Maybe you have to be a Midwesterner to believe this, but do you know that you can actually hear corn growing? Let me tell you about an experience Austen and I had. Austen, a Havanese, and I are constant traveling companions. One adventure last summer took us to a local farm where we had seen…
Editor’s Note: Sometimes the roads we take are rough and we can’t see exactly where we’re going. The future though lies ahead, not behind us. *** I had seen Lesley several times at church – Unity Unitarian Church in St. Paul. I hadn’t paid much attention because she sat in a pew on the left…
Editor’s Note: Uff Da or Uffda? That’s Minnesota-speak for dismay, surprise, oh no, oops, and other more colorful expressions. *** I remember my first jump as a paratrooper. I was the first one to “stand in the door” of an aging 1950s era C-119 still being flown in 1969. It seemed like an eternity waiting…
My professor at the School of Architecture was 10 years older than me, himself a distinguished graduate of the School of Design at MIT. He was an accomplished architect and the recipient of numerous awards. At class one day he was asked, hypothetically, what made for a good architect. His response: “Being a divorced alcoholic”….
Editor’s Note: As a new member of UU Reflections, the writers’ group at First Unitarian Universalist Church in Rochester, Minnesota, Richard explains how he became a Unitarian. *** American forces had been in Vietnam since 1962. I heeded the call in 1968, joining thearmy infantry, hoping to stall the invasion of South Vietnam by the…
