Mary Oliver said, “Attention is the beginning of devotion” and Billy Collins suggests that our attention is our access to joy.

Rev. Anita will offer some thoughts on sacred pauses, and an invitation to find your own.

Rev. Dr. Anita Farber-Robertson, retired in August 2020 after over forty years of active ministry, serving congregations in New England as a settled minister and as an Accredited Interim Minister. She served as Interim Senior Minister at First Parish in Cambridge from 2006-8. She is the author of two books: Learning While Leading, Increasing Your Effectiveness in Ministry, for clergy and lay leaders, and Called to Community: New Directions in Unitarian Universalist Ministry which she co-authored with Dorothy Emerson.

Rev. Anita is the mother of two and stepmother of two, all adult children, grandmother of their combined eight children, and great grandmother of one, and lives by the sea in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with her dog Tinker.