As we embark upon 2026, we will explore how to step into the new year through Robert Frost’s familiar poem “The Road Not Taken,” which – hint, hint! – is not titled “The Road Less Traveled By.”

Bruce A. Bode is Minister Emeritus at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF) in Port Townsend, Washington, from which he retired in 2018 as the Senior Minister after serving the congregation for fourteen years (2004-2018). He has previously served UU congregations in Houston, Tulsa, and Grand Rapids, MI.