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April 26th, 2022 . past Rod Solano-Quesnel
Opening Hymn #16 'Tis a Gift to Be Unproblematic
Words: Joseph Bracket, 18th cent.
Music: American Shaker melody
(Tune Simple GIFTS)
Tune Unproblematic Gifts interpreted past Rod Smith
’Tis a souvenir to be uncomplicated, ’tis a gift to exist free,
’tis a gift to come down where we ought to be,
and when we notice ourselves in the identify just right,
’twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
to bow and to bend we shan’t be aback.
To plow, plough will be our delight,
’till by turning, turning we come up ’round right.
Reflection for All Ages – Thank U Frontlines – Chris Mann inspired by Alanis Morissette
Meditation on Joys & Sorrows
In this unusual time, it is easy to observe ourselves wrapped upward into the larger story of the Pandemic, and with practiced reason. Covid-19 has infected over a one thousand thousand people, killed hundreds of thousands, and affected the lives, livelihoods, homes of billions.
We too remember that we may give space to all other stories that bring upward Sorrow and Joy in our lives. Some of these other stories may be related to the pandemic, while others might not be directly connected to it.
This week nosotros go along the people of Nova Scotia in mind, as people across Canada struggle to make sense of the deadliest shooting in Canadian history. We also recall that, similarly to the École Polytechnique massacre, gender-based violence seems to be a gene.
Flags have been flown at half-mast this week, and they volition be once more on Tuesday, in recognition of Workers’ Memorial Mean solar day, which commemorates workers who take been killed on the job. While worker safety has always been of import, given the events of the terminal calendar week, and of the last couple of months, we are given a stronger call to think every worker who faces gamble in performing their duties.
Meditation Hymn #352 Detect a Stillness
~)-| Words: Carl G. Seaburg, 1922-1998, based on a Unitarian Transylvanian text,
© 1992 Unitarian Universalist Clan
Music: Transylvanian hymn melody,
~)-| harmony by Larry Phillips, 1948- , © 1992 Unitarian Universalist Association
(Melody SIGISMUND)
Interpreted by the First Unitarian Church of Chicago
1 Find a stillness, hold a stillness, allow the stillness carry me.
Observe the silence, concur the silence, let the silence carry me.
In the spirit, by the spirit, with the spirit giving power,
I will find true harmony.
2 Seek the essence, hold the essence, let the essence carry me.
Let me flower, assistance me bloom, watch me flower, behave me.
In the spirit, by the spirit, with the spirit giving ability,
I will find true harmony.
Offering
Our church, within and beyond the walls of our building, continues to share its ministry thanks to your ongoing generosity, co-ordinate to your means, in this unusual time.
Our treasurer, Helen Moore, has offered to receive your donations by mail, sent either to the Church address, or to her dwelling house. Details are in our Newsletter.
Beware of e-mails that ask you for coin online. Neither the government minister nor the treasurer, nor anyone from the church will ask you to transport money to an business relationship past e-mail. And we volition never ask you to send united states your credit card number or your e-mail credentials (like username or countersign).
Any “urgent†appeal to you lot for money on behalf of the church should be seen as suspicious.
Reading â€" “Circle of Friends†in Sum by David Eagleman
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist who also writes speculative fiction. In his volume Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, he explores twoscore hypothetical scenarios, equally thought experiments fix in speculative afterlives. These oftentimes expose deeper truths most our current lives.
This link has an excerpt with his get-go four stories – our Reading "Circle of Friends" is the third story on this page.
Video Reading – You Clap for Me Now – The Guardian (2:11 minutes)
This is an homage to essential workers that are besides immigrants in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.
Sermon â€" Essential â€" Rev. Rod
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In this prime time for home streaming of movies, shows, and music, information technology has been interesting to come across the how popular culture has adapted to the realities of the pandemic. In early on March, it simply took a few days for vocalizer Lady Gaga’s latest music video Stupid Dearest, to exist parodied into the vocal Stupid Cough, virtually coping with the latest aspects of our lives. I’ll add that both of these videos were remarkably fun to watch.
The American vocalist, Chris Mann, made an entire cottage industry out of parodying pop music songs and adapting them to reflect our emerging culture in the wake of this year’south pandemic.
Many of these parodies are intended to bring a measure out of humour during this hard time. One of his parodies, withal, is more of an homage… a reinterpretation of Canadian singer Alanis Morissette’s classic Thank U. Alanis Morissette’s original song is an act of thanksgiving to the many people and places that have made her life what it is. Chris Mann'sÂThank U Frontline kept the thanksgiving theme and adapted the song for this time, seeking to recognize equally many workers as he could call back of.
The question of who is an essential worker is a tricky ane. When the government of Ontario first came upwards with a list of essential workers who were allowed to work outside the habitation, the list went on for 74 items… and many of those items included several sub-categories. A lot of people were considered essential.
This wasn’t without some controversy. It was noted that some types of piece of work catered only to some very special interests, rather than fundamental infrastructure for our society to function.
At the same time, one might note that several roles were not in that listing. This is partly because some of these are not remunerated, such as stay-at-abode parents, but at a deeper level, information technology is as well because the question of what is essential, hinges on who information technology is essential to.
The Ontario essential workers list has since been revised. Some kinds of work, such equally construction on certain projects has been deemed less urgent, when balanced confronting the priority of reducing the spread of affliction. But the question lingers about what it is that we need for us to go nigh our lives, to alive, to survive, to thrive. Each of these is a slightly different question. Each is important.
When Chris Isle of man parodied Alanis Morissette, he went over a big span of occupations â€" and roles. From the very evident healthcare workers, to the store clerks, truck drivers, sanitation workers, teachers, stay-at-home parents. Some of these have historically been less glamourized, and yet we are more deeply aware of how vital these all are for communities.
When Chris Mann names affectionate all that nosotros have for granted, he specifies what that is â€" everything.
Really, all workers that make our life what information technology is, are often â€" in some way â€" unrecognized at different points in our lives… people who do things that we don’t know how to do, or we don’t desire to do, or didn’t even know needed to be done.
In his short story “Circle of Friendsâ€, speculative writer David Eagleman observes that the people we know, who already offer so much in our lives, are all the same a tiny fraction of the folks who make our life what we know it to be.
My friends, over the past couple months, you will take heard a word come increasingly often and increasingly broadly â€" heroes. It is existence applied to an exponentially growing category of people â€" and rightly so. At that place are millions of people who are risking their lives every day. Some went into their work knowing the risks; some knew information technology was risky, but it is know even riskier; some never thought information technology would involve potentially lethal take chances; and some only need to get the work washed, no affair what, because they take a duty – duty to themselves, duty to their family, or duty their communities.
I’m non worried about over-using the word heroes. I know that, if annihilation, I’k underusing it, overlooking people whom I don’t know, and might never be aware of how they are part of my life.
As the National Worker’south Twenty-four hour period of Mourning draws well-nigh this Tuesday, Apr 28, I am reminded that the people who are making a living, in my local community and my global community, are always giving of themselves, sometimes at not bad, clear and present adventure, and other times with unexpected dangers, or at the expense of other parts of their lives.
With some of the things we’re doing without these days, we are also getting a grasp for another dimension to this question of what is essential in our lives â€" some other one of the revelations of this special time.
As we run across our spending habits shift, we are also getting clarity on those things that we really really need, equally opposed to those that we idea we wanted… merely upon consideration, probably don’t make the impact in our lives that we have fabricated them out to exercise.
Travel for commuting has decreased noticeably over the past several weeks, and with that, air pollution. Some of it has been out of necessity, and will return over the side by side year. Some, it is now articulate, may simply be unnecessary, and many things could exist washed differently to carry out our daily business, with a smaller impact on our environment.
The David Eagleman’s story “Circle of Friendsâ€, which I offered equally a reading, is a thought experiment in sensation virtually the people who we don’t ofttimes think of, and what would happen if we suddenly found ourselves in a reality where the only people in our lives were the people we really remember, leading usa to eventually miss the vital contributions of people we accept never met.
This year, we are taking part in a somewhat like, existent-life experiment. Professor Paul Monks, from the University of Leicester declares that “We are now, inadvertently, conducting the largest scale experiment ever seen†in relation to observing our suddenly-reduced impact on the environs. This experiment, I might add, besides includes considering those things we tin do with less, as well equally the people who we cannot practice without.
At that place are services that are not on the Ontario government’s list, which we are still missing. Things like grooming services that cater to our sense of nobility, and which are nonetheless non considered a matter of life and decease. Even medical supports that are of import to our ain sense of well-being are sometimes taking the backseat to the more pressing question of the pandemic. And notwithstanding, these have an essential quality, that is sometimes difficult to express.
My friends, in that location are intangible things that we are becoming more aware of â€" our sense of freedom, our tactile sense of community, our sense of security in livelihood, or even in our expectations of daily routine. These are things that are both secondary to public wellness, and yet essential to our long-term sense of cocky and community.
What does this mean? I am not going to give you lot a final pronouncement on what is categorically essential and what is not. If nosotros were to describe up a listing, we will likely disagree on some specific items.
My friends, the deeper revelation, is on the clearer truth that is beingness exposed to us â€" that many of the things that we’ve brought ourselves to rely on, may not be nearly every bit essential as we’ve made ourselves to think, while others we rarely think of are far more than essential than nosotros may have imagined, and that nosotros are much more essential to each other than we might realize.
For all of you, and all the people in our lives, we are thankful.
So may it exist.
Amen
Copyright © 2022 Rodrigo Emilio Solano Quesnel
Endmost Hymn â€" #67 We Sing At present Together
~)-| Words: Edwin T. Buehrer, 1894-1969, alt © Unitarian Universalist Clan
Music: Adrian Valerius’due south Netherlandtsch Gedenckclanck, 1626,
arr. by Edward Kremser, 1838-1914
(Tune KREMSER)
Interpretation of Kremser Tune past organpipe8
i Nosotros sing now together our song of thanksgiving,
rejoicing in goods which the ages have wrought,
for life that enfolds us, and helps and heals and holds united states,
and leads beyond the goals which our forebears once sought.
2 Nosotros sing of the freedoms which martyrs and heroes
have won by their labor, their sorrow, their pain;
the oppressed befriending, our ampler hopes defending,
their death becomes a triumph, they died non in vain.
3 We sing of the prophets, the teachers, the dreamers,
designers, creators, and workers, and seers;
our own lives expanding, our gratitude commanding,
their deeds have fabricated immortal their days and their years.
iv We sing of customs now in the making
in every far continent, region, and land;
with those of all races, all times and names and places,
nosotros pledge ourselves in covenant firmly to stand.
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April 23rd, 2022 . by William Baylis
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The Overview Result (Earth Day) – Bill Baylis
April 19th, 2022 . past Rod Solano-Quesnel
Opening Hymn – #21 For the Beauty of the Earth
Words: Folliott Sandford Pierpont, 1835-1917, adjust.
Music: Conrad Kocher, 1786-1872, abridged
(Tune DIX)
Interpreted by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
(Adapted lyrics below)
ane For the dazzler of the earth,
for the splendor of the skies,
for the dear which from our nascency
over and effectually us lies:
(Chorus)
Source of all, to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
two For the joy of ear and heart,
for the center and mind’southward delight,
for the mystic harmony
linking sense to sound and sight:
(Chorus)
iii For the wonder of each 60 minutes
of the day and of the night,
loma and vale and tree and flower,
sun and moon and stars of low-cal:
(Chorus)
iv For the joy of human care,
sister, brother, parent, kid,
for the kinship we all share,
for all gentle thoughts and mild:
(Chorus)
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Meditation on Joys & Sorrows
At that place are many joys and concerns of a global nature, not simply concerns about the furnishings of the pandemic COVID-xix, just events that may or may non be directly related to it.
Afterwards Hurricane Harold threatened the lives, livelihoods, and homes of people in the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Tonga, this week, nosotros are too mindful of the people in the Us, where a tornado outbreak over Easter weekend also threatened the lives, livelihoods, and homes of people already dealing with the furnishings of the pandemic.
Closer to dwelling, we keep the people of Nova Scotia on our minds, where a man carried out several shootings, killing and injuring several people this weekend.
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We also recognize some infinite to recognize two 50th anniversaries:
1) 50 years since the successful rescue of the Apollo 13 crew after an explosion in 1970 damaged the command module and threatened the lives of the astronauts on board, and
2) on April 22, we celebrate the 50th World Day, non only giving our thanks for the beauty of Earth, but too reminding us of the piece of work nosotros still take equally caretakers of this planet to preserve its role in hosting the interdependent web of all existence and supporting an amazing biodiversity of life on Earth, at present and into the future. We humans really do hold the earth in our hands…
Nosotros too celebrate the rubber return to Earth of ii astronauts, Drew Morgan and Jessica Meir, and a Soyuz commander Oleg Skripochka from the International Space Station on Friday morning.
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Meditation Hymn – #123 Spirit of Life
W & M: Carolyn McDade, 1935 © 1981 Carolyn McDade
~)-| harmony by Grace Lewis-McLaren, 1939- , © 1992 Unitarian Universalist Association
(Tune SPIRIT OF LIFE)
Interpreted by Ogrange Canton Unitarian Universalist Choir
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Our church, within and beyond the walls of our building, continues to share its ministry thanks to your ongoing generosity, co-ordinate to your means, in this unusual time.
Our treasurer, Helen Moore, has offered to receive your donations past mail, sent either to the Church address, or to her abode. Details are in our Newsletter.
Beware of e-mails that ask you for money online. Neither the minister nor the treasurer, nor anyone from the church will inquire you to send money to an account by east-post. And nosotros volition never ask you to send us your credit card number or your e-mail credentials (like username or password).
Any "urgent" appeal to you for money on behalf of the church should be seen every bit suspicious.
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Reflection – The Overview Effect – Bill Baylis
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2 days ago, ii astronauts and a cosmonaut from the International Infinite Station (ISS) returned to Earth afterwards months in space. The world is now a different place than what they left, and they must enter two or 3 weeks in isolation in gild to protect themselves and their immune-compromised bodies (a result of spending months in space) from the virus and other germs. Just while they were on board the ISS, they experienced a new perspective of the Globe they had briefly left. The new perspective affects many astronauts deeply. It is called the “Overview Effect†and forms the topic of my talk today.
The term originated in a book past Frank White: The Overview Effect â€" Space Exploration and Human being Development (Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), (AIAA, 1998). It describes a profound cognitive shift in perspective experienced by many astronauts later on seeing Earth from space. Astronaut Ronald Garan said “The feel is incredible, yous have all this motion and colours and light that really gives you lot the sense that nosotros live on a, a living, animate organism and the experience is undeniable however surreal, it remains very much office of who I am today,†and Joseph Allen added “I’ve known every cosmonaut and every astronaut…without exception, every ane of them cannot get over the dazzler of seeing planet Globe. Information technology just takes your breath abroad and [pause] y'all just cannot have your optics off the Earth. It but is so cute.â€
Astronaut Don L. Lind said “Intellectually, I knew what to expect. I have probably looked at as many pictures from infinite equally anybody…and so I knew exactly what I was going to see…But there is no style y'all tin can be emotionally prepared for the emotional impact…Information technology brought tears to my eyes.†And Astronaut Edward Gibson made the key observation “You see how diminutive your life and concerns are compared to other things in the universe…The event is that you relish the life that is before you…it allows you to have an inner peace.â€
It takes the ISS, moving at 27,600 km/hr, only over 90 minutes to complete an orbit of xl,000 km around Earth, and passengers tin can come across about 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24-hour interval. Videos made from the ISS show lightning storms and aurora every bit the ISS passes overhead. There are a number of video recordings of this impressive sight.
Here’southward a 30-2nd time-lapse video from the European Space Agency (ESA):
https://world wide web.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2017/09/A_time-lapse_view_of_Earth_from_the_Space_Station_from_Africa_to_Russia
The overview effect provides an important perspective that all humanity should feel. The world would be a amend identify if contentious politics and its many fiddling squabbles were replaced past this unifying image of Earth in vast space. Merely how can we accomplish this? Most of us will never have the opportunity to visit the ISS and fifty-fifty our politicians volition never gain that valuable perspective (every bit much as nosotros might similar to shoot some of them into space!). In order to reach children of a larger portion of the population, the ESA began what they called SpaceBuzz projection in December 2018. It uses virtual reality in a rocket-ship shaped bus to simulate views like those experienced by astronauts when visiting the ISS or traveling to the moon. For details see https://www.space.com/spacebuzz-virtual-reality-spaceflight-overview-effect.html .
We’re looking at a dissimilar approach, using a human-scale showroom in an effort to elevate our thoughts from earthly squabbles to a more heavenly overview. Specifically we want to offer a scale-model solar system, where visitors can wander–often at the speed of light (at the calibration of the model) or even fasterâ€"from planet to planet, see how large our solar arrangement is compared to its planets and moons, and recognize how much larger still is the visible universe that we at present know holds hundreds of billions of exoplanets, some of which may well hold “alien†life.
In the residue of my reflection, I desire now briefly to describe some of the problems inherent in constructing such a scale model, how those bug accept been addressed in some successful scale models around the world, and what a calibration model on the riverfront in Windsor might look similar. Basically we want an attractive static scale model of the solar system along the riverfront in Windsor, Ontario. The model planets would be displayed on a path along the Detroit river, stretching from a model of the Dominicus near Ouellette Avenue to Neptune shut to the Ambassador Span (and a kilometer across if we include the Kuiper belt). The relative sizes of the planets and their mean distances from the Sun would all be displayed on the aforementioned scale of roughly 1:i.v billion relative to our bodily solar organization.
Globe in this model would be a marble-sized sphere about viii.5 mm in bore at a distance of 100 m from the Dominicus, modeling the truthful Earth 1.5 billion times larger and thus about 8.5 x 1.5 million thou = 12.8 1000 km in bore and at a distance of 150 billion m and thus 150 meg km from the Sunday. See table beneath for more model sizes. By experiencing an accurate scale model of the Sunday, the Globe, and other planets in our solar organisation, visitors can gain a perspective of the place of Earth in our cosmic neighbourhood and its size relative to that of the Lord's day and other planets. They will also be able to read almost the planets, their associated moons, and their orbits most the Sun on plaques at the planet positions, as well equally visualize, and listen to information about them on their smart phones, tablets, or portable computers as they walk or ride along the river front end. The solar system model volition help visitors appreciate the vastness of the solar system relative to the size of Earth and experience some of the profound “overview effect†reported by several astronauts when viewing the Earth from satellite orbit or from the moon or the International Space Station.
Such models have been created and displayed in a number of locations around the world, simply they are non common because of the difficulty of accurately combining the small sizes of the planets, especially Earth and the other terrestrial planets, relative to their distances autonomously and from the Sun. If the model Earth is to be larger than a mm in diameter, roughly the size of a BB pellet, the planetary model of the solar system must stretch over distances of a kilometer or more. Our waterfront along the Detroit river presents the opportunity of displaying a scale model with a reasonable compromise of sizes and distances.
In the sketch below, the orbits of the planets are modeled equally circles around the Sunday, and the model orbit of the most distant planet, Neptune, shown in bluish, extends almost the Ambassador Span, merely over 3 km away. The Kuiper chugalug is about four km from the Sun in our model and is shown on the map as a magenta circumvolve.
See following tabular array for a primal to the sketch with model sizes and distances. The Oort cloud in the model is nearly g km from the Sunday and is non shown in the model. The sketch and its calculations were fabricated with the help of programs provided past the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the observatory of the University of Manitoba. The scale and positions of the Sun and planets can be adjusted every bit needed for permits and convenience as long as the relative sizes and distances are maintained.
The Solar Organisation model is meant to be an attractive feature of the Windsor waterfront that encourages visitors to walk, jog, or bicycle along the more than 3 kilometers of the park while learning near the germination and properties of our nearest planetary neighbours. Equally yous take seen, a number of astronauts who accept viewed the Globe from the Moon or from the International Space Station have commented on the profound experience of viewing the Earth as a bright blue marble in the vast black backdrop of space. It’s a perspective that subjugates petty Earthly problems and squabbles to college existential goals of preserving life and its habitat on the Globe for millennia of future generations. Few of u.s.a. will always be able to share this potentially life-irresolute perspective of viewing Globe from space, just it could serve united states of america well if more of us appreciated the place of Earth in our Solar System equally our neighbourhood of the cosmos. The model solar organisation should besides be an allure for visitors to Windsor, encouraging them to savour our beautiful waterfront while learning almost the Earth, its surroundings, and other parts of our solar system.
Central to the sizes of the planets and their orbits, here approximated as circular, for the proposed scale model of the solar system in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. On this scale of1:1.five Billion, information technology is reasonable to include the Earth’south moon in the model (diameter 2.2 mm at a distance 25 cm from Earth).
The scale of 1:10 billion is a popular option in the U.s.a.A., used at sites known as a Voyage Communities (see http://voyagesolarsystem.org/). In the Voyage model, Globe has a diameter of merely 1.2 mm and is fifteen m from the Sun, whereas Neptune is 4.v mm in diameter and lies 500 grand from the Sun. Such models have been set up in Boulder, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Houston, TX; and other locations. Because the model planets at this scale, they must be mounted on pyramids or cones so that they can exist easily seen. Voyage models has the advantage of beingness contained within a half kilometer of the model sum, simply planet sizes are unfortunately also quite small.
The planetary path model at the 1:1 billion scale (e.g. Hagan, Germany and Eugene, Oregon) is ten times larger than the Voyage Model. The one in Hagen, Deutschland, dates back to a publication in November 1959 and claims to be the world’s oldest solar system model at this scale. The planets are represented in the model past one or more bronze plates, and their orbits encircle the belfry. Globe is modelled equally a one.27 cm-diameter ball, 150 chiliad from the 1.39 m-diameter model Sun in the Rathaus.
In the planetary path model, the speed of low-cal is reduced from the bodily 3×108 one thousand/s = 30 cm/ns to thirty cm/s (from well-nigh a foot/ns to a foot/s), which is roughly the speed of a leisurely step-past-step stroll. The model has to extend at to the lowest degree 4.five km to stand for the distance of Neptune from the Sunday, and further if trans-Neptunian objects are to be faithfully modeled, and the round-trip distance to Neptune in the model may be longer than many coincidental visitors (at least in America) might want to undertake.
There are several other planetary-path solar system models at the scale of the one in Hagen, only the one in Prague (see http://www.hvezdolet.cz/planetarnistezka.htm ), on a bicycle path along 13 km of the Vltava River valley at that place, from the model Sun in Prague to the dwarf planet Sedna, may be the most complete. It claims to model all dwarf planets as well as the larger moons of the solar organization. It held its chiliad opening on May 13, 2018.
The world’s largest permanent calibration model is in Sweden in a scale of 1:20M. The Ericsson World in Stockholm, Sweden, actually represents the Sun together with its corona. It has a diameter of 110 m. (The photosphere of the Sun without the corona has a model diameter of 71 m.). Earth on this scale is 65 cm in diameter and lies a altitude of seven.six km from the world. The Pluto-Charon pair is 300 km away. Other dwarf planets (and dwarf-planet candidates) Ixion, Eris, and Sedna, are likewise included. The termination shock, where the solar current of air has slowed to the speed of sound, is located in the model 950 km from the globe and above the Chill Circumvolve. Some of the model objects are housed in museums, schools, and science centres, and some include art work. This is not a model that you would want to generally visit but on human foot!
In that location are several more models beyond the world that tin can offer inspiration and ideas for the best option of a model for Windsor, Ontario. Returning to the scaled model proposed, its scale of 1:one.five Billion accommodates both planets with diameters in the cm range and distances of a still walkable few km from the Sunday.
The speed of light is xx cm/s (eight inches/s) on our proposed scale, compared to three cm/s in the Voyage model and 30 cm/s in the planetary-path model). It uses the same scale as the model built in La Malbaie, Quebec, where model Jupiter is 10 cm in diameter.
At the moment, the installation of such a model solar system in Windsor is still a dream and there is much work to do, including on its design. I invite ideas of how all-time to make such a model an attractive, interesting addition to the Windsor Riverfront (such as adding artistic components) fostering the overview consequence for visitors.
Thank you for your attention and let’due south welcome Earth Mean solar day now armed with an enhanced overview.
Some references
Frank White, The Overview Effect â€" Infinite Exploration and Human Evolution (Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), (AIAA, 1998).
Build a Solar System has a built-in reckoner for sizes and positions of the planets. https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/
Voyage Community: www.voyagesolarsystem.org/
The Colorado Scale-Model Solar Organization at the 1:10 billion calibration used by Voyage exhibits, a pop scale that fits Dominicus to Pluto within 500 m. Plate supports are pyramids, with a transparent peak holding each planet:
https://www.jeffreybennett.com/model-solar-systems/colorado-scale-model-solar-organization/
Plot model planetary orbits on your site:
https://umanitoba.ca/observatory/outreach/solarsystem/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model wikipedia compares 70 scale models of the solar system around the world. By and large scale models of i:10 billion or more are no more than than roughly a half km in radius and easily walkable whereas those of 1:1 billion or less are large enough (~5 km radius) to require a bike or other transportation.
https://www.astroblemecharlevoix.org/balade?lang=en The one:1.5 billion scale solar organisation model in La Malbaie, Quebec (~xl km Northward of Quebec City almost oral cavity of the St. Lawrence river, population viii,300; formerly Murray Bay)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
The Overview Institute: https://overviewinstitute.org/
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Closing Hymn – #345 With Joy Nosotros Merits the Growing Light
~)-| Words: Samuel Longfellow, 1819-1892
Music: Musicalisches Handbuch, Hamburg, 1690, adapt.
(Melody WINCHESTER NEW)
Rendition of "Winchester New" tune by Andrew Remillard
(Lyrics to Hymn #345 below)
1 With joy we merits the growing light,
advancing idea, and widening view,
the larger freedom, clearer sight,
which from the quondam unfold the new.
two With wider view, come loftier goal;
with fuller light, more good to meet;
with freedom, truer self-control;
with cognition, deeper reverence exist.
A 1000 Unifying Story
April 12th, 2022 . by Rod Solano-Quesnel
Opening Hymn – #398 Gathered Here
Words & Music: Philip A. Porter, 1953- , © 1991 Philip A. Porter
(Tune GATHERING Chant)
Reflection for All Ages – Together – John Green (iii:51 minutes)
The brother of Hank Greenish, vlogbrother John reflects on the pregnant of interdependence.
Meditation on Joys & Sorrows
In this unusual time, it is easy to discover ourselves wrapped upwardly into the larger story of the Pandemic, and with practiced reason. Covid-nineteen has infected over a million people, killed tens of thousands, and afflicted the lives, livelihoods, homes of billions.
We also remember that nosotros may requite infinite to all other stories that bring up Sorrow and Joy in our lives. Some of these other stories may be related to the pandemic, while others might not exist straight continued to it.
Equally we think virtually our own stories of transition, of landmarks, of celebration and commemoration, I volition mention a couple of stories and landmarks from around the globe, since what touches ane affects us all.
We are mindful of the people of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, where Category v Hurricane Harold has killed at to the lowest degree 29 people, and has severely affected the lives, livelihoods, and homes of hundreds of thousands of others in these Pacific island nations.
Today, also marks the 40th anniversary of Terry Fox’southward Marathon of Hope. On April 12, 1980, Terry Play a joke on dipped his leg in the Atlantic Sea and ran halfway across Canada, never completing his run, but inspiring millions of others to carry on his legacy.
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Hymn #61 Lo, the Earth Awakes Again
~)-| W: Samuel Longfellow, 1819-1892, arr.
M: Lyra Davidica, 1708, version of John Arnold’s Compleat Psalmodist, 1749
(tune EASTER HYMN)
(Interpreted by Steph and Les Tacy)
i Lo, the earth awakes over again â€" Alleluia!
From the winter’s bail and pain. Alleluia!
Bring we leaf and flower and spray â€" Alleluia!
to beautify this happy day. Alleluia!
2 Once more the give-and-take comes truthful, Alleluia!
All the globe shall be made new. Alleluia!
Now the nighttime, cold days are o’er, Alleluia!
Spring and gladness are before. Alleluia!
3 Change, and then, mourning into praise, Alleluia!
And, for dirges, anthems raise. Alleluia!
How our spirits soar and sing, Alleluia!
How our hearts leap with the spring! Alleluia!
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Sermon â€" A Thou Unifying Story â€" Rev. Rod
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If you’ve looked at our Newsletter, you will have noticed that the original title for today’s sermon was We Have the Technology! And I had chosen that title because I expected (prophesied, if you will) that this would be the start Sunday since nosotros concluding met in person, when we’d be able to gather in a virtual space by making use of some newer technology.
And indeed, the prophecy has been fulfilled â€" nosotros take the technology to assist united states renew a deeper sense of connection, at a time when gathering face-to-face would be unwise, and that by beingness apart together, we are supporting â€" in solidarity â€" worldwide efforts to mitigate the effects of the ongoing pandemic.
Now, one of the hallmarks of this time, is a quickly-irresolute mural, then today I’d like to focus on something a bit bigger, the idea of a Grand Unifying Story. Because at this fourth dimension of the year, different folks of faith are invited to think aspects of their tradition that offering only that â€" a grand unifying story.
And this particular yr, we notice that we are now encountering a grand unifying story of our own. In many ways, it feels like a make-new story… we’ve been hearing the word “unprecedented†quite a chip. Merely in many ways, it’s merely like many of the m unifying stories of lore and yore…. some, from not even that long ago.
Folks in the Jewish tradition effectually the world accept lamented how this time to assemble as a family unit, to celebrate the holiday of Passover, has come at a time when large family gatherings could be especially dangerous.
Though many accept as well remarked that information technology may be somewhat fitting that the holiday commemorates a story of families staying at home, to protect themselves from a plague, eventually emerging safe into a new kind of life. This has been one of the great unifying stories in Judaism.
Also today, many think the Christian tradition with the resurrection story of Jesus of Nazareth â€" a humble carpenter â€" coming to life anew equally a near meaning spiritual leader, inspiring his followers into a new kind of life. This besides, is the master great unifying story of the Christian faith.
Now, I’1000 not going to spend time discussing the historicity of those stories, because their power comes from illustrating a deeper truth that faith can guide us from times of despair into expecting â€" and creating â€" a new reality where life has new significant.
Our current reality, where we have been called into service, often at nifty personal hardship or expense, represents what feels similar a new narrative to our lives, and what life might look similar in the future.
In our congregation today, only one member was alive at the time of the final great pandemic in 1918, and she had been barely born. And so yes, this is indeed quite new for nigh of us.
In that location have, of course, been other influenza-similar pandemics, though they haven’t impacted us in the same way. And for several decades, the AIDS pandemic has affected different parts of the earth, and different populations, with varying levels of severity. For some, the parallels are quite striking, while many others take felt mostly unaffected.
And I know that some of you were alive for other greatly-impactful moments in the history of the world. Many of you will recall the horrors of the Second Globe War â€" how it affected your immediate family life, and so shaped global life afterward… sometimes in horrifying ways, and in some means with a renewed sense of optimism for what people effectually the world can accomplish when they resolve to piece of work together, to create ways of coordinating with a larger vision of global community.
We remember stories of heroes, some are famous ones, who helped hundreds of people flee the Holocaust, as well as other individuals who helped in smaller, yet meaning ways, be it offering safety to others, every bit they could, or contributing to a commonage attempt, sharing in the scarcity to offer a measure of plenty.
Some of y'all might recall that the original design of our flaming chalice, comes from the Unitarian Service Committee’s operations in serving refugees from Europe during that time.
Some of the younger folks, like myself will recall how our earth seemed to change all of a sudden, on a Tuesday morning time in September of 2001… as the world realized that life would non be the same once more, even when it might feel â€" somewhat â€" normal. Nosotros have heard stories of heroism from around that time, along with stories of not bad grief.
During Joys & Sorrows, I mentioned that today marks the 40th anniversary for the beginning of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Promise, as he dipped his leg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 12, 1980. That was a Nifty Unifying Story for Canada, and it has continued to inspire folks effectually the earth.
Even with the heartbreak of his run catastrophe suddenly, barely halfway through, his story continues to inspire individuals â€" most of whom will never be equally famous as him, nor promise to be â€" to work together, contributing to what has become the single largest i-day annual fundraiser for cancer research, fifty-fifty when Terry Play tricks never got to dip his leg in the Pacific Sea. The story of the Marathon of Promise, is ane that reminds us that heroes come up in all sorts â€" famous and anonymous â€" with large contributions, and modest, only significant collaborations.
And now, today, we find ourselves participating and co-creating a new not bad unifying story. You lot, me, and more than seven billion others, are chosen to be part of a global effort to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. Making offerings, small and large. This may mean staying home to reduce the risk for those who can’t stay home. Or it may mean going to piece of work â€" be it to ensure that other people can go on nutrient on the table, or to attend to the health of others.
All of these offerings stand for sacrifice. Some of it may seem more glamorous than others â€" all of it is vital.
My friends, over the class of these weeks and months, we may remember the names of some of the heroes that are becoming today, some names we might forget, most names… we will never learn. All of them will have served the greater good. And nosotros are called to serve alongside them.
And, my friends, we’re as well called to uphold the prophetic imperative that comes from this shared, global experience. And that is an enduring telephone call to activity, to proclaim the emerging awareness that has been revealed in the course of this pandemic.
Just as the story of the humble carpenter reminds us that life-transforming inspiration may come from unexpected sources, nosotros are reminded how we depend on everyone’south contribution, especially those that are often unappreciated, or underappreciated.
My friends, we have as well come up into deeper sensation nearly the bear upon of poverty, virtually the necessity of quality and accessible health care, about the need for a robust culture of scientific responsibility and research, nearly the effect of humanity on the rest of the natural world.
These matters are not new â€" people take talking nigh these for some time now, simply in the shared feel of the pandemic â€" the great unifying story of this all of a sudden silent spring â€" their importance has become all the more striking.
My friends, the world is over again seeing more than clearly how what touches one affects united states of america all â€" and we’re seeing conspicuously that we can piece of work together. You have been testify of this.
My friends, we need not expect for the bend to dip down for us to ascension up. We are being renewed today, rising into a deeper awareness â€" and appreciation â€" of our global community and of the interdependence in the interconnected web of beingness, of which we are all part.
In Solidarity, and so may information technology be.
Amen
Copyright © 2022 Rodrigo Emilio Solano Quesnel
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Endmost Hymn – #395 Sing and Rejoice
Words & Music: Traditional circular
(Tune MOORE)
Another hymn with the same tune – #397 Forenoon Has Come (interpreted by Dany Rosevear)
i Sing and rejoice.
2 Sing and rejoice.
3 Permit all things living now
four sing and rejoice.
Wuthering – The Sudden Obliteration of Expectation
Apr 5th, 2022 . by Rod Solano-Quesnel
Opening Hymn #146 Soon the Day Will Make it (interpreted by the Chancel Choir of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland)
Words: Ehud Manor
Music: Nurit Hirsh
(melody Bashanah)
Meditation on Joys & Sorrows
In these days of dubiety, we make infinite to recognize all who are affected by COVID-xix, and we retrieve all who have died in the course of this pandemic.
We give thanks to all people who are giving more than of themselves at this time – some past duty, some by obligation, some by personal conviction and pity – including health professionals, grocery shop clerks, utility workers, and all essential staff besides many to know and who are oftentimes unseen or unacknowledged.
We too remain mindful of our ain personal Joys & Sorrows, recognizing that our personal experience is worthy of space amongst the larger story of the global community.
Reflection Song – Bobcaygeon – The Tragically Hip (Official Video)
© 1998 Universal Music Canada
Video Reading â€" “The Sudden Obliteration of Expectation†â€" Hank Dark-green in vlogbrothers â€" 20 March, 2020
Since 2007, the brothers Hank and John Green take been communicating with each other long-distance via YouTube. Each calendar week, they post a message to each other â€" Hank posts on Fridays, and John posts on Tuesdays. They make their posts public, oft speaking to the wider audience of the world wide web.
These video spider web logs, or vlogs, have made their channel â€" the vlogbrothers â€" one of the near longstanding and influential channels on YouTube.
Hymn #151 I Wish I Knew How (interpreted by Nina Simone)
Words & Music: Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas
~)-| arr. past Mary Allen Walden, 1946-1997, © 1992 UUA
(tune Mandela)
Sermon – Wuthering – Rev. Rod ESQ
In his vlog for March twenty, 2020, Hank Green tells his brother â€" and his wider internet audience â€" near his experience in finding out that he has ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune disorder in which his body attacks the lining of his large intestine, causing severe pain, and potentially leading to other consequences, like the possibility that he might need to have his colon removed, or having a greater risk of cancer.
While his diagnosis of ulcerative colitis allowed for some clarity on next steps for his health care, it left many unknowns… he actually didn’t know what kind of consequences this disease would lead to â€" or when. Moreover, he began to realize that many of his expectations nearly his future â€" the story he told himself almost his future â€" were now irrevocably changed.
Some of these expectations, he explains, were ones he wasn’t even enlightened that he had, such as the expectation that he could swallow popcorn whenever he wanted throughout his life. Popcorn is no longer an option for him, and without knowing that this was even something he expected, the option of popcorn was lost forever.
Ane manner that Hank describes this is every bit “the sudden obliteration of expectation†and the emptiness that can follow when these expectations disappear, without something firmer to take their identify, other than the knowledge that the future volition never be the same.
In looking for a word that could signify this feeling, a friend of his suggested wuthering, which the writer Emily Brontë describes equally an “atmospheric tumult†in her novel Wuthering Heights. Hank Greenish suggests that the discussion wuthering could well be used more broadly to denote a sense of doubt â€" and, more specifically, the kind of dubiety that comes with a realization that our previous expectations no longer seem realistic, and that things will never be the aforementioned again.
It may well be that Hank’s use of wuthering, in this sense, will never gain currency in everyday linguistic communication, but in exploring it as ane way to draw that sense of loss and incertitude, he reveals a very telling mutual feel in our humanity.
My friends, many of you lot are familiar with this feeling.
It might have come with the death of a loved one, or another kind of loss, similar a breakup or someone moving away. Information technology might come with the loss of a job, or it might be office of a change in health, be it due to an accident, an illness, or aging.
These days, many of u.s.a. are experiencing it together, as we figure out â€" in a global calibration â€" what the current pandemic means… now and in the time to come. We expect that things will get ameliorate, but we don’t actually know when. And when they do, they volition never be the same.
Information technology can exist difficult to contemplate this new reality.
The story we’ve told ourselves nigh our time to come seems to vanish â€" at least for the time existence â€" and we’re realizing that we’ve had certain expectations from everyday life, which are at present rare, such equally ownership groceries whenever we see fit, or finding what we’re looking for at the store, taking vacations, or traveling, or only greeting each other with a handshake or a hug.
Things like sharing a common infinite in our church building, in the presence of our community of faith, are no longer role of our week â€" and we don’t really know when that will exist possible over again. In that location are other people we’d hope to meet in person, and information technology may at present be that we won’t see them for a long time. In some cases, we might never see them over again.
These things are gone from our lives for the time beingness, and while nearly of these will return, we will not look at these parts of our lives in the aforementioned way again, knowing that they are much less certain than we’ve come to expect.
The absenteeism of these things, and their eventual â€" nevertheless precarious â€" render will go a new normal. In the meantime, nosotros are also adjusting to the new normal of remote and virtual meetings, and connecting from afar with different methods and technologies.
Information technology is non the same, yet we are learning to adapt to these alternatives, and they are condign increasingly normal.
My friends, together we are weathering the storm, the atmospheric tumult, of a collective wuthering. This new reality is becoming part of our story about our present and our futurity. This new story will shape our lives from now on, as our expectations shift and adjust toward a different sense of normalcy.
Non all of these new expectations will represent loss â€" we may in fact expect more and newer opportunities. We might expect more than virtually preparedness for pandemics, and also for making our health care system more robust altogether. We might expect a deeper awareness of all who face economic doubtfulness, in our communities nearby and around the earth, not just now, simply also at other times.
In our customs, one of the new expectations may well exist the possibility to achieve more folks from our community, and in ways nosotros haven’t tried before. What we learn from this time will remain with united states of america, and volition become part of our new story.
My friends, our new stories will somewhen help united states make full the gap â€" the distance â€" that we might be feeling today. It will non exist the same and information technology will be something new.
We may, my friends, even find a deeper sense of connection and a previously hidden wholeness.
In Solidarity, then may information technology be.
Amen
[Printer-ready version of Sermon available hither]
Copyright © 2022 Rodrigo Emilio Solano Quesnel
Closing Hymn #1021 Lean on Me (interpreted by the late Nib Withers)
Words & Music: Beak Withers, 1938-2020 © 1972 Interior Music (BMI)
Source: http://uuolinda.org/2020/04/
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