“Marking the Heart: The Uses of Memory” Rev. Laurie Bushbaum

What are our memories for? How do they guide us, teach us and sustain us?

While my mother declined from dementia over a period of 10 years and my son played with a toddler, I noticed how memory helps us find our place.

They are like markings on our heart, the hieroglyphics on our interior walls.

Rev. Laurie Bushbaum has just retired from full-time parish ministry after 33 years of service in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wi. She loves to hike, garden and create stuff.

She started quilting  at age 13 after inheriting an unfinished quilt from her great-grandmother. She is starting a new ministry called The Blue Altar, with arts programming for UU congregations.

She and her husband live in Minneapolis and are the parents of 2 young adult UU’s.