BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16855@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250628T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250628T170000 DTSTAMP:20250628T143143Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-2-2025-06-28/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday) DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday) An exploration of ideas\, feelings \, and our life experiences\, using a different short reading as our sprin gboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\ , 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approa ch we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in w hich 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 freq uently in the group get to know each other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever's Z oom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members\, who al so take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session:\nSaturday\, June 28th\n\nThen came the German invasion\ , and the picture changed again. Such authors of distinction as had surviv ed the Great Purge and had managed to retain their human semblance respond ed passionately to the great wave of patriotic feeling. An astonishing phe nomenon took place: poets whose writing had been regarded with disfavour b y the authorities\, and who had consequently been published rarely and in very limited editions\, began to receive letters from soldiers at the fron ts. []\n[In these and later years] what was novel was a fact described to me by both Pasternak and Akhmatova\, that when they read their poems befor e the vast audiences who packed assembly halls to hear them\, and occasion ally halted for a word\, there were always scores of listeners present who prompted them at once – with passages from works both published and unp ublished (and in any case not publicly available). []\nI can testify only that in the autumn of 1945 the crowded bookshops\, with their understocked shelves\, the eager literary interest– indeed\, enthusiasm – of the g overnment employees who ran them\, [] argued a degree of intellectual hung er unlike that found elsewhere.Background: Russian-British philosopher Isa iah Berlin describes the literary scene in Moscow in the autumn 1945 as he recounts a trip he took there\, on which he met the poets Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1 985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128\,\,91 019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find y our local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link f or Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and click o n a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+ow ner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sac red text\, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any re ading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme importance to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically ourselves.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR