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:17131@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250802T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250802T170000 DTSTAMP:20250802T172236Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2025-08-02/ 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: August 2\, 2025\n\n\nWith the skill which Alcibiades [] possessed to treat every one in the way most agreeable to him\, we cannot wonder that all his successes were attended with the most exuberant favou r and honour\; his very errors\, at times\, being accompanied by something of grace and felicity. And so in spite of great and frequent hurt that he had done the city [Athens]\, he was repeatedly appointed to office and co mmand\; while Coriolanus stood in vain for a place which his great service s had made his due. The one\, in spite of the harm he occasioned\, could n ot make himself hated\, nor the other\, with all the admiration he attract ed\, succeeded in being beloved by his countrymen [Romans].\nAlcibiades ne ver professed to deny that it was pleasant to him to be honoured\, and dis tasteful to him to be overlooked\; and\, accordingly\, he always tried to place himself upon good terms with all that he met\; Coriolanus's pride fo rbade him to pay attentions to those who could have promoted his advanceme nt\, and yet his love of distinction made him feel hurt and angry when he was disregarded. Such are the faulty parts of his character\, which in all other respects was a noble one. For his temperance\, continence\, and pro bity he claims to be compared with the best and purest of the Greeks\; not in any sort or kind with Alcibiades\, the least scrupulous and most entir ely careless of human beings in all these points.\n\nSource: Plutarch's Pa rallel Lives\, John Dryden Translation\n \;\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n Joi n this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, passco de 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 1985 7324\n Join this class 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 Wednesday 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 "Sacre d Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than n ot our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a s acred 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 mo re intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or fee l 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