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:16481@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250416T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250416T130000 DTSTAMP:20250416T191311Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-2025-04-16/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-St. Francis and the Sow-Kinnell DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-St. Francis and the Sow-Kinnell Z oom appears to be out of service and so we are going to cancel today's ses sion and enjoy this reading together next Wednesday.--Amy\, 12:12 pm \n\nA n exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a dif ferent short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Sat urdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are wel come to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affecti onate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as import ant 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 othe r 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 th e 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.\n\nThe reading for this session:\n\n\nThis Wednesday (4 /16 at 12 noon)\n\n\nThe bud\nstands for all things\,\neven for those thin gs that don’t flower\,\nfor everything flowers\, from within\, of self-b lessing\;\nthough sometimes it is necessary\nto reteach a thing its loveli ness\,\nto put a hand on its brow\nof the flower\nand retell it in words a nd in touch\nit is lovely\nuntil it flowers again from within\, of self-bl essing\;\nas Saint Francis\nput his hand on the creased forehead\nof the s ow\, and told her in words and in touch\nblessings of earth on the sow\, a nd the sow\nbegan remembering all down her thick length\,\nfrom the earthe n snout all the way\nthrough the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail\,\nfrom the hard spininess spiked out from the spine\ndown throu gh the great broken heart\nto the sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting an d shuddering\nfrom the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:\nthe long\, perfect loveliness of sow."\n–Saint F rancis and the Sow\, by Galway Kinnell\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n\n\n Join thi s class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/96865808923\, passcode 22 7385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n J oin this class by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8 923\n Join this class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833\,\,96865808 923#  (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the Bay Area?  Find your loc al number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wedne sdays. For the Zoom link for Saturday\, go to Calendar and click on a Satu rday session.\n\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uuc pa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Re ading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our so urces are secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred tex t\, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading t hat 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 intens ely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more de eply\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,Classes,Learning,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