Decoration Day, as it was originally named, dates back to the 1860’s during the Civil War era in our country. The earliest occurrences of mostly women decorating the graves of soldiers were in the South prior to and during the Civil War. What began as a local family time of honoring, spread from those first memorializations to larger and more widespread celebrations. Of course, we find some dispute over when and where the initial decorating happened, and not surprisingly, th

One Sunday last month when I was not scheduled to be here in the pulpit I attended services virtually at King’s Chapel in Boston, a Unitarian Universalist church with an Anglican style liturgy. The message was about extravagant generosity! Later in the day I signed on to a service from Cherry Hill Seminary in the pagan/earth-based form of celebration. The following weekend was spent in silence at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, a Buddhist meditation and teaching c