Circore Creative

We are hiring!
For the first time in several years, the Paradise Farm education program is in need of a teacher.
Wednesday mornings, from Sept. 2024 through May 2025. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Parent-Child program (age group depends on the experience of the teacher)
Responsibilities:
-Plan and guide a multi-aged group in outdoor parent-child activities for a 2.5 hour program every Wednesday. To include circle time, farm chores, storytelling, handwork/crafts, multi-disciplinary lessons, games and nature exploration.
-Prepare the spaces and supplies for the morning activities
-Clean up at the end of the morning

Qualifications:
-Love of nature and outdoor education is essential
-Experience in an outdoor setting greatly preferred
-Love of animals is essential. Experience with animals is preferred.
-LifeWays/Waldorf training preferred
-Parent/child experience preferred
-Ability to go with the flow, adapt plans due to changing weather and needs of the farm are essential
- Reliability and dependability is a must

Compensation:
$20/hour plus mileage
A vibrant, inclusive community
A chance to get outside in nature for one full morning every week
Autonomy in lesson planning
Supportive colleagues
Free tuition for your child(ren) is a possibility

Interested in learning more? Contact Mary at [email protected].

Human rights groups said they are alarmed by the Ugandan court’s citing of the U.S. abortion ruling. “This could point to influence on Uganda’s judiciary by the U.S. extremist hate groups who funded that U.S. Supreme Court challenge,” said a statement from Convening for Equality, a coalition of Ugandan rights organizations.

The court’s decision to nullify four clauses in the law was “merely window dressing” in a bid to persuade international donors to restore funding to Uganda, the group said.

The Ugandan law has led to hundreds of arrests and attacks on LGBTQ+ people. Human rights groups have documented a lengthy list of cases of Ugandans being evicted from their homes, dismissed from their jobs, detained or tortured by police or attacked on the streets. The law has also led to attempts at similar anti-gay legislation in other African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and South Sudan.

Ugandan court upholds anti-gay law, citing U.S. anti-abortion ruling Critics have said that Ugandan politicians have been heavily influenced by the U.S. Christian evangelical movement

This idea is simple and brilliant. If you get one of the new green alleys let us know how it works out.

What are 'green' alleys? Milwaukee to install 9 this year The city and property owners share the cost of replacing basic alleys, but to make them green, MMSD covers the difference.

Rev. Denise Cawley of Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist in Palatine, IL and Rev. Matt Aspin of Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church in Hartland, WI will lead a discussion of this year’s UU Common Read, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Beacon Press, 2022). These four very special classes will guide participants through a deeper reflection on ways of examining hurt, harm, apologies, repentance, repair and then looking at that from the personal, the community and the larger national issues they impact. Each week, we will supply resources to prepare you for the next class. https://buff.ly/3wKNOwh

Sometimes stretching yourself to get what you want means taking a risk. Did you watch the beautiful story about taking chances that Rev. Denise told?

Grow Our Beloved Community February 4, 2024 Our annual stewardship campaign kicks off this Sunday, Feb. 4. This is the time for members and friends to affirm and renew their membership...

We've all been there, right? We're in a large room with lots of people and someone stands to speak. When the mic runner hands them the microphone, they say, "I don't need it, I have a teacher voice!"

Whatever a teacher voice is (this is a concept we should interrogate anyway), it is not an accessibility feature. Use the microphone!

Microphones amplify your typical conversational voice. Shouting or loud talking does not have the clarity that an amplified voice does. In fact, a loud/shouting voice can be muffled and more difficult to hear. It also does not carry as well as a microphone amplified voice. The microphone creates a bit of a surround sound effect so that background noise can be differentiated from the sound of the speaking voice.

Shouting is also inconsistent, making it harder to hear. As you lose your breath and right before you inhale, your words may drift and become impossible to hear. A microphone provides consistent amplification so that everyone can follow your words.

Discomfort with a microphone is no excuse for being ableist and inaccessible. It's a tool for ensuring inclusion. Use it!

If you don't have a mic runner (there is only one microphone in a presentation, for instance) it is imperative to repeat the audience question into the microphone to ensure everyone heard and has the context.

1. Use the microphone. Every time.
2. Provide a microphone to audience participants as well.
3. Repeat questions if participants are unmic'd.
4. Be inclusive.

Everyone has days, or news cycles or holidays even where hope is hard to recall. That is normal. Rev. Denise helps to offer you some unusual places she found hope and maybe you will too. Love yourself during times you might feel hope is dim.

Finding your hope December 10, 2023 Finding your hope by Rev. Denise Cawley Does your holiday spirit feel lost? Are you waiting for it to hit you? Are you preparing for wonder...

What a wonderful local business person: https://buff.ly/3QOTtt3

Thinking about your posture is a meditation. We think any attention to how you are aligned is helpful . We are curious what you think of the video?

How a 14-Minute Video on Posture Changed My Life Hint: It wasn’t because it fixed the way I stood or sat. It has nothing to do with posture at all.

Just when you didn’t think Yo yo ma couldn’t get any more awesome 📸

Yo-Yo Ma Just Released a Song With a Drag Queen and an Indigenous Trans Musician Ma, Pattie Gonia, and Quinn Christopherson team up for a pop anthem about not giving up in the face of the climate crisis.

Mental health and trauma are common in many families. RevD offers resources, hope and encouragement in this sermon to address is. Please pass this one on. You never know who many need to hear it.

Brain Tune UP! 2023-11-12 Brain Tune UP!

This was one of the funniest services yet as well as inspirational. We hope you did not miss it but if you did - listen now.

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? 2023-11-05 Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

You were an amazing leader Ronnie Grace. The LGBT community was blessed by you:

Ronnie Grace, longtime Milwaukee AIDS/HIV and LGBTQ advocate dies after battle with cancer Ronnie Grace was a beloved advocate who helped gay men in Milwaukee battle HIV/AIDS. He died in Texas where he was receiving cancer treatment.

Are you doing for November? Join us

Dr. Amy gave one patient with IT band syndrome a stretch to help after treatment. Are you taking care of your body? We are rooting for you!

Rev. Denise writing: I really want all my loved ones, people who care about justice and anyone whose worried about the direction of our planet to watch this lecture and consider it. We can do things to support one another and stick together.

Rev. Cecilia Kingman's Berry Street Essay challenges Unitarian Universalists examine our own lives and our faith to recognize tactics and unthinking attachment to antiquated power structures.

“Follow the leadership of those who have been struggling under historic oppression—those most under attack,” advised Rev. Kingman. “No one knows better how to see through the lies, how to resist, how to protect one another.”

Defeating Fascism The 2023 Berry Street Essay urges UUs to recognize and confront an imminent threat.

I spent a long time running.

I spent years of my life pushing aspects of me away.
Banishing, locking up, hiding and punishing the parts of me I didn’t like.

The parts of me hurt by past trauma, the parts of me in pain.

The grief, the wounded, the angry, the sorrowful; all of these I locked up in the dungeons of my body.
And every now and then I would think about how to get rid, with hardness, those distasteful chunks of me.

But there came a time when I learnt there was another way.

This abandonment of my soul was not serving me.
I started to see that these bits of me were just a place inside that needed to be acknowledged, seen, heard and cared for.

These parts were born from times of pain and destruction, and I was carrying on the abuse by hiding and neglecting them.

I needed instead, to bring them closer to my heart; to love them.

And when I held what I had felt as a monster, into my heart, as I embraced with love the abandoned broken creatures into my being, I could live a fuller life, a life more whole.

As I called back the fragments of my soul that had been broken off in moments of terror and fear, they joined the rest of me, melting into strength, power and courage.

And now I can trust myself, knowing that I am there to no longer banish the ugly, the scared and the difficult.

But instead I now know, I am there for myself every step of the way, there for all that I am, no longer willing to lock away the uncomfortable.

Instead meeting and embracing those parts as a guide, leading me to where I need more care, more love and more grace.

Guiding me towards medicine and growth.

~ Brigit Anna McNeill
www.linktr.ee/brigitannamcneill

Art by Arna Baartz Artist
www.linktr.ee/arnabaartz

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Hi Friends,

The worst case scenario happened yesterday.

Three white conservative men, barely a quorum of a county zoning committee consisting of only five white conservative men, voted to revoke the Minocqua Brewing Company’s permit to do business.

The evidence of political targeting and selective enforcement by the Town of Minocqua and Oneida County is staggering, and we presented it all at yesterday’s meeting.

Our supporters sent over 8,000 emails to the county board pleading for them to come to their senses.

Over 5,000 of you signed a petition pleading for this board to take their partisan blinders off and simply act like rational adults.

The folks who showed up at both hearings to shut us down overwhelmingly supported our business and spoke clearly and passionately about why what these men were doing was wrong.

Not trusting that the zoning committee would allow me to speak after they posted a public agenda that intimated that they wouldn’t allow me to speak, I had 8 volunteers recount every logical angle of why, through either gross incompetence, maliciousness, or a combination of both, our permits were illegally processed, and why the violations used as evidence against us should be nullified.

These three men, barely a quorum, LISTENED TO NONE OF IT.

They knew they would revoke our permit to do business before they arrived at the meeting yesterday, but they needed a “public hearing” to provide legal cover to do their dirty work.

All of this is absolutely galling, and enough to make one speechless.

So what are we doing now?

We are appealing this decision to the county administrative committee that oversees the zoning committee.

In conjunction to that probably-fruitless effort (most of the administrative committee is also deeply Republican and part of the Old Boy’s Network), we will be asking a federal court for an injunction to stop the county from enforcing this hateful decision.

Why a federal court?

This is 100% a First Amendment constitutional issue. Our town and county are retaliating against us for being loudly progressive in a deeply red MAGA Republican area.

We now have to dive fully into intense legal action, and my company’s top source of revenue, our Tap Room in Minocqua, has technically been shut down.

I will try to stay open as we’re filing appeals, but I’m not sure how long that will last.

I think what has been done to my company is wrong, and I believe they did this to stop my company’s public activism that helped elect Governor Evers, State Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, and to stop our upcoming lawsuit to rid Wisconsin of its parasitic private school voucher system.

From my point of view, this is much larger than a local zoning battle. What was done yesterday was an affront to everything I take pride in as an American…transparency, due process, fairness, industry, a can-do spirit, independence....
..and from an even deeper set of values, I strongly believe that these guys just broke the Golden Rule, which is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

If you believe in my company's simple goal to exist without harassment, I could use some help to offset what I believe will be some very hefty legal expenses. Please chip in here if you can.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/saveminocquabrewing

Thanks for your continued support.

Kirk Bangstad
Owner, Minocqua Brewing Company
Founder, Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC

When you go see and wonder how it is that so many Unitarian Universalist Values show up, don’t forget is a Unitarian Universalist!

Greta Gerwig, UU film star Greta Gerwig stars in the 2013 black and white film ‘Frances Ha,’ which features the Unitarian Universalist congregation she grew up in.

Set a timer.

Even if your mornings are chaotic, research suggests that just five minutes of meditation can decrease stress and anxiety the rest of the day. Ms. Ivanovic likes to use an hourglass so she can gaze at the moving sand, but a digital alarm on your phone works too, she said — “just make it something gentle, like a chime or a bell.”

And don’t be afraid to go halfway. “If you’re in a highly anxious state or feeling pain, even five minutes can feel too long,” she said. “Set your timer for two and a half minutes, see how you feel, then hit repeat.”

The Benefits of Morning Meditation Starting a regular practice doesn’t have to be hard — it can take as little as five minutes as soon as you wake up.

Learn more about this amazing activist in Milwaukee.

Pride Month profile: For Brenda Coley, activism started at a young age

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Pride Month profile: For Brenda Coley, activism started at a young age Brenda Coley as been facilitating dialogue amongst community members and allies for 30+ years. She has a gift for explaining one group of people to another. Gay people to straight people, Black peopl…

Swim parallel to the current.

McKinley Beach Is Expected to Reopen Later This Summer - Milwaukee Magazine After reconstruction to reduce its deadly rip currents, the beach is back (almost).

Great cause

Send a Q***r Disabled Minister & Spouse to GA 2023 - Faithify, UU Crowdfunding Steven & Karyn spent 9 years getting him to Preliminary Fellowship. Get them to GA so he can roll across the stage at Service of the Living Tradition!

Friends of the Domes and Milwaukee County Parks want to hear your opinion on the future of The Mitchell Park Domes. Please take a quick survey. Thank you for participating! The deadline to complete the survey is Wednesday, May 31. http://www.milwaukeedomes.org/survey

Great trans minister needs our support;

Send a Q***r Disabled Minister & Spouse to GA 2023 - Faithify, UU Crowdfunding Steven & Karyn spent 9 years getting him to Preliminary Fellowship. Get them to GA so he can roll across the stage at Service of the Living Tradition!

May you find beauty all around you.