The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
I am waiting for dinner in a guesthouse, along with fifteen other foreigners. The dining room in which we sit with its bare, whitewashed walls, clean wood floor, and glistening brass spittoon in one corner, could be anywhere in rural China. Throughout our travels, our hosts have planned meals catering to the Western palate to […]
A neighbor of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing. One day she asked her father To give her a garden plot To plant and tend and reap herself, And he said, “Why not?” In casting about for a […]
Go out one clear starlit night to some open space and look up at the sky, at those millions of worlds over your head. Before all these worlds ask yourself what are your aims and hopes. A long and difficult journey is before you. Remember where you are and why you are here. Do not […]
(From God Went to Beauty School) God Climbed a Mountain And not just any mountain. Mount Everest. And you know why? BECAUSE IT WAS THERE. He was tired of hearing about it— He decided just to go do it. And he did. It was terrible. It was awful. He’d never been so cold. He’d never […]
I will not live out of me I will not see with others’ eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free – I cannot be While I take things as others please to rate them I dare attempt to lay out my own road That which myself delights in shall be […]
Your soul was lifted by the wings today Hearing the master of the violin: You praised him, praised the great Sabastian too Who made that fine Chaconne; but did you think Of old Antonio Stradivari? -him Who a good century and a half ago Put his true work in that brown instrument And by the […]
It isn’t very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and […]
She sat in front of the old black stove, alone, except for the gray cat who slept curled up on the small braided rug. The room was quiet, too, except for the muffled crackling sounds of burning wood. Eighty-five winters had come to her, and gone again, but they were with her still when memories […]
Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine. Long through thy weary crowds I roam; A river-ark on the ocean brine, Long I’ve been tossed like the driven foam; But now, proud world! I’m going home. Good-bye to Flattery’s fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise grimace; To […]
The Great religions are the Ships, Poets the life Boats. Every sane person I know has jumped Overboard. That is good for business Isn’t it Hafiz?
