatles
Little Pistol - Mother Mother
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Landslide - Stevie Nicks
Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie
Eleanor Rigby - the Beatles
Après Moi - Regina Spektor
Nobody - Mitski
Delilah - Florence + The Machine
The Lady is a Tramp - Ella Fitzgerald
On Top of the World - Imagine Dragons
Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
Drops of Jupiter - Train
(also, shoutout to Gravity, which i don’t have a letter for but is probably my favorite song of all time)
uh, i tag @paperairplanesopenwindows, @bobbimorseisbisexual, @florchis, @theclaravoyant, @hurricane-euler, @saecookie, @a-s-u-n-flower, @chocolatequeennk (welcome back!), @nereb-and-dungalef (challenge mode: non english songs (although i don’t know how that would work with cyrillic?)), and whoever else wants to do this!
I'm still very new to my spiritual journey, but last time I went to church, I noticed the woman ahead of me had a journal with her! And I found that really inspiring so I decided to start one too!
The odd part is, I want it to be a specifically spiritual journal that mixes elements of Christian devotionals and Book of Shadows'. Does anyone have any ideas about how to do that?
The tough part is is that I'm not a very diety centric person and id rather not just be copying information from internet articles about tarot methods or crystal properties.
I'd rather it be a more serialized summary journal of services, prayers, and thoughts w/ other notes throughout.
Does anyone have any inspiration or guides that could maybe help me with formatting and ideas?
