Category Archives: Promotions for Friends and Colleagues

Best Wishes to Sue Phillips!!!

July 3, 2017Blog, Promotions for Friends and Colleaguessue phillips uua, unitarian universalist new england regiontwinkle

We received an email from our New England Regional Lead, Sue Phillips, with the message that she is moving on from the UUA to become a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.

Sue was the key person behind many of our denominations most creative innovations, including spearheading the FAITHIFY crowd funding platform that was launched at General Assembly 2014 and to date has more than $1 million pledged to over 200 campaigns. The UU Talks entrepreneurial project “Twinkle” Marie Manning is the founder of was one of those successful FAITHIFY campaigns and will ever be grateful to Sue for making that possible.

What a wonderful exemplar of innovative leadership Sue Phillips has been for us. May we follow her example of following our passionate callings. And may we heed her advice to be committed to each other and to our Faith. ❤️🙏🏼

To view her letter, click the link below:

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/My-Departure-and-a-New-Chapter-in-Unitarian-Universalism.html?soid=1102593057446&aid=g28L7YBbxCA

Voting Day Pittsfield June 13th, 2017

June 13, 2017Blog, Promotions for Friends and Colleagues, Twinkle's Musingscentral maine voting june 13th 2017, education matters, kids matter, support our schools, vote because you cantwinkle

Today is a voting day in Pittsfield, and while it may not have all the allure and intensity of November’s election, I feel it is important to vote.

I vote because I appreciate the teachers and staff who care for our children in our local schools and cast a vote to support their salaries and programs. I vote because I appreciate that we have a publicly funded education system available to our children and my ballot adds to the voices of all those who value it. I vote because I would have been vocal in the suffragist movement, so in solidarity and gratitude, I vote today.

#suffragist

International Flower Communion Celebration at Twinkle’s Place

May 30, 2017Contemplative Services, Holidays and Holy Days, Ministry, Promotions for Friends and Colleagues, Worship Servicestwinkle

Twinkle’s Place has accepted the invitation to join our siblings in faith from around the globe to participate in an International Flower Communion.

In honor of the 95th Anniversary of the Flower Communion on Sunday being celebrated in Prague this year on June 4th, 2017.

Join us at Twinkle’s Place for a sunset walk of our gardens and to the Sebasticook River. Followed by a Flower Communion Service and Celebration of our international heritage.

If you cannot make it to Twinkle’s Place, yet wish to participate on your own, visit this link for information:

http://www.uua.org/international/blog/international-flower-communion

The Flower Communion is one of Unitarian Universalists most favorite things!

History of the Flower Communion:

http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/documents/zottolireginald/flowercommunion.pdf

http://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/children/lovesurrounds/session7/flower-ceremony

http://www.uua.org/worship/holidays/flower-ceremony

A MESSAGE TO OUR UU SIBLINGS WORLDWIDE:

“A Litany of Gratitude”

May 21, 2017Blog, Promotions for Friends and Colleaguestwinkle

These beautiful words by Rev. Mel Pine :

A Litany of Gratitude

Some came here looking for solace.
Some came here and gave it to them.

Some came here seeking music.
Some came here and gave it, joyfully.

Some came here seeking laughter.
Some came here and created it.

Some came here seeking learning, growth.
Some came here and provided it.

Some came here looking for a sense of security, a safe haven.
Some came here and provided it.

Some came here seeking an escape from hectic lives.
Some came here and enabled them to have it.

Some came here seeking the joy of community.
Some came here and created that.

Some came here wanting to serve.
Some came here and made it possible for them.

We thank them all

– – –

Please visit Rev. Mel Pine’s website:

https://meltingpotdharma.com/

Twinkle’s Audios on Soundcloud

March 18, 2017Blog, Music for the Soul, Promotions for Friends and Colleagues, Readings Recorded, Twinkle's Musingstwinkle

A mix of music, poetry, sermons and musings:

https://twinklesplace.org/audios-on-soundcloud/

an Invitation to Twinkle’s Place: Open House for Women’s March on Maine

January 18, 2017Blog, Contemplative Services, Ministry, Promotions for Friends and Colleaguestwinkle

Should you seek respite on your journey Saturday – We are here for you!

We know many of our UU friends and compassionate colleagues will be traveling distances on Saturday to attend the Women’s March in Augusta. If you are seeking a place to stop, have a warm cup of coffee or tea, and relax for a short while, perhaps even sit in our meditation room, before you proceed to or from the Maine State Capitol, please know there is a friendly, welcoming home for you to visit enroute.

Twinkle’s Place is just of I-95 in Pittsfield: Exit 150 (40 minutes south of Bangor / 40 minutes north of Augusta).

IF you think you may wish to stop in, let me know and we will be prepared. BUT also feel free to decide spur-of-the-moment depending on how you feel on Saturday.

Open House:

Saturday, January 21st

7:00am-7:00pm

Twinkle’s Place

164 Lancey Street

Pittsfield, Maine

cell: (760) 889-5428

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TwinkleMarie