I shared this at my Unitarian Universalist Fellowship November 8, 2015. It created a robust conversation about shared responsibility, compassion and community. Opening Words: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “By our silence, by our willingness to compromise principle… by our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, […]
Beneath the blanket of anger.
She looked twenty years older than her true age. Was it because she had a difficult life? Because she was a mother of three young children? That’s what I thought when I first met her. I knocked on the screen door, with the rusty handle, and the woman who answered, “Marie”, pushed open the door […]
Silence seems to be the easiest word
My worldview changed on August 7, 2015, the day that Lara Sobel, a VT social worker was murdered. I have been a social worker since I was 21. My family might tell you I have been a social worker my entire life. I am driven to help others, to be a good listener, to help […]
Sarah Ward 