Prairie Star District Conference Down, Only 799,999 things on the to-do list now.

Back from Omaha, back to the grind. It was sort of refreshing to get to focus on the problems of the world and of my religious affiliation for a couple of days. By which I think I mean it was nice to only have to be responsible for one set of things that was right in front of me, rather than having to be responsible for all the divergent sets of things that I'm responsible for day in and day out, which include but by all the gods certainly are not limited to the problems of the world and of my religious affiliation.

And of course, there was the matter of the workshop. We were allegedly there to lead a workshop about creating and leading earth-based ritual. Despite the fact that many UUs are totally embarrassed about the pagans in the UU woodpile, our workshop was reasonably well-attended by people who actually were interested in the subject matter, who generally seemed to enjoy the experience, and who made copious notes and various exclamations of excitement over the take-home material.

We seemed to have one of the few workshops that wasn't selling something: a book, a DVD, a longer workshop for your congregation, a curriculum, or a visit by a specially-trained consultant. I'm not sure if that fact represents some sort of failure on the part of our denomination, or some sort of failure on the part of my congregation.

I have a lot more to say about the conference, and the district, and the denomination, but I don't want to bore you guys with it.

Prairie Star District Conference Down, Only 799,999 things on the to-do list now.

Back from Omaha, back to the grind. It was sort of refreshing to get to focus on the problems of the world and of my religious affiliation for a couple of days. By which I think I mean it was nice to only have to be responsible for one set of things that was right in front of me, rather than having to be responsible for all the divergent sets of things that I'm responsible for day in and day out, which include but by all the gods certainly are not limited to the problems of the world and of my religious affiliation.

And of course, there was the matter of the workshop. We were allegedly there to lead a workshop about creating and leading earth-based ritual. Despite the fact that many UUs are totally embarrassed about the pagans in the UU woodpile, our workshop was reasonably well-attended by people who actually were interested in the subject matter, who generally seemed to enjoy the experience, and who made copious notes and various exclamations of excitement over the take-home material.

We seemed to have one of the few workshops that wasn't selling something: a book, a DVD, a longer workshop for your congregation, a curriculum, or a visit by a specially-trained consultant. I'm not sure if that fact represents some sort of failure on the part of our denomination, or some sort of failure on the part of my congregation.

I have a lot more to say about the conference, and the district, and the denomination, but I don't want to bore you guys with it.

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I sometimes have these experiences in which somebody presents something to me as a fact, with a statistic attached, and I just go, "Dude. There is no way that could possibly be true." This poll is an extremely unscientific reaction to one of those moments. I'll tell you the rest of the story tomorrow, but please provide your input if you can.

Note: for the purposes of this poll, "deep, meaningful conversation" means whatever you think it means.
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(no subject)

I sometimes have these experiences in which somebody presents something to me as a fact, with a statistic attached, and I just go, "Dude. There is no way that could possibly be true." This poll is an extremely unscientific reaction to one of those moments. I'll tell you the rest of the story tomorrow, but please provide your input if you can.

Note: for the purposes of this poll, "deep, meaningful conversation" means whatever you think it means.
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