When I was in my twenties, so many possibilities about what life might hold for me beckoned from so many directions that the upshot was I was fairly immobilized. Many futures were possible, but none of them called my name. Then one day, I stopped into a book-store and picked up a book. Read more »

Your great mistake is to act the dramas if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. Read more »

If I were trying to develop and deliver a talk about the history of Unitarian Universalist opposition to war and war-making institutions, I could have hammered this out and gone right back to dipping peppermint Jo Jo’s in milk and watching Dr. Who on Netflix. Read more »

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was born in 1207 in Afghanistan, which was then within the Persian empire. Read more »

The CLF Annual Meeting will be held on June 27, 2013 at 6:00PM Eastern Time by teleconference and screenshare. That means that CLF members can call in to a conference call number and participate by telephone. Read more »

Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. —Ella Fitzgerald

“Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.” —Socrates

“Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” —Judith Minty

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If we look beneath memory loss and the inability to reason, we may be surprised to discover what persons with Alzheimer’s reveal to us … Read more »

Well-meaning people explain that it doesn’t matter what religion I choose, but I must choose, and only one. Only then, they say, can I go truly deep into a religion. Read more »