Marti Keller: Life Lessons from Middle School
Rev. Marti Keller will be the featured speaker at First E’s Celebration of Life this Sunday, presenting on “Life Lessons from Middle School”. Back to school comes early here, for many kids as early as August 1 this year, inspiring nostalgia for that very first day ever, with new shoes and crayon boxes. Or perhaps dread, most especially for what school can feel like at 12 or 13. “Eighth Grade,” a summer critical hit movie, took on one girl’s honest experiences and what they taught her. What were yours and how do they continue to inform your life in these times?
Rev. Marti Keller graduated from David Starr Jordan Junior High in Palo Alto, California, and went on to degrees in journalism and theology. This is her 20th year as a Unitarian Universalist parish and social justice minister.
She is the consulting minister for the UU Fellowship of Auburn, Alabama and the minister with the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation for whom she carries the gender equity and justice portfolio.
Marti is also a published poet and creative non fiction author, and the project director for Decatur Haiku, a year of focus on this Japanese micro verse form.
Facilitator- Robert Stewart
Musician- Jez Graham
Social Period before and after the service – come have Pastries & Coffee with Friends.