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Day 28: Get Artsy!

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Today is Day 28 of the Thirty Days of Love. Today’s action is to get artsy! Share artwork for the Standing on the Side of Love mural, or send us art in whatever form moves you the most—be it poetry, music, dance, video, etc. Click here more resources and inspiration to get you started!


For our robust Unitarian Universalist Fellowship up here in the far northwest corner of the country, standing on the side of love means art!

We are a diverse congregation, and we celebrate our differences, but we all agree to stand on the side of love. We do that through a common denominator of creativity. Hearing from all the messengers throughout the Thirty Days of Love really inspired us, so we wanted to come up with a way to give back and share OUR love. We held several events to come together and make love art in our community, and then we decided to open it up to everyone involved with the Thirty Days of Love!

We’re creating a Standing on the Side of Love mural (here’s a photo of one of our works-in-progress), but it won’t be complete until we have YOUR addition. You can write, collage, paint, draw—so long as it fits on an 8×10 piece of paper (vertical/portrait orientation), is family friendly, and contains at least one heart shape, it works. ALL are invited. We want you to participate, whether you think of yourself as an artist or not.

Send your love mural submissions to love@uua.org by next Wednesday, Feb. 20 and check back next week, when we will post the finished product. And if visual art isn’t what inspires you, feel free to send us art in whatever form moves YOU the most—be it a song, poem, video, dance, or something creative we haven’t even thought up yet!

Sincerely,

Beth, Michelle, Alicia, Tuesday, Michael, Heidi, Ro, Daniel, the Magee Girls, & our Love Team
Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
Bellingham, Washington

A Parting Gift

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Today is my last official day as Standing on the Side of Love Campaign Manager. As a small token of thanks for your incredible partnership and support over the last two years, I offer a parting gift.

I love music. I have a few hundred playlists for every occasion and mood, spanning many different genres and languages. Over the years, I have burned playlists for friends, family, and loved ones on birthdays, anniversaries, births, weddings, holidays, and other momentous occasions.

So, for all of you, who I count among my loved ones, on this occasion of my professional transition, I offer Dan’s Playlist for Love & Justice.

Click here to listen.

Each song in its own way has buoyed my spirits as an activist, and for me represents faith in humanity, a better world, and love as a guiding principle. Maybe this will inspire you to share your own playlist of songs that exemplify love and justice. I know I’d love to hear it.

Instead of a goodbye, I leave you with a favorite quote:

“I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides…a place of light, of love, of truth, of peace, of wisdom. I honor the place in you where when you are in that place I am in that place…there is only one of us.” – Gandhi

It’s been a most amazing two years. Many, many thanks for our shared community of Love People!

Keep shining,

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Dan Furmansky
Campaign Manager
Standing on the Side of Love

P.S. If you want to stay in touch, please feel free to friend me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dan.furmansky.3.


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