Gatherings This Week

“Human Dreaming”

Tucker Orbison; Rev. Linda Simmons, Service Leader

The Aboriginal peoples of Australia track their land, family lines and sense of self with what are called ‘songlines.’ These lines travel through all of Australia and originate from the Aboriginal world view known as the Dreamtime. There is a song for everything: rock, trees, sweet potatoes, ants. Every Aboriginal person has a Dreaming that defines their kinship, territory, and their song, which guides them not only through landscape, but through life. This sermon will look at Dreaming and songlines and what Tucker will call Human Dreaming and ask what is that defines our paths and how can we learn to navigate them with peace?

Join us for this special service where Tucker will be presenting this fascinating and heartfelt sermon. Avi Chitrit will also play the digeridoo and oud during this service.

Tucker Orbison is an island resident, laborer and artist. He is a longtime friend of the UU Meeting House. He is deeply connected with nature and spends a lot of time exploring the island on foot.

Music with Barbara Elder and the UU Meeting House Choir

Guest Musician Avi Chitrit

Religious Education with Leyah Jensen & Sherlly Morocoima

Earth Month! DESIGN for Change: This week, we each design a wearable work of art that speaks for change. Whether you want to take a stand on climate change; stand up for your favorite endangered animal; or make a statement about preserving water…go BOLD! Go COLORFUL! And then wear it home, as a wonderful and washable promotion of our planet Earth.

10:45 a.m. - Hendrix Hall & Activities Room

See you at the UU Meeting House!

Linda
Rev. Linda Simmons, Minister
Second Congregational Society/Unitarian Universalist
Nantucket, Massachusetts

Order of Service
April 7, 2019

Sunday Morning Participants
Sunday Service Leader – Rev Linda Simmons
Guest Speaker – Tucker Orbison
Music Director – Barbara Elder
Guest Musician – Avi Chitrit
UU Meeting House Choir – Cynthia Csabay, Al Fuller, Cheryl Fuller, Val Hall, Haziel Jackson, Polly Miller, Grace Noyes, Phaedra Plank, Jim Sulzer, Nancy Tobias, Jeffrey Thomson
Coffee Hour Host – Potluck. Coffee Hour is also generously funded this week by a grant given by the Strand Family to help us tie up those potluck loose ends.

Genderqueer: The Practice of Beloved Community: beginning Tuesday April 9th and running every Tuesday for 6 weeks until May 13th (except week 2 which will be Thursday the 18th) from 5-6:30pm at the UU Meeting House, 11 Orange Street, facilitated by Rev. Linda Simmons. This series is based on the video presentations on transgender inclusion by Rev. Mykal Slack and Zr. Alex Kapitan. We will watch the presentations, engage assigned readings and consider the practice of beloved community. This class will offer information and the opportunity to grow as we move into a practice of welcome that has room for all of us. Please sign up with Rev. Linda at revlindasimmons@gmail.com or 508-680-6498

UU and Friends Crafting Group: The crafting group continues to meet on Saturday mornings from 10am-12pm in the Activities Room. Bring your own project or choose from several easy projects that will be provided. No experience necessary. Join the fun! Contact Kat Robinson Grieder at 508-332-0818 or tuckernuckat@gmail.com with questions.

Drumming Circle: Drumming Circle has been moved to Saturdays at 1 pm in the Activities Room

Choir Practice: Join us for choir practice Thursdays at 5:15 pm in Hendrix Hall. New members always welcome!

Gathering as One People: UU Meeting House, Sunday April 14th, 6:30pm. We offer this Interfaith service just before Passover, Ramadan and Easter to affirm that all people deserve to be treated with respect and that hatred and racism in all its forms tear holes in the fabric of our common humanity. Please join us for prayer, silence, spoken word and song shared from the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian and Interfaith traditions to affirm that love is stronger than hate, and we are its people.

Neighborhood Project: The Next screening of the Neighborhood Project will be Monday, April 15, 5-7:30pm. Join us for a pot luck, provocative 30-minute movie and creative discussion. The theme of this month’s movie is “Stigma & Candor.”

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

- Rumi