April’s Town Hall meeting was filled with creative ideas and wonderful feedback. If you have not taken the Congregational Survey, we ask you to fill it out so we will have a better idea of how we can better serve those who are ready to return and those who are not. This past year has […]
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Thank you to all who were able to chip in for our House & Grounds Spring Clean Up Day this past Saturday at SUUS! The weather was perfect and we had a wonderful turnout. The team worked hard and much was accomplished. Together we mulched gardens, trimmed limbs and shrubs, raked and removed debris, mended a broken
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Aibohphobia Does the title of this week’s column cause your brow to furrow? Unfamiliar with the word, did you search through a dictionary looking for its meaning, only to not find it listed? Perhaps, you might then have posited, it is a new term being tossed around that some are trying to worm into general
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Let us gather around stories and songs of mothers and mothering. Let us honor the spirit of caring at the heart of this role, a role played in many ways by those who brought us into this world, by those who foster new life and growth, and by the great Mother Earth that sustains all
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In May, we will share our plate with Sunrise Movement Connecticut, which is part of a non-profit organization whose membership spans many colors and creeds, from all parts of the country. They are dedicated to stopping climate change, principally through a Green New Deal, and creating millions of good-paying jobs in the process. All members
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In March, the Board of Trustees announced the formation of an Endowment Review Project (ERP), the purpose which is to examine and assess the Endowment bylaws and recommend revisions. A call went out for Congregation volunteers to be part of this initiative. We are happy to announce that Jennifer Farmer-Etzel and Benna Lehrer answered the
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This Will Stimulate You! By now, all of us should have received the third stimulus check, and perhaps you still have the money from the first two stimulus checks. Like so many others, you’re just not certain what to do with the money. Sure, it’s a temptation to spend it frivolously on some silliness such
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Earth Day resources shared during our worship service: Doug Tallamy, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard, Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2019. (Available in hard-cover, paperback and Kindle formats) And this website, which concentrates on plants native to southeastern PA, where Tallamy lives: http://backyardsfornature.org/?tag=doug-tallamy https://www.audubon.org/native-plants/search?zipcode=06443. Plants native to the area from the
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