HumANist society of New Mexico

But there in the background, faint and out there in the background, faint and out of focus, are the extras. The random passersby. Each living a life as vivid and complex as your own. They carry on invisibly around you, bearing the accumulated weight of their own ambitions, friends, routines, mistakes, worries, triumphs, and inherited craziness.

When your life moves on to the next scene, theirs flickers in place, wrapped in a cloud of backstory and inside jokes and characters strung together with countless other stories you’ll never be able to see. That you’ll never know exist. In which you might appear only once. As an extra sipping coffee in the background. As a blur of traffic passing on the highway. As a lighted window at dusk.”

Humanism is all about the uniqueness of every person, and their own experiences, and the wonderful possibility of getting to know even a fraction of the lives of the people we meet.

You can see Hope’s presentation on our YouTube channel.

You may have noticed some changes in this newsletter, and in some of our other communications. Thanks to Paul Babb and the Communications Committee, we are in the process of updating our logo, and using a shorter version of our name in our publications. You can read more about this in the April newsletter.

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