Hello all of you creative VIUFers. It’s time for another edition of “Outside the Box”. You can use the VIUF theme for December “Opening to Joy” for your inspiration or anything you wish. Please send your contributions in the form of your own poetry or prose to or to Outside the Box, c/o VIUF, P.O. Box … Continue reading Call for poetry – Outside the Box
We will be hosting the December 26th service, “Opening to Joy.” We want you to share a “little” joy in one sentence, as part of our service. We will feature you on screen, in a pre-arranged order. We encourage you to consider little joys you have been open to and cherished. Some examples: hearing the … Continue reading The Transforming Mystery and Wonder team needs your help!
Join the National Council of Churches and faith communities around the country in supporting HR-40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act. Read and sign onto a letter from faith groups urging Congress to support HR-40. The Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice signed the letter. Follow the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations … Continue reading Reparations News
The theme for December is Opening to Joy. Some good ideas and resources here
The Book Club discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants will be held at the end of service on Dec. 5th, (not Nov. 28th, as several of us will be out-of-town for Thanksgiving.) This gives you all one more week to read this wonderful book! Also, please text your suggestions for a … Continue reading Book Club Change of Date
Dear Friends. My friend Paula Palmer has put together a list of resources that can help us navigate through some of these confounding “celebrations.” Kim On Thanksgiving Giving thanks is at the heart of all wisdom and spiritual traditions, and it’s good for us to be reminded of this each November. The Thanksgiving holiday is problematic … Continue reading On Thanksgiving
Registration is Now Open. >> https://friendspeaceteams.org/trr-workshop-january-2022/ Saturday, January 22, 2022. 1-3 pm Pacific Standard Time
Nov. 26,27, 28 and Dec. 4, 5th. 10am – 3 pm Littlest Bird Farm 15624 115th Av SW Neighborhood Artists will sell their wares in the barn. Make a swag for yourself or someone else. Rummage Sale benefitting Afghan resettlement efforts: Bring your good stuff for sale: No clothes, linens, shoes, or furniture. Small gift … Continue reading Open Barn Open Farm Open Studio
Save the Date on your new 2022 Calendar: Seabeck. Friday 4:00 pm August 19 – Sunday August 21 1:00 pm More details to follow this spring. 13395 Lagoon Dr NW. Seabeck, WA. 98380 Please volunteer to help Pamela Godt plan this wonderful event. I haven’t planned this before and need all the help I can … Continue reading Save the Date: Seabeck
Last week, 80 Vashon residents participated in a zoom presentation by the Civic Reparations Project. The Project stated that reparations are not donations; they are an essential part of the foundation for acknowledging and addressing our country’s history of “stealing lives, labor, land, resources and freedoms from Native Americans and African-Americans.” We can help build … Continue reading Reparations
