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Victoria Safford

Meditations on nature, life, and spirituality by beloved Unitarian Universalist minister Victoria Safford. "In a cemetery once, an old one in New England, I found a strangely soothing epitaph. The name of the deceased and her dates had been scoured away by wind and rain, but there was a carving of a tree with roots and branches (a classic nineteenth-century motif) and among them the words, 'She attended well and faithfully to a few worthy things.' At first this seemed to me a little meager, a little stingy on the part of her survivors, but I wrote it down and have thought about it since, and now I can't imagine a more proud or satisfying legacy. Every day I stand in danger of being struck by lightning and having the obituary in the local paper say, for all the world to see, 'She attended frantically and ineffectually to a great many unimportant, meaningless details.' How do you want your obituary to read?" —from "Set in Stone" Author - Victoria Safford. Narrator - Victoria Safford. Published Date - Sunday, 26 January 2025.

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Meditations on nature, life, and spirituality by beloved Unitarian Universalist minister Victoria Safford. "In a cemetery once, an old one in New England, I found a strangely soothing epitaph. The name of the deceased and her dates had been scoured away by wind and rain, but there was a carving of a tree with roots and branches (a classic nineteenth-century motif) and among them the words, 'She attended well and faithfully to a few worthy things.' At first this seemed to me a little meager, a little stingy on the part of her survivors, but I wrote it down and have thought about it since, and now I can't imagine a more proud or satisfying legacy. Every day I stand in danger of being struck by lightning and having the obituary in the local paper say, for all the world to see, 'She attended frantically and ineffectually to a great many unimportant, meaningless details.' How do you want your obituary to read?" —from "Set in Stone" Author - Victoria Safford. Narrator - Victoria Safford. Published Date - Sunday, 26 January 2025.

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English


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