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This tip: 

• applies only to people who use gMail to read their email. 

• applies only to people who sometimes find emails from exeteruu.org email addresses in their spam folder.

Some people have reported that emails from minister@exeteruu.org, or office@exeteruu.org or other FUUSE email addresses get put into their spam folders. Gmail allows users to manage incoming mail through filters. Here are some steps to be sure FUUSE emails stay in your inbox -- or another folder you may prefer.

In gMail on your computer, go to your settings. Look for the gear icon to get to settings. 

If you are shown something called “Quick settings” -- click instead on “See all settings.”

Click on the words "Filters and Blocked Addresses” to open a list of rules or “filters” for managing your emails.

Below the list of filters (if you have any), find a link that says “Create a new filter” and click it.

In the dialog box that appears, in the field at the top that is labeled “From:” type the at sign (@) and the domain name exeteruu.org as one “word,”  @exeteruu.org

Also make a mental note of all the other things you could fill in to create other kinds of filters. This dialog is asking you what emails to watch for. Click on “Create filter”-- not on “Search.” 

In the next dialog box that appears, you are being asked what to do with the emails that match your criteria.  Check the box next to “Never send it to spam.” Again, look around and make a mental note of the many other kinds of things you can do to an email through a filter like this. Press the “Create filter” button.

That’s it! Now think of all the other ways you can organize your inbox and other folders, and have fun.

Joan R. Darlington was born Joan Gilmer Raysor on October 11, 1928 in Pulman Washington and grew up in Lincoln Nebraska.  After University of Nebraska, Joan graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago and then moved to New York City. There she illustrated several books and did other commercial art work.  Then she began teaching arts and crafts at Camp Treetops in the Adirondacks Mountains, followed by teaching art at North Country School, a private school connected to Camp Treetops.

In the 1960s Joan married Sidney Darlington and had two daughters.   The family moved to Durham NH, but spent summers in Randolph NH and hiking with the Randolph Mountain Club.  

Through out her life, Joan loved to sketch and paint.  She developed a distinctive style of water colour painting and could often be seen on hikes and around Randolph with her portable seat and painting equipment.  In a very short time she could capture a mountain vista or forest landscape. She always carried a miniature water colour pad and made paintings and sketches when travelling. She said that painting helped her “see” a scene more clearly.  She was also a weaver, furnishing the family home with many beautiful woven rugs, cushions and mats. Her weaving and sewing brought together her artistic and creative nature and her environmentalist belief in making things by hand from natural fibres whenever possible.

Celebration of Life

Joan Raysor Darlington

1928 – 2019

The Randolph Church

Saturday August 10

10:00 am

Hymn: In Sweet Fields of Autumn 

The tune is Cradle Song, Pg. 93

In sweet fields of autumn the gold grain is falling,

the white clouds drift lonely, the wild swan is calling.

Alas for the daisies, the tall fern and grasses,

when wind-sweep and rainfall fill lowlands and passes.

The snows of December shall fill windy hollow;

the bleak rain trails after, the March wind shall follow.

The deer through the valleys leave print of their going;

and diamonds of sleet mark the ridges of snowing.

The stillness of death shall stoop over the water,

the plover sweep low where the pale streamlets falter;

but deep in the earth clod the black seed is living;

when spring sounds her bugles for rousing and giving.

Welcome, Reverend Mary Edes

Prelude: "Pastorale," I and II by Johann Sebastian Bach, 

Dr. Susan Ferré 

Reading, by Max A. Coots

Opening Remarks

Hymn, 34 For the Beauty of the Earth

Personal Reflections from Family

-David Wilkins

-Clover Koopman

-Barbara Turnbull 

Interlude: "Pastorale," III by Johann Sebastian Bach

Litany of Remembrance,  by Roland B. Gittelsohn

Hymn, In Sweet Fields of Autumn

Closing Remarks

Hymn, 13 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Everyone is invited to join us for a reception at Hwerwyl, at the top of Randolph Hill Road, following the service.

August 26, 2019

Shine, Kendra Ford

Violence is what happens when we don’t know what to do with our suffering.  Parker Palmer

The train glides down the coastline -- 

the grasses in the mudflat shine in the August sun,

the egrets shine in the grass,

the water shines, lapping at its high tide line.

The world is so beautiful

it is hard to really believe 

that my own species keeps killing each other,

small nuggets of metal and explosive

propelled from a vicious tube of metal.

Because we keep catching this horrible disease

of thinking that some part of us is bad or just not part of us.

There are these fragments of dark video

you can just make out the shooter,

see the gun before he starts shooting.

And then stories of the people who can still think when they hear gunfire,

they helped others escape

and set up blockades, some who grabbed the shooter.

Can you imagine grabbing the shooter, the gun hot from the repeated firings?

The surprising part might be the human weight of the person doing this,

his breath, coming hard as you struggle.

We say it’s evil but that keeps it so far away.

This is a human thing,

this terrible loneliness that turns into rage,

this madness that we could heal ourselves by harming each other.

Some people figure out what to do with the suffering,

Gandhi and MLK, didn’t the light come out of them?

And my first grade teacher, too, voice husky with cigarettes

Who got us all lit up for whales and life

The man who cleaned the church in San Francisco, 

always asking how I was, even though he had lost half his family,

the little girl, her father in prison, who clapped when I bought her lunch,

who asked a hundred questions, so curious and delighted.   

It’s the shine that’s everything.

You might call it God

Which would be fine

But I’ve never a word

That could contain the shine,

That didn’t box it in, turn it into something

To put in your pocket to keep your hands warm, feel safe.

Between the shootings, we try to figure out what to do. 

More and more I think we have lie down in the streets,

Lie down in the malls and schools and the Walmarts and the garlic festivals

Lie down along the border, and refuse to move until this madness ends.

Lie down with our arms around the people we suspect might not be good enough,

However that has wormed into your own mind.  

There is no shame, it’s a virus loose in the world, of course you got it.

We all did.  

Lie down together and refuse to get up, maybe that’s the inoculation.

The train goes into the woods, the world gets darker

But the leaves in the summer afternoon, there is no other word for it, shine.

Dear FUUSE Friends and Members,

The Board, after serious consideration, has voted to continue the job share of the Director of Religious Education (DRE) position for the upcoming church year. This decision has been made with the support of the Personnel Committee, the Minister and the Religious Education (RE) Committee.

A good deal of legwork, discussion and planning by Linsey-Jean Francoeur and Emily Samuel and the entire RE committee preceded the discussion and vote in our meeting. The RE committee chair and a member of the committee have met with the board, and outlined the specifics of what a shared DRE position will entail moving forward.

It is important to note that the sharing of the DRE position is a revenue neutral decision. As hours allocated to the DRE position are not being increased the budget is not impacted. 

The job share idea originally grew out of the existing DRE’s need to reduce her hours. The decision was made to ask Emily Samuel to share the position of DRE due to her strong background in religious education with her previous UU Church and her committed support of the RE committee.  Also, Emily has RE experience specifically with older age groups; the Board and RE Committee see this experience as an asset which will strengthen this area of our RE program.

The RE Committee has a specific plan in place which delineates how tasks and responsibilities will be shared between the two DREs. The skill sets of the two DREs compliment each other in a way that all feel will be of great benefit to our RE program at FUUSE. Please watch for an upcoming communication from Alex Allen, the RE committee chair, outlining that plan in detail.

As always, if you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact a Board member or a member of the RE Committee.

Board Members
Cliff Sinnott cliffsinnott@gmail.com
Jan Stephens janetstephens30@gmail.com
Karen Patnaude kpatnaude11@comcast.net
Holley Daschbach peacecat123@yahoo.com
Jim Webber sagesinbloom@gmail.com
Dan Garvey dcgarvey@gmail.com
Dawn Huebner dawnahuebner@gmail.com
Bert Lamb alamb@pobox.com 

RE Committee
Alexandra Allen, RE Committee Chair amallen@cityyear.org
Sarah DeWitt sarah.m.dewitt@gmail.com
Michele Mainz michelemainz@gmail.com
Jessica Michelsen michelsens@comcast.net
Ann Palma annpalma@ymail.com
Anne Tufts  annieot@hotmail.com