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Dear fellow Bay Area
UUs,
My name is
Daniel Zwickel and I am working to
create a foundation to fund UU and
progressive causes, itself funded by sales
of a playing card deck I designed called
Hexadec. I’m not saying it will be Shelter
Rock–West … uh, actually, I’ve been saying
just that! My goals are nothing if not
lofty.
My
bona fides: I am a birthright
Jewnitarian, grandson of a Unitarian
minister. Actually, as a musician in the
Sufi Dances of Universal Peace, I am a Jewfitarian
– Jewish on one side, Unitarian on the
other and with a soft, gooey Sufi center
in the middle. I have been a member of the
Mt. Diablo U.U. Church in Walnut Creek
since 1976. I was literally born into the
civil rights movement, my parents having
met while on a civil rights march in 1943.
I am a second-generation pacifist and
conscientious objector in the grand
tradition of Rev. John Haines Holmes, a
strong influence on my mother. My first
major Action to Witness was to walk 425
miles in a call for unilateral nuclear
disarmament at the age of 14 in the summer
of 1962, from San Diego to Vallejo. I
currently serve on the Boards of Ecumenical Peace
Institute (EPI) and War and Law League
(WALL) and have committed myself, my
music, web design skills and sound system
to help shorten the bend of the Rev.
Parker’s moral arc. And so the Board of
Shelter Rock–West … er, the Hexadec
Foundation shall consist of the some
of the bright powers of the Bay Area’s
peace and justice community. In order to
go forward I need to be able to show
people what Hexadec looks like on their
desk, and to be able to do so I need to
leverage my meager inventory of prototypes
into a proper box for Hexadec, a truly
grand (as in $s) project. I am asking
local (within driving distance) UU
churches to pledge to purchase them at $32
to $64 a pop. No money up front, just a
promise so’s to mollify my friends who are
putting up the dough to make it so.
Please
let me know, and I’ll keep you apprised of
our progress via e-mail. Soon I’ll plan a
get-together so you can experience Hexadec
hands-on.
Peace &
w/hexadecimalaciy,
Daniel Zwickel
October 14, 2017
P.S. Hexadec has its
own theme song! Listen to it …
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