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URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-wednesday-2026-01-07/
SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-The Circle Game—Joni Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-The Circle Game—Joni Mitchell  A
 n exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a dif
 ferent short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Sat
 urdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are wel
 come 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\, affecti
 onate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as import
 ant 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 othe
 r 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 th
 e 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: Wednesday\, January 7
 th\n\nThe Circle Game\nby Joni Mitchell\n\nYesterday a child came out to w
 onder\nCaught a dragonfly inside a jar\nFearful when the sky was full of t
 hunder\nAnd tearful at the falling of a star\n\nThen the child moved ten t
 imes round the seasons.\nSkated over ten clear frozen streams.\nWords like
  “when you're older” must appease him\,\nAnd promises of someday make 
 his dreams\n\nSixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now.\nCartwheels tu
 rn to car wheels thru the town.\nAnd they tell him take your time it won't
  be long now\,\nTill you drag your feet to slow the circles down\n\nSo the
  years spin by and now the boy is twenty.\nThough his dreams have lost som
 e grandeur coming true.\nThere'll be new dreams\, maybe better dreams\, an
 d plenty\,\nBefore the last revolving year is through.\n\nAnd the seasons 
 they go round and round\,\nAnd the painted ponies go up and down.\nWe're c
 aptive on the carousel of time.\nWe can't return\, we can only look\nBehin
 d from where we came\,\nAnd go round and round and round\nIn the circle ga
 me.\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n\n\n 	Join this class from your Web browser: http
 s://zoom.us/j/96865808923\, passcode 227385\n 	Join this class using the Z
 oom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n 	Join this class by phone: 669 900 68
 33 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n 	Join this class by one-tap o
 n mobile phones: 6699006833\,\,96865808923#  (San Jose)\n 	Phoning in\, b
 ut not in the Bay Area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8cl
 vIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Saturd
 ay\, go to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.\n\n\nQuestions? Drop 
 an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n*This activ
 ity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for
  one thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth d
 escribing 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 so
 mething 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 o
 ur values\,\n 	perceive or feel more deeply\n 	be more fully and authentic
 ally ourselves.\n 
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