Kai’s Everglades

01/13/2026

🕯️ Vigil for Peace | UUPB
📍 First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches
🗓️ Jan 14 | 6:30–7:30 PM

Gather in solidarity with friends and neighbors to hold space for peace, hope, and unity. This in-person vigil is about showing up, standing together, and reminding our community that collective care is a peaceful act of resistance.

RSVP Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uupb-vigil-for-peace-tickets-1980406372772?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bring your people. Bring your spirit. Be part of Meeting the Moment.

01/12/2026

01/12/2026

👀👀👀👀 I smelled this coming

For a long time in Europe, “race” didn’t mean what most people mean by it now. A lot of the time it was closer to peoplehood: nation, tribe, lineage, religion, and “which Europeans are you” rather than a single “white” category.

So you’d see Europeans treating other Europeans as basically different “races” in practice. The English vs Irish, the French vs Germans, or later on the way Italians, Slavs, and Jews were talked about as fundamentally different kinds of people. Over time, especially with empire, slavery, and colonization, elites had an incentive to collapse those internal European divisions into one big category and draw the harder line between “European/white” and everyone else, because that made hierarchy easier to justify and manage.

The thing about returning America back, is that they really want to bring it back to those times, and some white people in America are in for a big wake-up call when they realize that even within whiteness there was a hierarchy.

01/11/2026

In “In the Bleak Season,” Donna Moriarty reflects on this truth from Megan Devine: that some pain cannot be fixed, only carried.

Writing from her own experience of profound loss, Moriarty describes what comes after life is changed by grief—not resolution or sudden healing, but the ordinary day that arrives anyway. The kettle goes on. The unfinished work waits. A single small task is chosen when everything feels heavy.

She writes about the long space between devastation and renewal, when hope has not yet returned but life continues to ask something of us. In that in-between time, she suggests, a different kind of grace can emerge—not the grace of answers, but the grace of endurance, faithfulness, and care.

Sometimes, staying with the day in front of us is enough.

Read the full reflection at the link in the comments.

01/11/2026

01/10/2026

01/10/2026

We are deeply grateful for the sustained presence of religious leaders in Minneapolis and across the country, keeping our focus on the life that was taken and the danger that a policy of fear and violence at the highest levels of government presents for us all.

As the Rev. Ashley Horan affirmed about Renee Nicole Good in a recent story from RNS (linked below), "She could have been any of us."

01/10/2026

In the wake of the tragedy, UUs in the Twin Cities are caring for each other and their communities.