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:17135@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250830T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250830T170000 DTSTAMP:20250828T023331Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2025-08-30/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Beethoven's 9th Symphony DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Beethoven'\;s 9th Symphony An exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a diffe rent short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Satur days\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welco me to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the y ears have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affection ate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as importan t as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, w ith a session only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the c onversation. 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 f riends.\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* c ome from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want t o try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday (8/30 at 4PM)\n \nThe text is Beethoven's 9th Symphony\, Mvt 3\, Measures 1-24 (The 1st 2: 44 in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hadR4t9Xjc&\ ;t=32s)\n\nThe text is the music\, but here's a description that we'll use to catalyze the discussion:\nWe hear a descending motive in the winds lik e a gently opening curtain\, and then a theme in the strings made of 3 phr ases. Each phrase falls and then rises like a spirit that finds rest and t hen a new impetus of life. Each segment of the phrase is echoed in the win ds\; one could say the winds are the world and the strings are the self. O r perhaps the winds are memory and the strings are the present. [Text base d on sources by Harvey Sachs and by Donald Tovey.]\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 19 85 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: +16699009 128\,\,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