This morning, at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, I helped to facilitate our last lay-led service of the summer. For the past several years, this Sunday of Labor Day weekend has been a poetry service. Though it has had a poetry-nature for longer, the last several years have had a theme: inspiration, love, and this year, political action.
Today's service went swimmingly, even with the unfortunate last minute cancellation of two of our seven readers (one had a stomach ailment; one got stuck in Morocco). Interspersed with poems were three Sweet Honey in the Rock songs and two live-sung songs by Arjuna Greist (www.arjunagreist.com), which were funny and moving. Announced within the UU congregation always, this year it was also announced on a poetry calendar -- so there was a mix of folks sitting in the pews. That was rewarding.
For a list of the poems, including the text of the three of mine that were used, please go to
http://www.leamon.org/kj/index.php?itemid=34 (my sermon blog).
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Hiya,
Glad to hear that the service went well. If we were in Amherst (as we've been most Labor Day weekends for the last couple years) it would have been fun to be in attendance.
Best,
Roy.
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