{"id":8303,"date":"2020-08-23T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2023-02-09T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T03:35:27","slug":"possum-is-working-on-reducing-his-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/08\/possum-is-working-on-reducing-his-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Possum is working on reducing his stress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fourth installment in this video series:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Full text of the script is below….<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Possum: Sharpie, remember, you promised me you’d show me another spiritual practice to help me be calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: I’m going to show you one right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: But Sharpie, we’re just about to eat breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: This is a spiritual practice that you do at meal times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: That sounds cool! Let’s do it. First, let me set the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: We’re going to start with a UU spiritual practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: Hey, that’s the flaming chalice that we made last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: Yes, remember how we took an ordinary clay plant pot and the saucer, and turned the pot upside down, and glued the saucer on it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: Yeah, then I painted it! And — pretty neat paint job, if I do say so myself. Though it did take me five weeks to get all the paint out of my fur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: Mr. Bear, Elephant! Time for breakfast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: Now that I lit the flaming chalice, and we’ll go around the table and each say something we’re thankful for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Bear: I’ll start. I just heard from Ms. Bear, and I’m thankful that she’s now heading home after visiting her mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elephant: I’m thankful that we have apples on our apple tree. I love apples! [elephant trumpeting sound]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: I’m thankful for the new book I got, “New Black Gods,” with essays about the legacy of Arthur Huff Fauset’s studies of African American new religious movements in the middle twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: I’m thankful that you three are my friends and housemates. [beat] Now let’s eat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: Sharpie, this is my favorite spiritual practice yet. We should do this at every meal!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Bear: Elephant and I will go do the dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: Sharpie, I think what I like best are spiritual practices you can do with other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharpie: Then you’re going to love the final spiritual practice that I’m going to show you next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possum: I can’t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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