<div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif">HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mary Alice "God Danced The Day You Were Born" đđđ</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif"> I am still solitary and not going near people.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif">And now a Holly Near story. Barbara and I went to hear her at Lyndon State 10-15 years ago and she introduced "Gentle, Angry... saying "This song is in the Unitarian Hymnal and Unitarians are always coming up to me with their words or the words of their choir director or whomever and I love hearing those. So if any of you are here tonight, come on up when we are done"  Highly unusual for a songwriter to say it's ok to change my words. No, I did not go up with different words (smile).<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Stephen L. Finner, Ph.D.</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:finnerstephen@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">finnerstephen@gmail.com</a><br><div>(802) 598-4317 (cell)  (802) 224-4396 (home-wifi)</div><div>27 Highland Avenue, Apartment 3</div><div>Barre, Vermont 05641</div><div><br></div><div>Minister of Music Emeritus, St. Johnsbury Vermont UU Congregation</div><div>(he, him, his)</div><div>"There must always remain in everyone's life some room for the singing of angels"  Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman</div><div>"May you know the joy of living sometimes comes with pain lived through"  </div><div>Steve Finner (1998)</div><div>"Nothing stays the same after we find the God within" Sr. Joan Chittister O.S.B.</div><div>And just in case you were wondering <font color="#1c1e21" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">"Faith without works is dead" James 2:26<br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 3:43 PM Mary Alice Bisbee via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I won't be there unless it is way above 32 degrees, as I cannot tolerate the cold. And it is my birthday, also!<div>Mary Alice</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 3:11 PM Maryann Ludlow via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I love that song; iâm a big Holly Near fan! Unfortunately work on Wednesdays at UVMMC, so I wonât be able to join you all. <br>
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Canât wait to hear it, though!<br>
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Maryann<br>
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> On Jan 15, 2022, at 10:42 AM, Donia Prince via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The service on Jan 23rd will be focussed on reproductive rights. For the closing hymn we would like to get a bunch of UCM'ers on the front steps of the church singing "We are a gentle angry people ''.<br>
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> If you would like to do this, be in front of the church ready to sing (masked) at noon this coming Wednesday. Eliza will be playing keyboard (set up just inside the front doors) but if anyone wants to also play guitar or any other instrument (no wind instruments unless you have a bell mask) you are welcome!  Friends and guests welcome!<br>
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> Weather should be in the 20's so will be feeling balmy;)<br>
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> Donia<br>
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