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A small group (!ucv) gets together in Hitschmanova every Thursday morning for an informal ping-pong session. If you’d like to express an interest in joining this ping-pong group or another one, you can do so here.
notes and links
DuckDuckGo bang commands (!?) link to search results for words they follow when the commands are in parentheses, for words they precede when they are not
!? the rules of table tennis – miscellany on posthaven
Art for Refugees is a silent auction of artwork by Karen Brumelle with all proceeds to the refugee committee. The art is on display in the Fireside room from December 1 to 22.
Preview: Art for Refugees (@UnitarianUCV) – click on that link to see tweets with images of art for sale in the silent auction. (You do not need a Twitter account for this.) Twitter may crop images, so always click on an image displayed with a tweet to be sure you see all of it.
The image featured in this post is displayed with this tweet.
An image of another painting in the silent auction is displayed with this tweet.
And you can scroll through all such tweets to preview some of the art on sale in Fireside.
Come view the actual artwork and write your first bids when the exhibit opens on December 1.
You can review bids and bid or rebid on any day. Bidding closes at 12:15 pm on December 22.
Support the wonderful work of the refugee committee – get some art for yourself or as a gift.
notes and links
featured image from silent auction
artist’s website: brumelleart.com
in these notes, DuckDuckGo bang commands (!?) link to search results for words they follow when the commands are in parentheses, for words they precede when they are not:
!ucv refugee committee / a search on the UCV website
!tw “Art for Refugees” (@UnitarianUCV) / a search on Twitter
the Merriam-Webster definition of a silent auction (!mw) notwithstanding, the written bids in Art for Refugees are not sealed but displayed with the art
Art for Refugees is a silent auction of artwork by Karen Brumelle with all proceeds to the refugee committee. The art is on display in the Fireside room from December 1 to 22.
Come view the artwork and write your first bids when the exhibit opens on December 1.
You can review bids and bid or rebid on any day. Bidding closes at 12:15 pm on December 22.
Support the wonderful work of the refugee committee – get some art for yourself or as a gift.
Preview: Art for Refugees (@UnitarianUCV) – click on that link to see tweets with images of art for sale in the silent auction. (You do not need a Twitter account for this.)
notes and links
featured image from silent auction
artist’s website: brumelleart.com
in these notes, DuckDuckGo bang commands (!?) link to search results for words they follow when the commands are in parentheses, for words they precede when they are not:
!ucv refugee committee / a search on the UCV website
!tw “Art for Refugees” (@UnitarianUCV) / a search on Twitter
the Merriam-Webster definition of a silent auction (!mw) notwithstanding, the written bids in Art for Refugees are not sealed but displayed with the art
Ananda [AH-nuhn-duh], a cousin of the Buddha and among the first of his followers, had a reputation for attending all his talks and accurately remembering all he said. Except once.
Ananda must have skipped the talk about friendship. One day, to clarify a point he was unsure about, he turned to the Buddha and asked if it was true that friendship is half of the spiritual life.
“Not so, Ananda,” said the Buddha, “friendship is the whole of the spiritual life.” (!?)
notes and links
photo by Briana Tozour on Unsplash
parenthetical DuckDuckGo bang commands (!?) link to search results for terms they follow
ananda (!di) / “perfect bliss”
There are some good reasons for using the DuckDuckGo search engine and even for making it the default search engine on your browser so you can just type search terms right into the location bar (address bar) at the top of your screen.
This post goes into just one reason: the bang command. If you click on that link and then scroll down, you can see why bang commands are useful.
The bang commands in this post link to their results so you don’t have to type them into your browser to try them out. Just click on them.
!ucv principles for kids / for grownups too (see link in item found)
!ucv small groups / where everyone has a voice and is heard
!ucv vision statement / !g “… exactly what it says on the tin”
Those examples used the new bang command !ucv
/ (given nothing to search for on a website, a bang command displays the home page)
Even if you don’t make DuckDuckGo the default search engine on your browser, you can maybe still use it in the browser search box. This is usually to the right of the location bar (address bar) at the top of your screen, as it is in Firefox. Click on the dropdown symbol – if there is one in the search box – and select a miniature version of the featured image in this post after you have typed the search term.
Here are some other bang commands worth knowing:
!yt Vancouver Unitarians / YouTube
!gb “Singing the Living Tradition” / Google Books
!gr “Singing the Living Tradition” / Goodreads
!b becoming a Unitarian site:cuc.ca / Bing
!i Vancouver Unitarians / images
!m Unitarian Church of Vancouver, 949 West 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2T1 / map
!ucv technology / drop-in sessions, first Sundays, for help with any or all of the above
Please spread the word. Send people this copy-paste of the title of the post with its embedded link:
A bang command for UCV on DuckDuckGo
Thank you.
The quote – on the illusion of feeling separate from the whole – is reproduced in the prepared text (PDF) for Religious Naturalism, Take Two. This document is still available at the literature stall after Sunday service. When it no longer is, remember that a lit stall volunteer can always help you with tracking down a past sermon.
More than a year ago, UU Mystics board member Bryce Haymond expressed doubt on the authenticity of the quote in a March 2018 post on his blog. See that post for the quote in full and then scroll down for an update – with sources – that verifies it after all.
The above is a lit stall post. In the bulleted list below are the three latest posts with that tag.
updated 2019-04-24 … this post now looks like the legacy post it is: here for the record and to direct you to the post about small group posts, a post updated with each new edition of the directory
The featured image shows the cover of the March [2019] edition of the directory, announced in March [2019]. The latest edition is available in hard copy at the welcome table. Click here if for some reason you want to read the March directory online instead of the latest edition. For more on the latest edition, see below.
This is a small groups post. Be sure to read the post about small groups posts – it is kept up to date: unlike this one it always links to a copy of the latest edition of the directory and features an image of its cover.
updated 2019-04-24 … this post now looks like the legacy post it is: here for the record and to direct you to the post about small group posts, a post updated with each new edition of the directory
Nina Rashleigh, grandmother to Owen, mother and mother-in-law to former DREs Jen and Morgan, has a message for anyone at UCV who would love to grow vegetables and flowers but doesn’t have access to a garden. She writes:
I have a good size garden in Kerrisdale which I would love to share. You get 2 or 3 plots of land for your use ( 2 plots are 7 x 5 feet each, one of which is in shade in the morning, 1 plot is 2.5 x 9 feet). In return I hope to have help with watering my garden in the summer.
Please email Nina or phone her at (604) 263-9997 if you’d like to know more.
note: the featured image is from a post by Mary Bennett about smaller plots on the north side of Hewett Centre
When you volunteer at the literature stall (the lit stall) after Sunday service, people come up to you with questions. Not all the questions are about copies of sermons.
“Can you help me with the name of that person, the one over there with their back to us?”
“Sorry, I can’t. Are they wearing a nametag?”
“No, that’s the problem. I spoke with them last Sunday. Now I can’t remember their name. And I don’t like to ask them.”
“Maybe they’re like Wendy Bryan (pictured, right) when she is at a no-nametag gathering.”
“How do you mean?”
“Wendy always says, ‘Thank you for asking. It’s Wendy Bryan. And feel free to ask me again the next time we meet. I won’t have remembered you asked me.’”
Nice. But hey.
That person you spoke with last Sunday and who seems to be avoiding you now may simply be too embarrassed to admit to you they can’t remember your name.
When you volunteer at the lit stall after Sunday service, people come up to you with questions. Not all of these people are wearing nametags. Asking for a friend: If you have a nametag, could you please wear it? And earn a silent thank-you from that friend.
Wearing your nametag helps us all. Nametags help us make connections and build community.
Karen Bartlett and Nancy Strider are wearing yellow nametags at the welcome table (picture, above left) by the entrance to Hewett Centre. If you’re a visitor, ask whoever is at the welcome table wearing a yellow nametag to direct you to the lit stall and to the sermon discussion table.
The above is a lit stall post. In the bulleted list below are the three latest posts with that tag.
Posts tagged as lit stall posts form an occasional series of items of possible interest to literature stall (lit stall) volunteers and to people who visit the lit stall. You can see a list of all posts with that tag – and a snippet view of each of them – when you click here.
To check out a placeholder for background information about the lit stall, click here.
Please say what you have to say about any of this in person when you next visit the lit stall in Hewett Centre after Sunday service. Or email me.
note: a planned update to the Library and Archives page includes a link to this post
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