Did You Know
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…that the CLF has welcomed three new learning fellows? Kevin Jagoe, Lauren Way and Amanda Weatherspoon will be joining us for the next two years. Read more →
The Legacy of Caring
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Despair is my private pain
Born from what I have failed to say
failed to do
failed to overcome. Read more →
We Need Joy
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After college, my best friend and I drove from her home in Texas through the Southwest. Read more →
The Blessed Gift of Joy
Siri Allison is a storyteller with Story Circle at Proctors, the resident storytelling company at this performing arts center in Schenectady, NY. This story is from the Kanglanek people, who live near the source of the Colville River, a major river on the Arctic Coast of Alaska. (Story begins at 1:20 after some introduction.)
Dance Break for Joy
We can express joy in so many ways. One way is with our bodies. You might want to wiggle your fingers and toes. You might want to stretch like a cat or hop like a bunny, you might want to wrap a warm blanket around yourself. You might want to hug a friend, or wiggle in your chair.
Just like there are so many ways to express joy, there are so many ways to use your body to dance your joy! You can dance whenever you feel joyful. You can dance any way you like. And when you don’t feel very joyful, something magical might happen if you can dance anyway. It might even change the way you are feeling!
Send in the Clowns
Most of us only see clowns in parades and circuses. But for refugees and people who cannot go back to their homes, there are not many parades or circuses, and the children who live in the refugee communities don’t get to see many clowns-or have a lot of fun in general. It’s a hard life for anyone, especially for children, but these clowns are clowning for a cause!
Clowns without Borders is a troupe of performers who visit refugee camps and displaced communities and perform for them. They juggle, they do magic tricks, they make everyone laugh and smile. For more than 20 years, these joyful folks have brought joy to the loves of people who have experienced great struggles and loss. They call it Resilience Through Laughter.
Why is this posted in the UU & You section of Family Quest? Because there are UUs participating in Clown Without Borders today! Here’s an interview with lifelong Unitarian Universalist Sarah Foster:
Sarah Liane Foster, a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, traveled as a professional clown with Clowns Without Borders to Haiti, Turkey, Colombia, Swaziland, and South Africa where children have experienced conflict and injustice. “Laughter is a critical way to heal trauma,” Sarah said. You can read more about Sarah’s story in the Spring 2016 Family pages of UU World as well!
A Bright Golden Thread
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When a weaver starts a new piece, she first must tie the warp strings on her loom to form an underlying base of the fabric she will create. Read more →
Thanks to Congregations
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The CLF would like to thank the following congregations who, between March 2015 and March 2016 have taken up collections to support our ministries. Read more →
Missing Mudita
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I was looking for the missing brahmavihara. Read more →
Joy in Ordinary Time
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My Mama was a second grade teacher at the Gladwyne Elementary School in the rich suburbs of Philadelphia. Read more →
