SeevsPlace » UU http://mcseavey.org/blog Where Friendly Porcupines Abound in the Great State of Maine Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:57:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Snowy Snow Snow! http://mcseavey.org/blog/http:/mcseavey.org/blog/weather/snowy-snow-snow/ http://mcseavey.org/blog/http:/mcseavey.org/blog/weather/snowy-snow-snow/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:42:53 +0000 Mardé http://mcseavey.org/blog/?p=1307 Yes, we’ve got a lot of snow already. Even ahead of last year at this point I bet. Another 12 to 14 inches here yesterday. And a “mix” coming on Wednesday. Yuk!

Cynthia and I braved the elements yesterday and headed for our UU church in Norway, Maine, leaving a bit before 9am. No trouble at all getting there. The snow hadn’t started yet. But during our church service the storm began.

We were having an exciting and amusing Solstice service. Noise makers and drums were brought in to chase away the darkness and witness the return of light and life. So, as we had fun banging and clowning around, the snow began to build up outside.

Hey, we had some serious aspects to the service as well. It wasn’t entirely Pagan, but did have a bit of the Christmas cheer with tree and all, plus some messages for the Christians among the sparse congregation.

Needless to say, we left for home, normally a 35 minute drive, right after the service. We did fine, driving very carefully behind lines of cars behind snow plows, until we made the turn onto rt 117 to Denmark.

Then suddenly, with no warning from anybody (not even from God), we spun off the road. I watched in horror from my driver’s seat as our Subaru Forester slid past a road sign and to the right of some birch trees, and came swinging around down an incline to rest beside a small house. We were unscathed but a bit traumatized.

Suddenly people seemed to appear from nowhere. A small truck with a plow stopped up on the road, people got out and came down to us, a friendly guy from the house came to my window. “Hey, with a little help I think you can back out of here!”, he said.

The people in the truck maneuvered it down by the house and started removing snow from behind our car. Cynthia was invited into the house. Shovels went to work and I was told to back up slowly. Before I knew it, the car was freed and ready to go.

I thanked the people profusely, drove back to the road from the driveway, and followed the savior truck, ever so carefully, back toward Denmark, and then made it up the hill and home.

All this time it had been snowing without let up of course. What a exciting and interesting day we had! Whew… we were sure happy when we emerged from our car safely at home.

]]> http://mcseavey.org/blog/http:/mcseavey.org/blog/weather/snowy-snow-snow/feed/ Mem Day http://mcseavey.org/blog/http:/mcseavey.org/blog/global-warming/mem-day/ http://mcseavey.org/blog/http:/mcseavey.org/blog/global-warming/mem-day/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 22:41:40 +0000 Mardé http://mcseavey.org/blog/?p=428 We had a great Mem Day service in church today. That’s our UU church in Norway, Maine, pretty small as churches go, but we’ve picked up great enthusiasm in the last few weeks. Not sure why. But there you are. But getting back to the service today: Richard (that’s our minister) was in great form and had some wonderful thoughts. The thing about him is that he’s a regular person, not at all remote as some ministers, with their egos, tend to be. I get along with him great. He’s got a self-effacing sense of humor, just like me. But getting back to his thoughts, he emphasized memories, memorials, throughout the service. We were all asked to speak out and mention names of loved ones who have passed away. Many people spoke out. We must have had a good 25, maybe 30 people in attendance today. Our music went well too. Heather, our music director, led us in an enchanting and mesmerizing anthem about the Goddess, our returning, etc. Right now as I write this I can’t remember the details. So much happened today, I just can’t reproduce specifics. But we did pick up a new church member today, a very nice person named Trudi, didn’t get her last name. Our Growth Group met after church and Trudi became a new member of that. “An Inconvenient Truth” was shown at 1pm for those who hadn’t seen it. And now people are chatting and laughing upstairs while Clarissa and Eryn prepare supper so that Cynthia doesn’t have to do it.

]]> http://mcseavey.org/blog/http:/mcseavey.org/blog/global-warming/mem-day/feed/ Here if You Need Me http://mcseavey.org/blog/http:/mcseavey.org/blog/religion/here-if-you-need-me/ http://mcseavey.org/blog/http:/mcseavey.org/blog/religion/here-if-you-need-me/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:14:37 +0000 Mardé http://mcseavey.org/blog/index.php/here-if-you-need-me/412/ Here’s Kate Braestrup, the only combination Game Warden and UU minister that I know of, and to boot she’s from the Great State of Maine! Listen to her talk about her work and about God:

Click here to view the embedded video.

A totally inspiring lady. Here’s her book: Here If You Need Me: A True Story.

For more great UU stuff, check out uuplanet.tv. :grin:

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