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Inquiring Souls is back! You are invited to join Bill Richardson and Jessica Motherwell McFarlane for tea, snacks and question-storming on every second and fourth Sunday in April, May, and June at 4pm. 

During Inquiring Souls, curiosity leads the way in our quest to learn about life, the universe and everything. Guided by the imaginations of our children and youth, we will attempt to answer questions that range from delightfully silly to profoundly deep. Sometimes we may find ourselves laughing at a surprising question or a novel way of viewing a problem. Other times, we may scratch our heads as we wrestle with a perplexing issue. Inquiring Souls invites us to wonder about love, our UU faith, relationships, and our place in the world. 

Our time together with be centred around our children and youth — with adults coming along to share in the wonder and fun. Note: if we have more people than chairs, we will open up Zoom to beam in all who wish to participate. 

RSVP. Your RSVP is strongly encouraged to help Bill and Jessica be prepared and have a chair reserved for you. Children and youth will have first ‘dibs' on the in-person seats. For those who cannot join us in person but wish to be part of Inquiring Souls, we offer the option to attend by Zoom. Please reserve your Zoom seat at least 24 hours the day before we meet so we can be prepared with Zoom equipment. Please RSVP to jilly.watson@shaw.ca

Health concerns:

1. No fragrances allowed due to severe allergy. 
2. Wear a mask if you wish. 
3. If you are in doubt about your health and whether or not you are sick, please attend by Zoom.
4. We will ask that all guests, wash their hands upon arrival. Our family must follow a conservative, COVID-wise protocol.
5. Please let us know how we can best accommodate your food allergies during snack time.

Cat allergic? Warning: Cats live in our house and generously share their fur wherever they go. If you are allergic to cats, you may prefer to attend by Zoom. 

Acknowledgement:  Inquiring Souls is a creative and soulful adaptation of a protocol established by the Right Question Institute.

The outcome of our Healthy Relations Community Dialogue was the Covenanting workshop held at the end of January. We’d love to see you create a draft covenant from the workshop notes. You can do this alone or with a group. Please contact Laura for access to the notes from the workshop. The deadline to request the notes is Saturday, March 9.  The deadline to submit your draft covenant is Wednesday, March 20.

Any questions or concerns can also be directed to Laura.

Thank you so much. We look forward to the next steps in our covenanting process.

Cheers!

catherine strickland & Laura McNaughton
(Community Dialogues Team)

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This holiday season we are coming together as a community, to support our neighbours in need at the CRAB Park tent city. 

Crab Park is the first legal outdoor shelter space in Canada. Being able to have a safe space to legally shelter is huge for the residents, and they have been able to build an amazing community in difficult circumstances. There is a communal kitchen space, a warming tent, and a donation shed. The camp has about 60 residents. Radio-Canada recently published a lovely story (in French) about some of the residents who live there: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/reportage-photo/7270/parc-crab-vancouver-tentes-sans-abris.

This year, a special Christmas Day is being planned for the community, and a fundraising campaign is underway to ensure that everyone is able to have a warm Christmas meal, gifts, and items that are essential for survival. We encourage you to contribute cash on-line at https://chuffed.org/project/crab-park-christmas.   

We suggest you use “Unitarian Universalists of the Salish Sea” as your last name, so we can track our fundraising results (but of course this is completely up to you).  

As this is a practice of mutual, direct aid, and not through any registered charity, your donation is not eligible for a tax receipt. 

Yette, Robyn and Jacky

Allyson Yee would like to facilitate a study group for an online course called Think Resilience. This course explores the interrelated environmental and social crises of the 21st century—and helps us understand how we can respond to them with local resilience-building actions.  Registration is FREE.

The course consists of twenty-two short video lectures with optional videos/articles for each of the lessons. The study group would meet over ZOOM twice a month from January - April (7 or 8 sessions in total) - for each session participants would be expected to have watched 3 or 4 videos (approx 30-40 minutes) and reviewed some of the additional information. Day/time TBD based on the availability of those interested. For more information please see the course website:  https://education.resilience.org.

If you're interested in participating please email: allysonyee@gmail.com

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