The Pinellas County Commission has backed down from its promise of funds for Affordable Housing for Low Income Families. It has also retarded development of a much needed One-Stop Information Center for dangerous mental health emergencies. It continues giving Pinellas County citizens thousands of life-inhibiting arrest records … read more.
Dear UUSP Community,
Dateline: Wednesday after the Inauguration.
Reflection on the Biden-Harris memorial for the 400,000 Americans lost to COVID-19: How good and right to have leaders with enough vision not to make spectacles of themselves. Reflection on President Biden’s inauguration speech: How grand to hear … read more.
The UUSC’s long standing fundraising and educational program is taking place at UU St Pete during the month of January 2021. Here are our four guests.
UUSC’s partner Suja Karimuddin is our fourth “guest”, and he is one of the many Rohingya people forced to leave … read more.
Dear UUSP Community,
What a week! Not the least momentous things being the differences in our reactions, between groups, between persons, sometimes between one moment to the next in oneself.
My own prevailing reaction has been to advise myself, No need to panic, given what has happened so … read more.
Dear UUSP Community,
Did you hear the funny story in this week’s news?
Nope, neither did I.
But I have been referring frequently to my old “Garfield” comfort cartoon where Jon tells the supine feline, “Time is running out, Garfield” – to which the catatonic cat replies, “Okay… … read more.
A Hot Christmas Meal
It was bone-chilling cold Christmas Day but the Friday Night Picnic Crew served a warm, sit-down (with option to-go) real Christmas meal, which was so abundant in quantity that it supplied the Saturday Breakfast and Sunday Dinner at Praise the Lord Outreach … read more.
The Sunday morning Women’s Discussion/Covenant Group will resume meetings Sunday, January 17, 2020, from 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. For January, we will use the UUA “Soul Matters” curriculum on the theme “Imagination”:January 17: “Imagine a Story that Has Shaped Your Own”January 24: “Imagine your Gravestone … read more.
Dear UUSP community,
I wish you the most joyous Yuletide season. Over these next weeks, as daylight comes earlier and nighttime comes later, may we find much to celebrate – perhaps kindness of friends, resilience of spirit, doors opening to an enlightened future.
No doubt we are far from … read more.
Dear UUSP friends,
I hope this letter finds you safe and well in body and spirit. And I hope our announcements this week tell of ways to help sustain (or regain) safety and wellness.
It seems that humankind has many ritual remembrances of ways to safety and wellness – … read more.
*Submitted by Karen Coale – Social Justice Committee*
Thank you to those who called or emailed the Collier County Sheriff. This week I received this update from my contact in Immokalee, Jordan Lake of the Alliance for Fair Food in Immokalee:
Thank you so much for sharing that … read more.
