"One of our guiding UU principles is respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part, and we need to understand the part we play in it America now, the part we have played, and the part we would like to play well into the future. “And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that make one circle, wide as daylight and starlight… to shelter all the children of one mother and one father,” the Lakota medicine man Black Elk said, “and I saw that it was holy.” Can we see so many interlocking circles? Can we appreciate how enormous and inclusive they are? Can we revere them as holy?"