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Pleasant
Valley Press The newsletter of the
Unitarian Fellowship of January
15th, 2008 v 49, no 18 |
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by Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. Philanthropy
is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook
the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Goal Quotes Frank Lloyd Wright: I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. Helen Keller: I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Herb Cohen: If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost. John Dewey: Arriving at one point is the starting point to another. John F. Kennedy: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. Michelangelo: The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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On Sundays Sunday,
January 20th 10:45 a.m. Program: MUSIC FOR ALL. We will present a varied musical program, including music performed on several instruments by both young and old. This will be a chance to showcase some of the many talents we have within our Fellowship community. Sunday,
January 27th 10:45 a.m. Program: 10:45AM January 27: In another of the "My Last Lecture" series, Elizabeth Schultz will present "On the Margin of the Ensuing Scene and In Full Sight of It". Professor Schultz retired in 2001 from the University of Kansas, where she was the Chancellor's Club Teaching Professor in the English Department. The author of "Unpainted to the Last: Moby Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art" (1995), "Shoreline: Seasons at the Lake" (2001), and "Conversations: Art into Poetry at the Spencer Museum of Art" (2006), she has published extensively in the fields of nineteenth-century American fiction, American women's writing, African American fiction and autobiography, and Japanese culture. A founder of the Melville Society Cultural Project in New Bedford, MA, she has curated several exhibitions related to Melville and the arts, and has co-edited a collection of essays on Melville and women. In retirement, she continues to write and publish poetry and essays on nature for the Kansas Land Trust's newsletter. She is on the Board of Directors of the Lawrence Arts Center and the Clerk of the Oread Friends Meeting. Committee
Chairs' Roundtable Annual
Fellowship Auction Here is the schedule/format:
All members are urged to place the date, Saturday, March 29, and time, 4:00-7:30 p.m., on their calendars and to invite friends to come along. Items up for auction, which have in the past ranged from lawnmowers, furniture, objects d'art, vintage automobiles, services--such as a gourmet dinner for eight, a week's occupancy of a holiday home, yard work, computer debugging--and all the other imaginative offerings of which our membership is capable, are to made known via email or telephone call to one of the members of the Fundraising Committee by Monday, March 24th (so that a catalog can be prepared) and the item or, in the case of a service up for auction, a brief description, must be submitted to the Committee or brought to the Fellowship no later than Saturday morning, March 29th We wish to thank in advance all of those who contribute items for the auction and for their willingness to help with what is an important component of the Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence operating budget. We look forward to a most successful auction! ~Della Hadley, Carol Eades Delnevo, and Ted Wilson, Chair Elementary
OWL Training Success! OWL
- Our Whole Lives JUST
FOOD It is that time again! Let's fill the Checkers food cart from our contributions. The community partners continue planning with a focus on: Food Gathering, Community Education, Marketing, Fund-Raising and Organizational Needs. The major focus of the JUST FOOD partners continues to be supplying food pantries with nonperishable food items, and more needs to be done. Plans continue to develop addressing the longer range needs for the community. Checkers and Hy-Vee have generously assisted in promoting JUST FOOD collections enabling food purchases from the Kansas City warehouse. The December Checkers program produced less than anticipated. Hy-Vee's program began this past week. Volunteers are needed to hand out information cards to shoppers. For information on volunteering contact ECKAN. Plans are underway for a community forum on hunger the end of March or April. We'll keep you posted on developments. For now let's turn out for another Fellowship Gathering for JUST FOOD this coming Sunday. ~Forrest Swall, the Social Action Committee Topeka
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