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:16856@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250705T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250705T170000 DTSTAMP:20250705T213102Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-2-2025-07-05/ 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 7/05.\n\n\n\n\nVermer's "Woman holding a bala nce": https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1236-woman-holding-balance\nThe text is the painting\, but the following quote may be used to catalyze the discus sion:\nWe find\, looking back to the conversation-pieces\, even to The Pro curess\, that what is most memorable\, most lasting in their drama is the part which has been played in it by the lady. Under the pressure of male a ttention\, neither resisting nor complying\, she has remained of her natur e intact. There is inherent in her being an inviolable status\, a separate ness. In Vermeer’s maturity the subject of the conversation-pieces is in corporated in a single body\, the standing figure of a woman.\n\n She is usually alone\, waited on only by the light. Daylight\, the window itself\ , is indeed a presence in the room. It is to the light that the musician t urns from her lute\, as to a beloved visitor. And to the window the girl w ith her adornment\, her necklace\, turns no less than to the mirror first to show herself.\n No doubt the picture of the Gold Weigher might have be en painted and sold as an allegory of the Last Judgment\, in accordance wi th the subject hanging on the wall. To us\, and to the painter\, as we ima gine\, the converse allegory is the more significant\, that which gives a quality of the universal\, a cosmic balance\, to the fact of womanly judic iousness.\n\n--Lawrence Gowing\, Vermeer\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: 910 198 5 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting I D: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +166990091 28\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?   Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zo om link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar an d click on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-r eading+owner@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 sacred text\, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme impo rtance 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