BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18474@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260919T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260919T225226Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2-2026-09-19/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)How Many Moons-Kooser DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)How Many Moons-Kooser An exploratio n 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. \n\n\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday\, September 19th\n\nHow m any moons have I been too busy to notice? Full moons\, half moons\, quarte r moons facing those thousands of suns\, watching them bringing the years up\, one piece at a time. Even the dark phases of moon after moon\, gray s toppers plugged into a starry sky\, letting a little light leak out around the edges. By my reckoning\, almost a thousand full moons have passed abo ve me now\, and I have been too busy and self-absorbed to be thankful for more than a few\, though month after month they have patiently laid out my shadow\, that velvety cloak that in the moonlit evenings waits for me.\n —Ted Kooser (2014). The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book (pp. 3-4)\n\n \nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, a nd the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read a nd converse\, are as important as the reading itself. While many small gro ups begin with a check-in\, with a session only an hour long\, Resonant Re ading 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 wi ll 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 that role.\n\n\n \;\n\n\nHow to joi n:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/910198573 24\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 91 0 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meet ing ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +1669 9009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay a rea?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is th e Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calenda r and click on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resona nt-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly ca lled "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more o ften than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the quali ties 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 connected to other beings or to the universe \n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perc eive 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:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR