Laura Wallace recently entered the 2021 Jefferson-Madison Regional Library / WriterHouse Poetry Contest, and was happy to learn that Virginia’s Poet Laureate chose her poem as Runner-Up. You can read her winning entry, “Aphasia,” here.
Many thanks to our hardworking grounds crew for these welcome signs of spring.
The Charlottesville UU’s have provided holiday gifts to Greer Elementary School families for several years, even before I arrived at Greer three years ago. Each year, our Greer Family Support Team gathered information on 8-10 of our neediest families. And each December, our team arrived at Cville UU with vans...
A contribution from Johanna Woodchild: In celebration of the Winter Solstice, which occurs on Monday, December 21st, I share with you this poem, which appeared in the newsletter of the UU Church of the Larger Fellowship c. 1980. FIRST CHRISTMAS A hundred thousand years ago A cave-man looked at ice...
Do you have go-to stories in your family that are told time and time again? I have several and here are some of the titles: Ducks can run really fast if they think you have food. We’re getting married tomorrow and the dogs have caught a skunk! Why did Mommy...
A poem by Irene Wellman. It Was Nothing Really A storm had passed. I stopped the car to walk up and down the country road, trees along the horizon, nearby new leaves, flowers, pools of water on the road. A few cars went by. and then the sun’s rays shone...
By Laura Wallace Like many UUs, I came from a religious background that one day no longer made sense for me. Disillusionment sent me searching, and finally to hovering nervously on a back pew nearly 40 years ago, scared but relieved to have blundered into a community that wouldn’t tell...
Did you ever wonder where our Sunday altars come from? They are created each month by our dedicated altar team. In this post, Maggie Ober explains their creative process. The altar team, Cindy Mick, Michelle Goodrich, Patty Wallens and Maggie Ober, with liberal support from Leia Durland-Jones and Nik Skaggs,...
To : UU Congregation of Charlottesville Re: Report of Charlottesville Police Department From: Rev. Dr. Linda Olson Peebles, Interim Lead Minister Following an incident on Rugby Road in October, when a church member was stopped and questioned by a number of police officers, the Board of Trustees of the UU...