a rather cheeky reference by l. mann and h. glover (originally recorded by the swallows -1951 - also recorded by freddie king, southside johnny, and maria muldaur among others) that, in a blue way, tells us that it's quality not quantity that makes the difference ...


and so it was last night at the fuuc in nashville as juan melendez shared his story with 11 people in the beautiful sanctuary inside the church ... it was clear that the intimate setting made the impact of the story deeper than it may be tonight in the larger venue at vanderbilt university's sarratt cinema ...

the unitarian faith is deeply embedded in social justice action and deepening the involvement of this particular community would greatly help the development of an indigenous nashville chapter of tcask that is autonomous from but in union with the state office also located in nashville ... this is a community of actors as well as thinkers...

i met the chair of their social action committee, got hooked up with a member who used to be active on the issue and wants to reconnect, and, saw again someone who is passionate about the issue but for complicated reasons has not been able to work with tcask for many years ...

"the motion" in this instance may be to find a way to re-involve this person, that is, to facilitate a healing that will touch the faith community in such a way that they will take a more leadership based role with tcask here in nashville...

all obstacles are actually opportunities (paraphrasing a john lennon song ... among others) ... let's see how this one gets navigated because as the lil' jesuit dude might say, we gotta "git 'er done..."