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Our next Sunday Morning Dialog is March 15th. CLICK HERE for more information.
March 15th, 10:30am
In person and livestreamed on YouTube
The 2026 Dr. Myra Zinke Lecture: But Girls Can’t Be Lawyers!
Kendra Reinshagen, guest speaker
This was my response in 1968 when a friend in high school told me she wanted to attend law school. Nine years later I applied to DePaul University College of Law, was accepted, and started attending law school. I will talk about how—and why—I went from “Girls can’t do that” to…doing…“that.”
Music: Elaine Held, Sister Singers
Kendra Reinshagen is a lawyer who has dedicated her life to the needs of women and families, focusing on domestic violence, anti-trafficking, and elder and poverty law. The last ten years of her working career she was Executive Director of the Legal Aid Bureau of the Metropolitan Family Services in Chicago. Kendra and her husband Steve moved to New Jersey from the Chicago area a few years ago to be near their daughter. Steve teaches Tai Chi.
This service is funded by a bequest from Dr. Myra Zinke who hoped to promote gender equality with her generosity.
A Bake Sale will follow the service in the Community Room.
March 15th, 9:00am
UUCMC Community Room
My Trip to Kyoto, Japan
Marinel Mukherjee
Marinel will share her experiences focusing on the neighborhood where she stayed, food, temples and temple gardens, people and cultural experiences, as well as side trips to Uji, Nara, and Hiroshima.
Marinel Mukherjee is a retired Head Start teacher and administrator, long time UU, gardener, storyteller, UU soup lunch coordinator, and 15-year Zen practitioner, which, for the last 4 years, includes daily meditation on zoom with the New York Zen Center where she met her travel companions.
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March Theme: PAYING ATTENTION
The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness. Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving its gifts with open eyes and open heart.
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
For anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. that’s pretty much all the info u need.
When you pay attention to something you don’t especially value, it’s not an exaggeration to say that you’re paying with your life.
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
Your attention is like a combination spotlight and vacuum cleaner: It highlights what it lands on and then sucks it into your brain—for better or worse.
I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
In any moment, on any given day, I can measure my wellness by this question: Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?
