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  - Respect is a UCOM core value
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  - What Kind of Community Does UCOM Envision?
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  - Land of the free???
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  - Can We Stop Killing Each Other for a Minute?
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  - Happy new year?
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  - Now that's what I call love...
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  - Anti-Racism is a Goal
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2018
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  - Thousands take to the streets for GOOD food
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  - Building the beloved community
2017
- December
  - The greatest of these is love...
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  - Going in Circles
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  - 9 Ways UCOM is better by HAELFS
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  - No mail for 35 years
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  - An Undocumented American Speaks from the Heart
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  - In Blessing we are Blessed
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  - Five Things Our Clients Say We Don't Do At UCOM
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  - Getting There One Person at a Time
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  - Not So Strange: 3 Human Ways We Can Make Immigration Easier Now
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2012
- December
  - Concentrating on the Jewels
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  - Dignity
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Happy new year?

January 1^st, 2022

Here we are. A brand new year lies before us. My question is not so much “what are you going to do with this year“, but “how are you going to accomplish the things that you hope for, dream of, and need in this new year.”

Frankly,...
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How to Stop Being Too Busy

July 29^th, 2013

Under-commit

We might as well face it. Those of us who realize how many things we can do well are not so much arrogant as needy. We need to be honored with all those invitations to sit on boards and committees, plan major projects and save the world.

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