When I was a young girl, my father had a Wheel Horse Lawn and Garden Tractor. The company manufactured these for forty years beginning in 1946. There wasn’t much that thing couldn’t do! It had a mower deck, a snowplow, a hitch so you could pull all manner of tools behind it. My brother and I- when we came of a certain age- were allowed to drive the tractor, a much-coveted rite of passage. In actuality that was a ploy to get us to cut the grass! I remember shifting it jus

Joy Harjo is the nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate, named by the Library of Congress, she is on her third term, which she attributes to the pandemic more than anything else. She is the first Native American poet to be so named, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Her project, “Living Nations, Living Words,” introduces Americans to 47 Native American poets using an interactive ArcGIS story map. She selected a map that has no US borders, instead only land and ocean surroundin

“CONGRATULATIONS!” “HAPPY ANNVERSARY!” Twenty-five years. The silver anniversary. One quarter of a century. This is quite a milestone and I want you to soak it in. Can we do that for a minute? Just breathe and look around you at the people and the architecture and the accoutrements. What does it mean to you to have been meeting in this beautiful space for such an amount of time? What does it say to you about this congregation? I’ve been reading up on the big move f