The Prince, Machiavelli Jim and I took a trip to Italy this summer, in June and July: Venice, Florence, Rome.… Read more The Prince
Author: Rick
My life-long passion is in the arts: music, theater, visual arts, and literature. I graduated from Cal Arts in 1985 with a degree in music composition. After a career in Human Resources with the AIDS Project Los Angeles and as a parish minister for Unitarian Universalist churches in the Los Angeles area, I retired in 2025 and pursued my artistic work: drawing, painting, composing, and creative writing.
Gifts of the Seasons
In serving the Fellowship this last year, I’ve become very familiar with the drive up the 5 freeway, from Santa… Read more Gifts of the Seasons
Get it Together
Healthy spiritual people learn to be ever vigilant in resisting the habit to make divisions. We divide people by race… Read more Get it Together
News Items
UUFKC Approves Budget for 2022-2023 Fiscal Year, Elects new officers, and authorizes creation of a Visioning Task ForceAt our congregational… Read more News Items
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather My husband, a teacher of American History at a middle school, was… Read more Death Comes for the Archbishop
Sweat the Small Stuff
Effective justice action comes in all shapes and sizes. Do what you can do. Do what fits your skills, your… Read more Sweat the Small Stuff
It’s the People
I was at a party recently talking to someone I didn’t know. Eventually she asked me what I do for… Read more It’s the People
Make a Choice to End Gun Violence
I’m heartsick this morning from the news of the shooting at the elementary school in Texas. I was already sick… Read more Make a Choice to End Gun Violence
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather The title comes with an exclamation point, like a musical. And it’s more than the… Read more O Pioneers!
Don’t Live in the Present
Spiritual wisdom suggests we find equanimity when we practice living in the moment neither clinging to past hurts or fretting… Read more Don’t Live in the Present