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Programming During COVID-19

Programming updates will be communicated as we know them. As of now, to practice social distancing, all March programs have been cancelled.

Here is a poem from Rev. Theresa Soto at First Unitarian Church of Berkeley that we would like to close with:

2 hrs
she wanted to know if
I understood how important

the event was.

and I looked at my hands, palms up,
for a second.

I thought about the saliva pooling
behind my bottom teeth.

droplet transmission

and rulers—three feet, six feet.
six is the radius of transmission.

I want you to be the number of feet away
that keeps us alive

as many of us as possible.

last week, I sat in the doorway and
squirted people’s hands with sanitizer
as they dispersed. reflections of the divine
and vectors.

pandemic sacrament

next week, all the sanitizer may be gone.

your friends getting treated in a hospital hallway.

doctors wearing diapers, collapsing, sometimes dying.

When I ask you to stay home
to stop the social spread of COVID-19,

I still know that you are strong and
beautiful and brave.

I know that you have taught yourself to
understand that love is an action.

but, today, beloved, today, love is an
inaction—of stopping, of staying, of
holding, not hands, but hearts.

of holding the space between us, not only
as a buffer, but also as holy.

there is so much we don’t know about
the tiny parasite taking over cells,
reproducing at an alarmingly rapid rate.

I know more about you; that your insistence
on business as usual maybe be tinged with
other things, but is mostly dedication.

you must now dedicate yourself to the survival
of this community in the painstaking way of
an artist painting on a grain of rice.

I do know how important
your life is, thrown together
with ours.

we are a fragile masterpiece.
(the vulnerable age was
lowered to 50 yesterday.)

please stay home.

—on a day of social distancing
rces with your neighbors so they can benefit from them
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  • Home
  • About
    • Steering Committee
    • Partners
  • Events
    • Programming during COVID-19
    • The Joys and Blessings of Pets
    • ICMH Neighborhood Cluster Program for Butler-Tarkington area
    • POSTPONED: Violence in the Indianapolis Community
    • POSTPONED: Death, Dying, and Grief
  • Resources
    • In Your Congregation
    • Crisis Lines
    • Seminar Archive
  • Connect
    • Become a Member
  • Donate
  • COVID-19 Resources
    • NAMI's Coping Strategies for COVID-19
    • Mental Health Apps