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by Tom Hook August 11, 2024             Good morning and thank you for having me again.  This was a short notice situation as your scheduled speaker, Valerie Luna Serrels, had to cancel for this Sunday for personal reasons.               I suspect several of you are somewhat familiar with the Enneagram.  I first was exposed to it in 1990 during my Spiritual Direction studies.  Over the years I have become more and more intrigued with this personality typology and how it can (

July 7, 2024 By Bill Faw Good morning! This is my 14th message for HUU since September, 2018. Today we look at the interesting question: Is history flat (basically staying the same), circular (getting better, then worse, in cycles), inclining (getting better), or declining (getting worse)? PARTS ONE AND TWO: HISTORY FLAT AND/OR CIRCULAR For classic portrayals of both the ‘flat’ and ‘circular/cyclical’ views of history, let us turn to good old Ecclesiastes from the Hebrew Bib

June 30, 2024 Upwellings © Linda Ankrah-Dove As if in unchanging tidal currents solitude brings me me quiet soothings in my peaceful home. My body floats, my mind calms, spacious with the lulling cycles of the once-steady seasons. I think of our mammal cousins—whales slow-swinging easy with the ceaseless ocean rhythms, rising to breathe the essential air, blowing rainbow spouts across the sloping waves. But in these frenetic times, the climate calendar's constant clangings tr

June 16, 2024 HUU Minute with Judith Dreyer I am preparing a talk for LLI as part of a class offered by the Master Gardeners. I have been researching the “flip side of invasives” for several reasons…to flip the narrative from war on specific plants to what they are trying to tell us and, more importantly, what they are doing for us. As you can imagine, I'm going “out on a limb” here. (pun intended) I am looking at specific troublesome species. Guess what? As Merle calls our

By Rev. Janet Onnie May 12, 2024             Among other events on the May calendar is Mother’s Day.  This holiday is celebrated in the U.S. and in several other countries around the world today.  This is a day when many of my colleagues flee their pulpits.  To address the complexity of the individual experiences with their birth mother – or lack thereof – regardless of nationality -- is to guarantee push-back from almost everyone.  It also ignores the men who have nurtured c