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URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-wednesday-2026-05-13/
SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-All Threaded Together-from Train Dream
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DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-All Threaded Together-from Train D
 reams  An exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, usi
 ng a different short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions ar
 e 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 community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are a
 s important as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a ch
 eck-in\, with a session only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right i
 n to the conversation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know e
 ach other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they a
 re among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the readi
 ng in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for r
 eadings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if t
 hey want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Wednesday\, Ma
 y 13\n\n\n\n\nIn the forest\, every least thing is important.\nIt's all th
 readed together\, so you can't tell where one thing ends and another begin
 s\, if you really look at it.\nThe little insects you can't even see\, the
 y play a role as vital as the river.\nThe dead tree is just as important a
 s the living one.\nThere must me something for us to learn from that.\nThe
  world needs a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit.\n[
 The hermit] just waiting to see what [they've] been left here for.\n\nWhen
  Robert Grainier died in his sleep sometime in November 1968\, his life en
 ded as quietly as it had begun.\nHe'd never purchased a firearm or spoken 
 into a telephone.\nHe had no idea who his parents might have been\, and he
  left no heirs behind him.\nBut on that spring day [being flown in a bipla
 ne}\, as he misplaced all sense of up and down\, he felt\, at last\, conne
 cted to it all.\n\n—From the film Train Dreams\, 2025\, Clint Bentley / 
 Greg Kwedar/ Denis Johnson\n\nHow to join:\n\n\n\n 	Join this class from y
 our Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/96865808923\, passcode 227385\n 	Join t
 his class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n 	Join this class
  by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n 	Join th
 is class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833\,\,96865808923#  (San Jo
 se)\n 	Phoning in\, but not in the Bay Area?  Find your local number: htt
 ps://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the
  Zoom link for Saturday\, 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 activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That p
 roved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources are secu
 lar--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we s
 till look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us t
 o:\n\n 	connect to something of supreme importance to us\n 	feel more conn
 ected to other beings or to the universe\n 	feel more intensely alive\n 	a
 lign our lives with our values\,\n 	perceive or feel more deeply\n 	be mor
 e fully and authentically ourselves.\n 
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