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:17216@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T130000 DTSTAMP:20260411T034841Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-wednesday-2026-04-15/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday\, April 15)-The Ancient Tribes—Hawks DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday\, April 15)-The Ancient Tribes—Ha wks An exploration 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 a re welcome to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants ov er the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, a ffectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a chec k-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 eac h 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 rea dings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if the y want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Wednesday\, Apri l 15th\n\nJohn Hawks has studied the way human biology has changed over th e last 10\,000 years.\n\nHawks: "The first peoples fascinate us\, which is natural because they are us—ancestors of everybody today. But we've com e to realize that\, when we look at their skulls\, their faces\, they're n ot our faces. We've changed. The obvious question is why?"\n\nNarrator: Ha wks believes that humans are acutely responsive to changes in lifestyle. O nce we stopped hunting and gathering\, we started eating different foods. That alone was enough to change the shape of our skulls. And\, living in c ities\, our brains aren't having to work so hard\; we rely on the intellig ence of others.\n\nHawks: "It may be surprising\, but\, when we started to settle down\, our skulls not only changed in shape\; they began to shrink . Presumably\, our brains shrank as well. The first peoples\, they lived i n very tiny groups. Anything that they wanted to make\, they had to know h ow to make it. Any food that they needed to find\, they needed to know whe re it was in their environment. The knowledge accumulated over generations \; they had to have it all right here."\n\nNarrator: Living by their wits\ , these pioneers opened up a new world. Whether they came by sea or by lan d\, we now know they arrived at least 2\,000 years earlier than previously thought and populated the Americas at breakneck speed.\n\n—John Hawks\, University of Wisconson–Madison from PBS The Ancient Tribes That Settle d the Americas\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nHow to join:\n\n\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/96865808923\, passcode 2273 85\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Joi n this class by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 892 3\n Join this class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833\,\,9686580892 3#  (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 Wednesd ays. For the Zoom link for Saturday\, go to Calendar and click on a Saturd ay session.\n\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa .org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Read ing." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sour ces 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 tha t helps us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme importance to us\n fe el more connected to other beings or to the universe\n feel more intensel y alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deep ly\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:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR