BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18472@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260905T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260905T170000 DTSTAMP:20260822T015535Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2-2026-09-05/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Modern art-Hobsbawm DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Modern art-Hobsbawm 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.\ nThe reading for this session: Saturday September 5:\n\n\n\n\n\nThe sacred text for this week is this photo of a reconstruction at SF MOMA (https:// drive.google.com/file/d/1SC-tQJo9C2OjiXwASLr22tTctVdKs7SQ/view?usp=sharing ) of Leo and Gertrude Stein's art gallery / living room from 1914 and this quote: “People came [to our apartment] to mock and stayed to pray” -- - Leo Stein on the gallery in his and Gertrude Stein's apartment at 27 Fle urus Street in Paris.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor additional context\, we'll discus s this quote:\n\n\n\n"[In the late 1800s] large tracts of the bourgeoisie itself found themselves so little engaged in the generation of wealth\, an d drifting so rapidly and so far away from the puritan ethic\, the values of work and effort\, accumulation through abstention\, duty and moral earn estness\, which had given them their identity\, pride and ferocious energy [....] There was likewise a crisis of ideology\, in the bourgeoise's belie f in but also in progress\, reform and a moderate liberalism. -- Eric Hobs bawm\, Age of Empire (1873-1914)\n\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate commu nity 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 ses sion only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversati on. 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.\n \n\n\nFacilitators 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 tha t role.\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 clas s using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phon e: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this cla ss by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128\,\,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 Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wed nesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.\n\ nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n  \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That prove d 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 importance to us\n feel more connecte d 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 fu lly 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:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR