Resonant Reading (Saturday)-When the Mind Goes-Penick

An exploration of ideas, feelings, and our life experiences, using a different short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays, 4-5. All are wide open and you are welcome to come weekly or once in a while.

The reading for this session: Saturday October 17

The sudden disappearance of a routine memory: I cannot remember the name and even the atmosphere of a nearby street I walk on regularly. I can see it as I look down through leafless trees from the window in my high-rise apartment, but I no longer know what I’m looking at. It is a blank, a gap

I sit and wait. Inwardly, I move around the gap left by the missing word, look at the shape of the lacuna. And often, it’s as if I am looking at the edge of a pond or lake. A profusion of unsought images grows around these gaps. A pond in summer, green, thick water, a cloud of insects hovering, golden in the late afternoon light, the smell of plant rot. The street name does not return, but the street itself does. And then a name emerges. Something brown. A color. A tree. Walnut—Walnut Street.

Douglas Penick (2024, Fall). The Wall: What remains when the mind goes? Tricycle, 34(1).

The participants over the years have found that the approach we take, and the respectful, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse, are as important as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in, with a session only an hour long, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this way, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends.

Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.

How to join:

• Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324, passcode 227385
• Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
• Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose), Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
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This is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.

Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.