Today's subject line is from Marge Piercy's Seven of Pentacles. The section that begins "Connections are made slowly" appears as a reading in Singing the Living Tradition, a Unitarian Universalist hymnal. It was one of three Piercy poems I included in the session I led yesterday at the UUFM retreat, along with "The Art of Blessing the Day" (there were audible chuckles at the part about tomatoes) and the last two stanzas of To Be of Use (also excerpted in SLT).

Today, at my home church, the minister's sermon was titled "No Explanations, No Excuses, No Blame," which included retellings of the stories of Adam, Eve, and the snake, and about Judah and Tamar. The roses in front of the pulpit were from a friend's garden, and the banner is a quotation from the Qur'an. (Many congregations -- UUFM among them -- chose to include Qur'an quotations in their services today.)

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