Monthly Thematic Resources
The UUA Theme for the month of March is TRUST. Check out these resources to deepen your understanding of this theme.
Videos:
The Anatomy of Trust, Brené Brown
Trust is built in the small moments not the grand gestures.
"Why Trust Is Worth It" with Cirque Du Soleil
A spoken and movement meditation on trust.
Wait, Galway Kinnell
Drowning Fish, Rudy Francisco
Performance at Queen Bee's Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA
Articles & Podcasts:
"Was Malcolm Gladwell right? Can you trust your intuition?" By Eric Barker
In Malcolm Gladwell’s fascinating bestseller Blink, he describes many situations where you do your best thinking when you don’t think at all. But he also shows plenty of scenarios where your instincts are way off.
What does the research say? How do you know when to trust your gut — and when not to?
You can trust your intuition… Sometimes
The Importance of Trusting Yourself: Nick Cave on the Relationship Between Creativity and Faith from The Marginalian
“Faith is the willingness to give ourselves over, at times, to things we do not fully understand,” the poetic physicist Alan Lightman wrote in his magnificent recollection of his transcendent encounter with a young osprey. A generation before him, in differentiating it from belief, Alan Watts defined faith as “an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be.”
Anne Lamott on Trusting Love, An exclusive look at her new book
"My husband said something a few years ago that I often quote: Eighty percent of everything that is true and beautiful can be experienced on any ten-minute walk. Even in the darkest and most devastating times, love is nearby if you know what to look for. It does not always appear at first to be lovely but instead may take the form of a hot mess or a snoring old dog or someone you have sworn to never, ever forgive (for a possibly very good reason, if you ask me). But mixed in will also be familiar signs of love: wings, good-hearted people, cats (when they are in the right mood), a spray of wildflowers, a cup of tea.
What are we even talking about when we talk about love? What is it?"
I asked a six-year-old friend of mine.
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