This service will have spoken joys and sorrows instead of a silent ritual of candles and stones.

What would it be like to follow the annual monarch migration from Mexico to Canada and back again? And what if one was to pursue this journey on a … bicycle? Sara Dykman did just that, and then wrote about it in her book: Bicycling with the Butterflies: My 10,201 Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration. Dykman’s cross-country trek with the monarchs has much to teach us – not only about butterflies, but about the power of “getting proximate” in order to deepen our empathy and understanding of the natural world. Join Virginia-based UU minister and Executive Director of UU Ministry for Earth, Rev. Lauren Levwood, for an exploration of butterflies, bicycles, and the power of proximity, persistence, and presence.