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:17143@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T170000 DTSTAMP:20251013T183116Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2025-10-25/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Elder Statesmen-Judt DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Elder Statesmen-Judt 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 \, 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 approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate commun ity of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as the r eading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, with a sess ion only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversatio n. 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 c alling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from g roup members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session:\n\n\nSaturday\, October 18th\n\n At first sight it may seem rather odd that so much of the rehabilitation o f postwar Europe was the work of men (Winston Churchill (born 1874) Clemen t Atlee (born 1883)\, Konrad Adenauer (born 1876)\, Alcide de Gasperi (the leader of Italian Christian Democratic Partym born 1881)) who reached mat urity and entered politics many decades before. But it is perhaps not so v ery surprising after all.\n\nThe old men who rebuilt Western Europe repres ented continuity. The vogue between the wars had been for the new and the modern. Parliaments and democracies were seen by many—and not just Fasci sts and Communists—as decadent\, stagnant\, corrupt and in any case inad equate to the tasks of the modern state. War and occupation dispelled thes e illusions\, for voters if not for intellectuals. In the cold light of pe ace\, the dull compromises of constitutional democracy took on a new appea l. What most people longed for in 1945 was social progress and renewal\, t o be sure\, but combined with the reassurance of stable and familiar polit ical forms.\n\nStatesmen whose experience reached back beyond the troubled inter-war decades to the more settled and self-confident era before 1914 thus had a particular attraction. In the continuity of their person they c ould facilitate a difficult transition from the over-heated politics of th e recent past to a coming era of rapid social transformation. Whatever the ir party ‘label’\, the elder statesmen of Europe were all\, by 1945\, skeptical\, pragmatic practitioners of the art of the possible.\n—Tony J udt\, Postwar\n\n\n \;\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, pas scode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7 324\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?  F ind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom l ink for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and cl ick on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-readi ng+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sa cred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often tha n 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 a ny reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme importan ce 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