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Beltane
Join us to joyously celebrate Beltane, an ancient Celtic trading that brings community together to welcome the greening of the Earth back after the cold of winter. We will do a little drum trance to remember the ancient ways. If we are lucky we will once again dance the Maypole.
The Nature of Spiritual Life
Poetry Service: Personal Faith and Spirituality in Hard Times
Danielle Thierry is a member of MMUUF, where she’s active in the choir, religious education, and cares and concerns committee. Danielle is a lifelong writer and musician who often finds strength in words and music in hard times. She currently focuses much of her writing work on helping to make federal government benefit programs more accessible through clear language and people-centered design. She previously served as the community organizer and executive director of the Burlington Writers Workshop, co-founded Vermont’s community-led literary journal Mud Season Review, and has taught writing in community college, workshops, and other settings.
Ann Bonanno is a member of MMUUF, and has chaired the Sunday Service Committee for the past decade or so. Ann’s spirituality is based in the natural world and the connections between all living things, and she can often be found in the woods talking to the trees and any other being that catches her eye. Ann spends some time each day grateful for her community and the beautiful state of Vermont.
A Tribute to the Celebration of Holi
Finding Calm in the Midst of Chaos
Mary Kintner has an undergraduate degree in social welfare and nursing, and is a doctor of Chiropractic. She has been meditating and teaching yoga since the 1970s. Mary is coasting into retirement but still doing chiropractic, massage, teaching yoga and educating people about diet and nutrition. She loves to be outdoors and lives with her polydactyl cat, Polly.
What exactly happened to the UUA Principles and what do the new Values mean for our Fellowship?
Gratitude, Meditation & Movement: Finding focus when everything feels like too much!
Tending to Home in an Uncertain Time
MMUUF fellowship member Mike Sweeney will share his thoughts on what it means to have a strong sense of home, his experiences of losing and rebuilding a sense of home for himself and his family, and the importance of doing the human work in our spiritual and other local communities to tend to our collective home as a way to cultivate strength and protection during an uncertain time.