The May theme packet can be found here. May’s Playfulness Platforms: May 6 “Playful WES!: An Immersive Experience ” Join us this Sunday for a * surprisingly * playful platform. Music from members of Tropic Soul and, along with an exploration of the many kinds of ways that we play! We really hope you won’t miss this … Continue reading May’s Theme: Playfulness
Many of our WES members belong to the WES Biology Reading Group. They have enjoyed reading and discussing books on current advances in the life sciences. There also seems to be interest in following a similar format for books in the physical sciences. Would you be interested? Here is a date: Thursday, June 14 at 7:30pm. You … Continue reading New Book Group forming — A Look at the Physical Sciences
Tennyson, Victorian poet laureate of Great Britain and Ireland wrote, “In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” That is a statement, which excludes nearly everyone. It suggests only males within a limited age range ever experience this universal activity of the mind. I think today that sentiment can be … Continue reading WES Blog — Spring Has Sprung
Amanda offers this reflection, which was recently featured in Braver/Wiser, a collection curated and shared by the Unitarian Universalist Association. You can sign up to receive a daily Braver/Wiser reflection here: https://www.uua.org/braverwiser. “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire … Continue reading WES Blog — Putting the Pieces Together
As some of you have heard me joke, whenever a group of new members joins WES I think to myself: “Awwwww! These are my favorite new members!” And I go right on thinking that all the way until we have another group of folks joining, at which time I immediately switch my allegiance to them. (Since we … Continue reading WES Blog — The Best New Members (Every Time)
An update from Terry Smith of the Earth Ethics Team: Thank you to all that helped with the Portal Branch Cleanup. John Kester had an excellent idea of bringing smaller bags that are a better size for an elementary age child to hold, then these could be emptied into the big yellow and blue bags supplied … Continue reading Portal Branch Stream Cleanup
I’ve been thinking a lot about how Balance, our theme for March, and Emergence, our theme for April, intersect so beautifully. In my own life here at WES, I see the intersection in a couple areas: choosing music for platform, and growing the music program as a whole. In selecting music for platform, I … Continue reading WES Blog — Becoming Aware: What is Emerging (Musically)?
The April theme packet can be found here. April Emergence Platforms: April 1 “Becoming Wise: A Fool’s Journey Through Life” Amanda Poppei, Senior Leader. Sometimes we refer to world religions as “wisdom traditions”–but do they always reward the wise? Exploring the concepts of Beginner’s Mind in Zen Buddhism and the concept of the “holy fool,” Amanda will … Continue reading April’s Theme: Emergence
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. –Sydney Harris I have often joked with friends that “if it isn’t on Facebook, it isn’t real!” Having the experience of being the generation that stressed over my top 8 for MySpace … Continue reading WES Blog — Being Social on Social Media
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