written by It seems somedays like this nation and this country has nothing but financial and social trouble, sometimes so much so  that it seems totally insurmountable. On days like this I need to laugh and I want you to laugh. So please submit you're favorite George W. Bush moments for a new running segment I dub          BURNING BUSH! This clip I found on a fluke and I think it speaks for itself. It's only 8 seconds long which is technically the speed of light if you use comic book logic. So in the speed of light George W. Bush unfurled this quoterrificness.

These are two entries I wrote in my old "meditations" blog documenting much of my spiritual journey that led me to Unitarian Universalism as my chosen faith as well as my journey as a Unitarian Universalist.  I feel they're worth reflecting on as we say goodbye to 2011 considering that 2011 was one of the best years of my life and easily the best year in quite a few years (at least since 2007 if not 2003) and that has been in large part because of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami and Unitarian Universalism in general.  The amount of faith and trust that the people of UUCM have put in me in the year and a half I've been there has truly changed my life.  I had only been here a few short months when they asked me to be on the ministerial search committee to find and call a new settled minister.  I was kind of amazed that they were entrusting me with such an important decision.  The whole process taught me so much and gave me so much valuable experie...