Soul Food Saturday

[edenfalling]

Marcia picked me up at 12:30 and we headed out to the Cayuga Nature Center. They had bagels and other snack-type foods, and I stuck around for two workshops. The first one was "Emerson in a Nutshell," which was cool 'cause I haven't done Emerson for a few years now.

The second was the worship workshop the UUSG was running. It ended up being just us and Nat's mom, but that was okay, since we were actually doing a worship ceremony as well as talking about ideas you can use to design your own. This one was based on the four elements idea, with air cleansing and creating the sacred space, fire for our passion and committment, water for compassion and healing, and earth for groundedness and connections.

It was cool. We lit candles, shared life experiences, and sang a lot. Plus we got to play with clay for the earth part, which is always fun. Except Nat doesn't have a kiln, so we had to smush our creations so he could take the clay back to wherever he got it from. :-(

Sadly, I have reading to do so I left with Josh before the third workshop session.

Um. It occurs to me that I should perhaps list UUSG members: me, Josh, Jasmine, Nat, Emily, Jesse, Sharon, Eric (those last four were not at Soul Food Saturday), and our friendly neighborhood ministers, the Rev. Dick Gilbert and the Rev. Marcia Curtis. Also Kara and Carrie, but they were doing study abroad this year. And assorted others who show up now and then. We're a fairly young group, only founded back in fall of 1998, but I think we're doing pretty well.

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[annearchy.livejournal.com]

The UU student and young adult group here has the unfortunate acronym of MUUYAACM-- pronounced moo-YACK'em. (Obviously a tip to the Dairy State ;) It means Madison Unitarian Universalist Young Adult & Campus Ministry. What a mouthful. Why they had to change it from Channing -Murray is beyond me. Anyway I sort of wish I was young enough to be in MUUYACM, because their minister is insanely cool - Rev. Scott G. Prinster, who I just adore. Kinda wish we could lure him to our little fellowship, but alas, he's already committed to MUUYACM. I'm glad you are enjoying UUSG so much.

[edenfalling]

MUUYAACM... that's a heck of a name, all right. Technically, our group is the Unitarian Universalist Student Group of Cornell University and Ithaca College, but that's WAY too long for any of us. (Plus the IC contingent is only one person at the moment.) So we trim it to UUSG. The local church is toying with starting a young adult group that's not specifically college and grad-student oriented, which is why we still call ourselves a "student group" despite having had some non-student members at various points.

Rev. Gilbert isn't our minister specifically, as we're associated with the local church. He's just really nice and drops in on our meetings. *hugs Dick for being an old softie*