Of chakras, ofrendas, candlelit concerts, and ghosts.
LAST SUNDAY'S SERVICE
[image: Kim Airs with her vulva puppet]
Kim Airs returned for an entertaining and educational demonstration of that subequatorial interdependent web we all have in preparation for UUVerdugo hosting OWL classes in the future. Airs, a sex educator featured in Wired, The Guardian, and on HBO, is the owner of the sex-positive emporium Grand Opening (perhaps NSFW).
THIS SUNDAY'S SERVICE, OCTOBER 29
[image: 10/29 UUVerdugo service promo featuring Calavera Catrina]
We once again build an ofrenda together for this year's Dia de los Muertos celebration. Bring a small memento of a departed dear one as we tell short stories of their lives and learn about the Mesoamerican tradition from which grew the Calaveras Catrina ("elegant skull") that characterizes this poignant holiday.
Note: If you would like to send a digital photo for the display, get it to me by early Wednesday morning and I will frame it for Sunday.
THIS TUESDAY
[image: McGroarty Arts Center logo]
Our very own Corey Stein speaks about her myriad art projects, particularly her beadwork, at the McGroarty Arts Center, 7570 McGroarty Terrace, Tujunga, CA 91042, at 7:30. Corey's art is magical, whimsical, provocative, political, and fun. This event is sponsored by the Sunland-Tujunga Arts & Recreation Council.
THIS WEDNESDAY
[image: Movie Night promo featuring "Truly, Madly, Deeply"]
Not your typical ghost story, the exquisite "Truly, Madly, Deeply" is October's Movie Night movie, starting at 6. See Professor Snape in a film where people like having him around! RSVP your attendance and preference for meat-bedecked or cheese pizza.
LAST WEEKEND'S HUUT!
[image: Marty congratulates intrepid Kahoot winner Heidi]
[image: the ghostly Tom Bishel]
Now that was fun. We darkened the sanctuary for an evening of great music and spooky stories. We even had a visit from Lake Superior, who did in the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 and had something to say about it. We also laud Heidi Mastrogiovanni, winner of the HUUT Kahoot!
ART CRIMES and ART JUSTICE
[image: Friendship Hall puzzle table]
One of the coolest things to arise from a recent mini-reconfiguration of Friendship Hall is a puzzle table, around which a group of congregants gather to collaboratively put together a puzzle while the quotidian business of UUVerdugo unfolds around them. Puzzlers come and go, talking about the community garden, the postcarding group, Friendship Dinners, whether UUVerdugo is in Glendale or Los Angeles (that's a trick: UUVerdugo is in the City of Glendale but within Los Angeles County, and is three blocks east of Tujunga, the northernmost neighborhood of Los Angeles, but as few blocks west of Unincorporated La Crescenta, which is patrolled by LA County Sheriffs).
Regardless, puzzlists were heartbroken when, a month ago, a puzzle they'd almost completed disappeared, scooped up by a departing renter. Undaunted, they began work on the puzzle above. As we are having a recital/potluck for a piano school this Sunday, the 29th, I implore the puzzle group to remove and preserve their work before the pieces are swallowed by youthful piano students or otherwise covered in Sunny Delight.
That said, at one of the recent art groups, two of our members, a newbie and a veteran, collaborated on this rock-as-political-statement. Art cannot but reflect the world it springs from and the hope that remains, even in dark places.
[image: Justice rock from the art group]
Next week comes our November newsletter, with a calendar and important information about our work with Making It Happen as that local powerhouse works to make Thanksgiving and the December holidays brighter.