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Life Among the People: Observations of Modern India
Content: The slums of Kolkata are alive with a powerful sense of community, neighborhood interaction, and family interaction. Occurred: July 21 thru 23, 2012 Location: Red Victorian B&B and Peaceful World Center, San Francisco, California, USA Event: Public travelogue Occurred: June 23, 2012 Location: Denver, Colorado, USA Event: Private party Occurred: May 10, 2012 Location: Friendship Village, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Event: Travelogue Occurred: May 5, 2012 Location: Studio 1219, Port Huron, Michigan, USA Event: Travelogue with dinner |
"Your presentation at Unity (of Kalamazoo church) was wonderful! You were simply great. Short, sweet, right to the heart. Just keep doing what are you doing and you will reach so many people with your message to make their lives better." —K.E.
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India's Religious Diversity
Content: Experience religious ceremonies of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians plus conversations with Jews, Jains, Zoroastrians. Occurred: August 24, 2012 Location: Spiritwalkers Retreat, Mt. Shasta, California, USA Event: Community presentation Occurred: July 28, 2012 Location: Auburn Library, Auburn, California, USA Event: Community presentation hosted by Sierra Friends of Tibet Occurred: June 24, 2012 Location: Denver, Colorado, USA Event: Private party Occurred: June 17, 2012 Location: Unity of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Event: Sunday service, including a tribute to male energy for Father's Day Occurred: May 8, 2012 Location: Citizens for Peace monthly meeting at Unity of Livonia Church, Livonia, Michigan, USA Event: Public meeting Occurred: May 6, 2012 Location: Unity of Blue Water Church, Port Huron, Michigan, USA Event: Sunday service Occurred: April 29, 2012 Location: Peace Unity Church and Holistic Center, Clarkston, Michigan, USA Event: Sunday service Occurred: March 11, 2012 Location: Sambodh Center for Human Excellence, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Event: Sunday spiritual gathering and discussion |
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Harmony Through Education
Content: The mentally challenged children of Harmony Through Education school in Dharamsala, India, reveal the enchanting charm of desire to learn. Occurred: July 18, 2012 Location: Artesia (Los Angeles), California, USA Event: Private fundraiser hosted by Care for the Cause |
Members of Care for the Cause surround Seth Shaffer (center rear), founder of Harmony Through Education.
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Sharon Kleyne Hour: Health, Environment, & the Power of Water
Occurred: June 25, 2012 Location: World Talk Radio Event: Interview by host Sharon Kleyne, founder, president, and research director of Bio-Logic Aqua Technologies Biomedical Research, Inc. Listen to our conversation (begins at 10 minutes, 30 seconds into the program). |
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Your Life Now Radio Show Occurred: June 21, 2012 Location: Your Life Now and Coaching by Rea Internet radio show Event: Interview by host, life coach Rea Wilke (Coach Rea). Episode: "Do you have a story to tell?" Read summary. Listen to our conversation. Download on itunes (scroll to "Do you have a story to tell?"). |
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Mothers' Love
Content: A Mother's Day program of examples of mother's love from personal experience, indigenous cultures, cinema, and literature. Occurred: May 13, 2012 Location: Unitarian Fellowship of Sarnia and Port Huron, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Event: Sunday service "How lovely to have you visit us again and share
the bounty of your world travels. You are one of our favorites! May the wind always be at your back." —S.M. |
I (in mortarboard cap) with my father, mother (in wheelchair), grandmothers, and foreign exchange student Alfredo Carreaga at our high school graduation, Port Huron (Michigan) Catholic, 1966
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"Magma"
Science fiction radio drama, live production by All Ears Theatre, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Occurred: May 12, 2012 Location: First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo Story line: Miko the Miraculous and Madj Madjic, the two most daring daredevils the world has ever known, embark on a mission to propel a manned probe into and around the Earth's inner core. Will they survive? |
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How Could So Many Murder So Many? Content: Germany's economic, social, and political situation after World War I and into the 1930s was fertile ground for radicalism. The Nazi Party and Hitler sated the popular demand. "How Could So Many Murder So Many?" includes a short video of the engaging, interactive Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in East Berlin then discussion of the victims (including non-Jews), abettors throughout Europe, and similarities and differences between then and now. Occurred: April 10, 2012 Location: Unitarian Fellowship, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Event: Public workshop Occurred: April 3, 2011 Location: Unity of Blue Water Church, Port Huron, Michigan, USA Event: Public workshop Occurred: March 8, 2011 Location: Unity Church of Livonia, Livonia, Michigan, USA Event: Citizens for Peace monthly meeting (campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace; the Peace Alliance) First the Nazis went after the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did not object. Then they went after the Catholics, but I was not a Catholic, so I did not object. Then they went after the trade-unionists, but I was not a trade-unionist, so I did not object. Then they came after me, and there was no one left to object. --Pastor Martin Neimoller, Confessional Church and pacifist "Your presentation 'How Could So Many Murder So Many?' gripped the Citizens for Peace audience from start to finish. You took us on a soul-searching journey with your interactive, thought provoking, visually powerful performance. You are a master speaker who knows how to engage and emotionally involve everyone." —C.M.
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 The yellow blots on this map in the Informaction Centre at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial) show 500 of thousands of sites related to Nazi persecution: camps, ghettos, mass shootings, and deportation points.
 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is deceivingly placid around the edge, but walking only a few steps among the concrete, coffin-size stellae shows how people and societies can find themselves "over their heads" in economic hardship, seperatism, corruption, torture, and death.
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Under Angels' Wings:
Intention, Manifestation, and People Who Helped Me on My Journey Content: "Have Laptop, Will Travel" are words I wrote on my business card in 2004. My idea was that I would write and travel. The Divine Universe had other ideas: write and travel while also editing books of other authors. The manifestation has proven to be much greater than I had imagined or could have planned. For example, when traveling to eight nations for 116 days in 2010, I eschewed hotels as much as possible, staying in homes and sailing aboard ships. Through philosophical conversation, I shared discussion with people from eight nations about universal wants and desires, about humanity's global commonality. I saw and experienced the awesome power of intentions -- and you can too! "To know what you've been intending, look at what you have now." Occurred: June 26, 2011 Location: Unity Church of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Event: Sunday service Occurred: April 10, 2011 Location: Unitarian Fellowship, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Event: Sunday service |
 Robert Weir (right) enjoys an evening with the Gold family in Himmelfporten, Germany. Karsten Gold (left) met Robert on a commuter train and invited him to supper prepared by Hiltrud (center). The evening included a world geography lesson and a bedtime story.
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Blessing of the Fleet
Occurred: April 10, 2010 Location: Great Lakes Maritime Center at Vantage Point, Port Huron, Michigan, USA Event: Blessing of the Great Lakes Commercial Shipping Fleet Description: As a former chaplain of the Port Huron Yacht Club, I was one of three chaplains who offered prayers. The event was also attended by numerous maritime captains and public service officers, maritime cadets, and a traditional bagpiper. |
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Season for Nonviolence*:
Expanding the Season Occurred: April 4, 2011 Location: Upper Level Acoustic Cafe, Port Huron, Michigan, USA Event: Season for Nonviolence closing ceremony Message: The Season for Nonviolence is a season. Our objective is to be at peace for eternity. The Region of Nonviolence is within. Our objective is be at peace among all. Our method is to realize global human commonality. * The Season for Nonviolence is a 64-day period from March 31 to April 4 to commemorate the lives and peace endeavors of Mohandis Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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It's About the Resurrection
Content: One paradigm of Lent and Easter is that we must sacrifice because Jesus did for our sins. The modern Unity paradigm says that Lent is a time to let go of any thought structure that no longer serve our spiritual god and rejoice in Jesus' great accomplishment: the resurrection. Occurred: April 3, 2011 Location: Unity of Blue Water Church, Port Huron, Michigan, USA Event: Sunday service |
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Sharon Kleyne Hour: Health, Environment, & the Power of Water
Content: My adventures aboard tall ships Royal Clipper and Kaliakra in April and May, 2010 with subtopics of health, physical fitness, mental preparedness, water, and global unity. Occurred: February 28, 2011 Location: World Talk Radio What: Interview by host Sharon Kleyne, founder, president, and research director of Bio-Logic Aqua Technologies Biomedical Research, Inc. To listen: click here (Length: 56:30; interview begins at 02:12) |
 Crew aboard three-masted barquentine Kaliakra on Aegean Sea in the Historical Seas Tall Ships Regatta,
12 May 2010. |
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"The Lost Art"
Occurred: January 22, 2011 Location: First Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA What: "The Lost Art," an original radio drama by Robert M. Weir, performed live by All Ears Theatre (Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo) in the style of the Golden Age of Radio with live voice talent, sound effects, and original music. Story line: Cassandra Clubs is an investigator who specializes in the recovery of stolen art and cultural artifacts. A mysterious woman contacts her and asks her to help recover stolen Roman artifacts from around the time of 300 A.D. Cassandra agrees and before she realizes it, her quest for the missing treasure has her traveling throughout the Mediterranean. Broadcast: WMUK-FM (102.1) in Southwest Michigan, Sunday, February 27, 4:00 pm |
 "The Lost Art" features an all-woman cast, the first in All Ears Theatre history. Pictured are (left) Kira Sanscrainte as Marianna, Christina Clarke as Jasmine, Justine McKenna who played five cameo parts, Shelley Johnson as Cassandra (Cass) Clubs, and announcer Mickey Sykes.
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Great CrossingsContent: PowerPoint presentation featuring the three ships I sailed aboard this past summer:
-- Five masted tall ship Royal Clipper across the Atlantic from Barbados to Malaga, Spain; -- Three-masted sail training vessel Kaliakra from Volos, Greece, to Varna, Bulgaria; -- Ferry and cargo ship Translubeca from Lubeck, Germany, to Sankt Petersburg, Russia; plus -- Various watercraft in Hamburg, Germany. Occurred: April 9, 2011 Location: Studio 1219, Port Huron, Michigan, USA Event: Public showing w/ dinner (sold out) Occurred: April 2, 2011 Location: Great Lakes Maritime Center at Vantage Point, Port Huron, Michigan, USA Event: Public showing w/ dinner (sold out) Occurred: November 9, 2010 Location: Sports Forum, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Event: Monthly meeting of the Kalamazoo Sail & Power Squadron |
 Royal Clipper's foremast and square-rigged sails, as seen from the prow.
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Common Threads and
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  "The Messenger," a painting by Kim Ensch was one of the pieces of art on display at the "Common Threads" exhibit at Madonna University in Livonia.
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Rebuilding Religious RussiaContent: Russians in Pushkin, Moscow, other cities, and rural areas are rebuilding churches, cathedrals, and cultural monuments that lend character to the country's dedication to their religious heritage.
Some of these edifices were destroyed during World War I, World War II, or the Communist Era, but their memories were never removed from peoples’ minds. And now the people are bringing them back. The program tours St. Catherine’s Cathedral in Pushkin; Holy Resurrection Cathedral and Cathedral to Our Lady of Kazan in Sankt Petersburg; and, in Moscow, St. Basil’s Cathedral, Temple of Christ the Savior, and other churches within Red Square and the Kremlin. Occurred: March 21, 2011 Location: St. Michael Lutheran Church, Portage, Michigan Event: St. Michael Lutheran Women's Fellowship monthly meeting Occurred: 20 October 2010 Location: Oshtemo Branch of the Kalamazoo Public Library, Kalamazoo, Michigan Event: Kalamazoo-Pushkin Partnership monthly meeting |
  The recently reconstructed
St. Catherine's Cathedral in Pushkin's town centre. The original cathedral had been destroyed and replaced with a statue of Lenin during the Communist regime; this iteration matches the original and was dedicated on Sunday, June 27, 2010, as part of Pushkin's 300th anniversary celebration. |
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Sharon Kleyne Hour: Health, Environment, & the Power of Water
Occurred: March 29, 2010 Location: World Talk Radio What: Interview by host Sharon Kleyne, founder, president, and research director of Bio-Logic Aqua Technologies Biomedical Research, Inc. Topic: My upcoming plans to travel for four months to eight nations, staying as much as possible in people's homes and absorbing their culture and customs. Nations to visit: Barbados, Azores, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, India. Waters to cross: Atlantic Ocean on tall ship Royal Clipper, Aegean and Black seas on tall ship and Baltic Sea on cargo/passenger ferry Kaliakra,Translubeca. To listen: click here (Length: 57:20; interview runs from 05:40 to 37:15) |
 Russian tall ship Mir at sunset on the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey, sailing in the Historical Seas Tall Ships Regatta, 18 May 2010.
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Sharon Kleyne Hour: Health, Environment, & the Power of Water
Occurred: December 14, 2009 Location: World Talk Radio What: Interview by host Sharon Kleyne, founder, president, and research director of Bio-Logic Aqua Technologies Biomedical Research, Inc. Topic: John McConnell, creator of the Earth Flag and the original Earth Day on the vernal equinox, and John's biography, which I wrote, titled Peace, Justice, Care of Earth. To listen: click here (Length: 53:20; interview runs from 08:45 to 35:37) |
 John McConnell, founder of the original Earth Day on the vernal equinox (1970) and creator of the Earth Flag.
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