Now, Pumpkins* isn’t a typical Thanksgiving story. And it might not even really fit our monthly theme of generosity. The man was creative and acted with a sense of whimsy and determination, an admirable sort, but he didn’t send his four hundred sixty-one thousand, two hundred and twelve pumpkins all around the world out of generosity.

Water Ceremony and Ingathering Sunday. Ingathering Sunday and Water Ceremony. These two not inherently related events have, through repetition, become fused in the liturgical cycle of many Unitarian Universalist congregations, and in the hearts of many individual Unitarian Universalists.