Illustration by Maya Baron	Pleasant Valley Press The newsletter of the Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence, KS A Welcoming Congregation January 22nd, 2008 v 49, no 19
Recycle and raise money for the Fellowship at the same time! It’s easy! Just recycle your paper at the Fellowship; put it in the yellow dumpster at the end of the parking lot. We get $25 for every ton of paper we collect! Keep it coming and tell your friends! Let us "live in harmony with the rhythms of nature" consistent with the 7th UU Principle. What can go in the dumpster? any kind of paper - office, colored, construction...  card stock - posterboard, note cards, tag board...  anything glossy - magazines, catalogues, inserts...  newspapers  staples are okay  brown paper bags  shredded paper in plastic bags and tied off What can't go in... spiral rings on notebooks  anything that isn't paper - plastic, aluminum, foam core, trash, paper clips anything related to food - cups, plates, napkins, to-go containers...  phone books  books (paperback or hard back)  CARDBOARD! - corrugated or chip board (cereal boxes) Ministerial Office Hours Consulting Minister Jill Jarvis has resumed her regular office hours, and will be available for counseling and consultation every Tuesday at the Fellowship from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Jill may also be reached anytime via email at jjarvis1@kc.rr.com. UFL Yahoo! Group Members, Please join! Deadline for Submissions Please send newsletter submissions no later than Monday, 12:00 p.m. noon to ufl_newsletter@yahoo.com. Thank you for your attention to this detail! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Patience Quotes Chinese Proverb: One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. Franklin P. Jones: You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Helen Keller: We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. John Quincy Adams: Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. Linda Hogan: There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. Lya Sorano: When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait that long. More Quotes submitted by Mark Larson "If you cannot change your mind, you can't change anything." (anon) Seen over one of the open archways in the Topeka Public Library. Morality: It ultimately gets back to some sort of social conduct to meet a perceived need. Wes Jackson: Conceptual Revolutions "When someone is honestly 55% right, that's very good, and there's no use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it's wonderful and let him praise God. But what is to be said about 75% right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100% right? Whoever says he's 100% right, is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal!" (So speaks "An Old Jew from Galicia" in Miloszis' The Captive Mind.)	On Sundays Please Join Us! Sunday, January 27th 9:15AM - Spiritual Service: The Emergence of Evil - Do Unitarian Universalists believe in evil?  Liberal religion has long been accused of refusing to confront this basic element of traditional theologies. In today’s UU movement, evil is coming out of the closet, as we’re struggling to name it, confront it, and find meaningful responses to it.  How do we makes sense of and respond to the evil we encounter in the world and in our own lives?  We will be accompanied by a clarinet quartet as we consider these questions. 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. A two part series on challenges and changes in life style during different phases of life will be presented in February.  We hope that hearing how some of our members have made decisions and met challenges impacting their future lives will provide food for thought for those of us approaching our own future. February 3^rd 9:15AM - Spiritual Service: TBA 10:45 a.m. Program:  A panel discussion of our members focusing on the changes that occur to their lives during the decades of their '40's and '50's. February 10th 9:15AM - Spiritual Service: TBA 10:45 a.m. Program:  John Glassman, of the Lawrence Senior Center, will share some of his vision of what the Senior Center can bring to the lives of Lawrence Senior Citizens. February 17th 9:15AM - Spiritual Service: TBA 10:45 a.m. Program:   A panel of our members will focus on the changes and challenges that occur during the decades of their 70's and 80's. February 24th 9:15AM - Spiritual Service: TBA 10:45 a.m. Program:  Two members of the Euitin Guitar Ensemble will present a musical program. Sexuality Education - Kindergarteners & First Graders Parents of K-1 children, please join us on Sunday, January 27th at 12:00 p.m. for an overview of the Our Whole Lives (OWL) sexuality education program. We will be offering the eight session program for kindergarten and first grade children at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday mornings between March and May with an initial session for both parents and children on Feb. 24. Program materials will be available for your review. Childcare and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Carol at askeades@aol.com. ~Carol Eades Delnevo and Peter Graham OWL - Our Whole Lives Please join us on Sunday, January 27 at 12:00 for an overview of the Our Whole Lives sexuality education program. We will be offering the eight session program for kindergarten and first grade children at 10:45 on Sunday mornings between March and May with an initial session for both parents and children on Feb. 24. Program materials will be available for your review. Childcare and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Carol at askeades@aol.com. ~Carol Eades Delnevo and Peter Graham Proposals for CSAI (Congregational Study Action Issue) for study from 2008-2012) Proposal #1 Ethical Eating: Food and Environmental Justice Religious organizations throughout the world have discussed the production, distribution, and use of food. Some people enjoy many food choices while others remain hungry. The food industry produces wealth, but small farmers and farm workers are often poor. Food production and transportation contribute to many environmental problems. This issue is inspired by the work of the UUSC with Equal Exchange and the involvement of our congregations with both human rights and environmental protection issues. Hunger is both a community and an international problem that can be approached in a variety of ways. There is a need for political advocacy in support of government programs that try to feed the hungry, as well as involvement with service programs that deliver food to individuals and families. This study issue speaks to the UU vision of environmental justice and the “interdependent web.” Proposal #2 Nuclear Disarmament Should the UUA work with other faith communities to advocate a dramatic reduction in the world’s nuclear weapons inventories, primarily those of the United States and Russia, in favor of reinvigorated nuclear arms control agreements and principles, such as those embodied in the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty? Two hundred well-placed nuclear weapons could drive civilized society back to the Stone Age. Each of these weapons can kill more than 100,000 in populated and targeted areas. The Nunn-Lugar Act, funded by Congress in 1994, allows money to be spent to help Russia stabilize its large number of unsecured weapons materials facilities and to identify, destroy, and dispose of a portion of its nuclear weapons. Russia and the US have national policies that appear to provide in perpetuity for the maintenance of large numbers of nuclear weapons. Advocacy of a position against nuclear weaponry is highly consistent with UUA principles, which show support and respect for the interdependent web of all life and for the goal of world peace. Souper Bowl Sunday On February 3, the RE kids will take a field trip to Hy-Vee to do a food drive for Just Foods/Eckan--a great way for kids to use all their UU enthusiasm and persuasive skills to benefit the community! We’ll leave the Fellowship around 9:30 and be back by 11. Children 5 and under must be accompanied by a parent. Children who choose not to participate can help out in the nursery or remain through the service with their parents.  Because of our field trip, there will be no RE class at 10:45. Join us for a fun morning helping others! Strategic Planning Retreat Saturday, January 26, 2008--9:30 - 3:00 PM All are invited to participate! In November, a number of Fellowship members participated in a meeting of the Strategic Planning Task Force. The meeting was open to all, particularly those with interests in Membership, Social Action, Program, Spiritual Service, RE, Hospitality, and Communications issues. It was decided then to have a retreat in January to follow up on the ideas generated. The purpose of the Task Force is to prepare for the time when the new addition is completed and when we might expect more visitors, more potential members, more children, and to be poised to do more for and with our own members (more small-group activities, more programming for young adults, more adult RE opportunities, etc.), to do more in the local community (social action, social justice, etc.) and to plan how we may better communicate who we are. Committees have been invited to present goals and ideas. We hope then to generate many thoughts as to how we can accomplish the overall goals by working together in an interconnected way. Please put this event on your calendar! ~Barbara Schowen, convener Save Money, Energy, and cut Pollution - CFLs I've been looking around in various stores at the Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs (CFLs) they sell. My conclusions are: For one or two bulbs at a time, Aldi's has the best price. They sell 60, 75 and 100 watt. Look on the top shelf, furtherest isle in, to the front of the store for these bulbs. $2.69 each For packages of several bulbs - four packs, twelve packs, etc. Cottins just north of 19th and Mass. has the best prices. Their staff is very helpful in finding what you want. Plus this is a locally owned franchise. For speciality CFL bulbs (dimmers, multiwattage, etc) go to Electric Supply, 724 Connecticut. They tend to be expensive, but they have these items. Thanks! ~Mark Larson Check out our website! http://www.uufl.net/ Newsletter articles and information should be emailed directly to: ufl_newsletter@yahoo.com Entries received by 12pm on Monday are guaranteed to be in the next newsletter! Those received after 12pm may not be. Please note: ufl_newsletter@yahoo.com is the only address to which you should submit information.
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