Sherry Chandler

I’m late in posting this — I’m sorry to say that I haven’t been reading the poetry blogs lately. I think I’ve lost my moral compass.

Hurricane Poets Check-In

This site is maintained by Robin Kemp. She has also posted the text of Dana Gioia’s letter on artists’ aid.

Number two son directed me to this column by Jon Carroll in the San Francisco Chronicle. Jon has been receiving communications from the Unitarian Jihad:

Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God, with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the possibility of there being no God at all, and his objection was noted with love by the secretary.

Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States! Too long has your attention been waylaid by the bright baubles of extremist thought. Too long have fundamentalist yahoos of all religions (except Buddhism — 14-5 vote, no abstentions, fundamentalism subcommittee) made your head hurt. Too long have you been buffeted by angry people who think that God talks to them. You have a right to your moderation! You have the power to be calm! We will use the IED of truth to explode the SUV of dogmatic expression!

I have been converted. See below:

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Neutron Bomb of Sweet Reason.

Get yours.

My sons are Brother Katana of Patience and The Jackhammer of Loving Kindness.

There is also a The First Reformed Unitarian Jihad, a Live Journal community, and a Wikipedia entry. The movement is growing! Soon we’ll be as big as Pastaferianism.

By coincidence, I am going to read/speak at the 9 a.m. service of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington on Sunday. I’ll keep my eye out for people acting like grown-ups.