[BES Friends] This weekend and month at BES

[Stephen Meskin]

*DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME -- SET CLOCKS AHEAD TONIGHT-- SO YOU WON'T BE LATE*
For more information on these and future activities see the calendar on 
our web site <http://www.baltimoreethicalsociety.org/>

TONIGHT:  March 7, 7:00 pm: First Saturday Coffee House
              Featured Performer, poet Susurrus Din, aka Ryan Coffman
              Followed by the always lively open mic. Coffee, tea, and 
snacks are available. No charge, but donations are requested.

SUNDAY March 8: 9:30 am: Poetry Group  (Mindfulness Meditation, CANCELED 
this month, coming back in April)
                               12:30 pm: Board Meeting (Members only)
SUNDAY PLATFORM 10:30 am
March 8, "Embracing Contradictions" by Fritz Williams, Leader Emeritus 
The Baltimore Ethical Society
       Fritz writes, "I believe in cultivating opposite, but 
complementary views of life, and I believe in meeting life's challenges 
with opposing strategies. I believe in reckoning with life's ultimate 
meaninglessness even as we fall in love with the miracle of being alive. 
I believe in working passionately to make our lives count, but also in 
never losing sight of how insignificant they really are. I believe in 
caring deeply and in rising being beyond caring. It is by encompassing 
these opposites, by being totally involved and vulnerable, but 
simultaneously transcendent and detached, that our lives are graced by 
contentment and joy."
       Fritz Williams is Leader Emeritus of the Baltimore Ethical 
Society and is currently spending time thinking and writing. He performs 
weddings and commitment ceremonies and speaks at the Society on 
occasion. He has worked as a parish priest in the Episcopal church, and 
as a writer and producer at public TV stations in Harrisburg, PA, and 
Detroit, MI .

FUTURE SUNDAY PLATFORMS:

    * March 15, "My Religion in Three Sentences (Plus Commentary)" by
      Michael Franch, Ethical Culture Leader
    * March 22, "Growing Humanism in a Faith-Based Society" by Roy
      Speckhardt, Exec. Director, The American Humanist Association
    * March 29, "Go Green: How to Shrink Your Environmental Footprint"
      by Amy Mussen, Licensed Professional Engineer

OTHER ACTIVITIES THIS MONTH

    * Fri. March 13, 7:30 pm: Second Friday Ironweed Film Club
    * Sun. March 15, 9:00 am: Ethical Action Breakfast
    * Sun. March 29, 12:30 pm: Newcomers' Meeting

   
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