The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to […]
“A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The was deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.” And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on […]
And now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines, we would all be together in […]
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee; And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils […]
Enheduanna (c. 2300 B.C) was a Sumerian priestess, and the first known poet, male or female, of prehistory. Her work reminds us of how long man has warred in folly. —Freely adapted and translated by Daniela Gioseffi You hack everything down in battle…. God of War, with your fierce wings you slice away the land […]
What I remember most was not the incident at Sarajevo, but the first flying steamkettle puffing round the bend, churning up the dirt between the rocky pastures as it came riding high on its red wheels in a blare of shining brass; and my bay stallion snorting, rearing in fright, bolting, leaving me sprawled on […]
The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard. No cookie nibbled by a […]
Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt-marvelous error! that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt-marvelous error! that I had a beehive […]
The laws of life and death are as they should be. The laws of matter and force are as they should be; and if death ends my consciousness, still is death good. I have had life on those terms, and somewhere, somehow, the course of nature is justified. I shall not be imprisoned in some […]
