This is the Sunday, the day before Memorial Day, when I recall some of the accomplishments of some of the people who have died since the last service of this sort. As Emerson said in his Divinity School Address, “Society lives to trifles … when [people] die and we do not mention them.”
Lucky for me, [...]
This is the Sunday, the day before Memorial Day, when I recall some of the accomplishments of some of the people who have died since the last service of this sort. As Emerson said in his Divinity School Address, “Society lives to trifles … when [people] die and we do not mention them.”
Lucky for me, [...]
Those of you who were at the nice gathering downstairs on Friday - and thank you to all those who helped - got to hear Charlie Anderson do his usual entertaining turn as auctioneer. At one point there was some confusion as to which of two bidders had won a particular vacation stay, and Charlie [...]
All year members of the congregation here have been encouraged to join in an effort to envision the future we want for ourselves at First Parish. Hard-working groups of teams have been listening and compiling and sifting and getting ready for a report on their progress at Annual Meeting in two weeks, looking ahead to [...]