RevCyn

I'd been having a rough day, when I came to the studio with my daughter to wait for an hour while she takes her class. In the last ten minutes, one stranger has offered to buy me a latte, and another has told me that I look really nice in purple. Random acts of kindness, folks, go a long way. You never know when the person you just reached out to really needed that kind moment from a stranger. Here's hoping I remember to pay it forward.

This is a shout-out to the GA Planning Committee, I suppose.  I know they're doing a lot of hard work, and I know that criticizing what they've done, when they have so many voices they've been asked to listen to and they've put a ton of thought & effort into things, is not helpful, constructive, or appreciated.  So without criticizing, what I want to say is that I want them to know how much work we, ought here in the non-UUA-committee world have been doing, as well.  We've been asked to prepare ourselves for this General Assembly, and I think we have been.  By the time I get to General Assembly, here's some of what I will have done: Read the UUA's "Common Read" book for 2010-2011, The Death of Josseline . Read other books on immigration. Read just about everything on the UUA's webpage on immigration. Read countless e-mails and websites from social justice agencies on the subject.   Attended workshops designed to prepare us for "