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:17152@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251227T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251227T170000 DTSTAMP:20251221T205248Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2025-12-27/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Facts of Life-Pádraig Ó Tuama DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Facts of Life-Pádraig Ó Tuama An exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a diff erent short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Satu rdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welc ome 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\, affectio nate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as importa nt 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 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 that role.\n\nThe reading for this session:\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Facts of Life\nPádraig Ó TuamaThat you were born\nand you will die.\n\nThat you will sometimes love enough\nand sometimes not.\n\nThat you will lie\nif on ly to yourself.\n\nThat you will get tired.\n\nThat you will learn most fr om the situations\nyou did not choose.\n\nThat there will be some things t hat move you\nmore than you can say.\n\nThat you will live\nthat you must be loved.\n\nThat you will avoid questions most urgently in need of\nyour attention.\n\nThat you began as the fusion of a sperm and an egg\nof two p eople who once were strangers\nand may well still be.\n\nThat life isn’t fair.\nThat life is sometimes good\nand sometimes better than good.\n\nTh at life is often not so good.\n\nThat life is real\nand if you can survive it\, well\,\nsurvive it well\nwith love\nand art\nand meaning given\nwher e meaning’s scarce.\n\nThat you will learn to live with regret.\nThat yo u will learn to live with respect.\n\nThat the structures that constrict y ou\nmay not be permanently constraining.\n\nThat you will probably be okay .\n\nThat you must accept change\nbefore you die\nbut you will die anyway. \n\nSo you might as well live\nand you might as well love.\nYou might as w ell love.\nYou might as well love.\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, pa sscode 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 c lick on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-read ing+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "S acred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often th an 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 importa nce to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to the universe\n fee l 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:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR