At last, we have the results of the Search Survey crunched, categorized, and ready for your perusal. Thank you to everyone who took time to offer important feedback and information to the Search Committee. Your answers were invaluable as we prepared the congregational record, which we submitted to UUA Transitions for approval last week!
Denee M offered this reading at our Nov. 15 meeting, and we thought it appropriate to share with you here. From Starhawk:
We are all longing to go home to some place
we have never been—a place half-remembered and half-envisioned
we can only catch glimpses of from time to time.
Community.
Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion
without having the words catch in our throats.
Somewhere a circle of hands
will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter,
voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.
Community means strength
that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done.
Arms to hold us when we falter.
A circle of healing.
A circle of friends.
Someplace where we can be free.
—from Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics (Beacon Press)