![]() ![]() My hope is that this time, we not pull away from the fullness of the revolution in values that it requires. I have created twenty new papercuts and with the help of designer, Sherry He, she has created four digital prints of my shoes, along with notecards. King spoke of as the force that could save us as a nation and recover the goodness and possibility that lives in us all. Will you join me in DC or in your state capital? Sign up here on the Poor Peoples Campaign UU Commitment Pledge to get information you need to participate and to get connected.Ībsence of the money to buy speech or politicians, we still have the power of faith and of the force of agape love that Dr. I will be engaging in direct action in the US Capitol next week on May 21st. Now that we’ve launched, it’s important that we continue and escalate our actions. You can learn more by joining the UUs & the Poor Peoples Campaign Facebook Group. We’ve also been hearing from UUs around the country who helped organize and were part of actions in their state capitals. There were over 50 UUs who came to the launch in DC and close to 20 who engaged in direct action calling for a movement of faith, social justice advocates and organizers, labor and poor people, who can together end poverty, white supremacy, ecological devastation, and the war economy it is all based on. Frederick-Gray’s statement as well as Rev. Michael Crumpler, UUA LGBTQ & Intercultural Programs Manager, both of whom took direct action and arrest. I was at the Washington, DC action providing jail support and logistics with UUA President Rev. Join me in curiosity and wonder. Let's share our stories, our grief, our pleasure and lean in to this great mystery of life.As you know, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival 40 Days of Action launched on Monday, May 14th. Nearly 200 years after his death, thanks to the writers who kept his name and stories alive, and thanks to the Toni Morrison Society and the Walden Woods Project, a stone with a plaque and a bench was installed recognizing his life and contributions. I headed up to his spot while wandering along the Emerson-Thoreau Amble, a footpath thru a pine forest weaving around Fairyland Pond where Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and many others may have meandered between Concord MA and Walden Pond. I sat on the Brister Freeman bench and pondered Brister's life up there, watching the trees and grasses waving in the breeze, wondering what the views might have been like before the forest grew back after it was cut to build Concord. He then gained his freedom and moved up to a sandy grassy hilltop in the woods near Walden. I recently made a pilgrimage up to Brister Hill, named after Brister Freeman (1744-1822), who spent the first 38 years of his life enslaved in Concord before enlisting as a soldier in the in the American Revolutionary War. Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, by Elise Lemire shares more of these stories. They made their lives tending the sandy, rocky, woods of Walden Pond on the outskirts of town. Henry David Thoreau's Walden audiobook was my soundtrack for my daily commutes to the trailheads. I imagined the former village that he describes in chapter 14, acknowledging those who came just before him who inhabited the shores and surrounding woods of Walden. They were former slaves, immigrants, and outsiders who were not welcome to live in Concord, Massachusetts. We capped the days with sunsets and reflections at Walden Pond. Our mornings were spent in meadows and woodlands. Our afternoons were filled with discussions on the more nuanced pedagogy of what it means to be a guide and the magical craft of making our philosophies tangible. ![]() This was the culmination of a six month training where newly trained guides gathered from across North America to practice guiding, incorporate their guide journey, and crossed the threshold towards completing their certification. ![]() Earlier this October, I co-led a 4-day nature and forest therapy guide training immersion in Lincoln, Massachusetts. ![]()
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