One way to insure everyone drowns in a concept is to devote a day to it. Today is #GivingTuesday and thus everyone is getting a million emails from lots of good causes, and I want to participate, but what about the other 364 days? Is this one an attempt to balance our karma with the excessive shopping we've been goaded into since Thanksgiving, or an end-of-year-tax-writeoff opportunity? I'd love to encourage people who follow my page here to do something today, but who the heck would read it when we're all drowning in so many emails & posts?
Nov. 2, 2014
All Souls Day has never been a big milestone for me. But after a week of profound discoveries about my family with my Mom on Ancestry.com, this morning's message "We Remember Them" by our friend Rev. John Manwell at Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun really put so many beautiful thoughts into context for me personally.