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:17186@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T130000 DTSTAMP:20250912T230323Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-wednesday-2025-09-17/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Under the Sun-Willa Cather DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Under the Sun-Willa Cather An exp loration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a differen t short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturday s\, 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 year s have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important a s 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 conv ersation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other ver y well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among frie nds.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the cha t 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 t ry that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Wednesday\, September 17th\ n\nI sat down in the middle of the garden\, where snakes could scarcely ap proach unseen\, and leaned my back against a warm yellow pumpkin. There we re some ground-cherry bushes growing along the furrows\, full of fruit. I turned back the papery triangular sheaths that protected the berries and a te a few. All about me giant grasshoppers\, twice as big as any I had ever seen\, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines. The gophers scur ried up and down the ploughed ground. There in the sheltered draw-bottom t he wind did not blow very hard\, but I could hear it singing its humming t une up on the level\, and I could see the tall grasses wave. The earth was warm under me\, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers. Queer littl e red bugs came out and moved in slow squadrons around me. Their backs wer e polished vermilion\, with black spots. I kept as still as I could. Nothi ng happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it\, like the pumpkins\, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire\, whether it is sun and air\, or go odness and knowledge. At any rate\, that is happiness\; to be dissolved in to something complete and great. When it comes to one\, it comes as natura lly as sleep.\n–from Book 1\, Chapter 2 of My Antonia by Willa Cather\n\ n\nHow to join:\n\n\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zo om.us/j/96865808923\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom ap p: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join this class by one-tap on mobi le phones: 6699006833\,\,96865808923#  (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 Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Saturday\, g o to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.\n\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-m ail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity wa s formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one t hing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describ ing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the readin gs we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to somethin g 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 val ues\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically o urselves.\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