The NOTEBOOK, the Bleeping NOTEBOOK

Stunning clarity has arrived for RantWoman. All year RantWoman periodically tried to have conversation with Phone Call Friend about updating the resource book the Subcommittee on Interpersonal Violence originally created when our Meeting was figuring out the three ministries connected with the presence of the Safest Sex Offender on the Planet.

To review, the three ministries are:

Support specifically for the Safest Sex Offender....

Ensuring the safety of children around our Meeting.

Ministering to survivors (and people whose lives touch survivors.)
More on this below.

God Bless Phone Call Friend. RantWoman finally got the message loud and clear: Phone Call Friend sees her task as making sure the notebook has some aspects of history completely documented. RantWoman has two or three times suggested including some links to online resources. RantWoman is acutely aware that pastoral care concerns show up where they show up, not necessarily confined to or by seeking out any particular committees.

RantWoman has two or three times suggested inquiring of current committees as to whether they are aware of the notebook as a resource. RantWoman has two or three times pointed out that RantWoman personally is not bleeping even going to be able to read the bleeping notebook and would it MAYBE be possible to make some more updated information available on our website? RantWoman would GREATLY appreciate some sense that some around her have at least collided with online resources involving certain vocabulary and issues.

Finally it has dawned on RantWoman that she need not wait around for some muddled process in her meeting. The kinds of info RantWoman wishes people would interact with can be found on any halfway decent website about domestic violence resources. If RantWoman wants conversations to involve informed use of certain terms, RantWoman can bleeping well go out on the web herself and make some links and then just put blog entries under the noses of....

To that end, RantWoman has at least poked at all of:


http://www.wscadv.org/


http://www.wscadv.org/resourcesPublications.cfm


http://www.wscadv.org/aboutDV.cfm


http://www.wscadv.org/resourcesPublications.cfm?aId=CA9A1567-C298-58F6-01344B9FFFF3E00F




As for the other ministries:

Support for the safest Sex Offender... is evolving into a support and accountability committee.

Safety for our children is the current best practice on planet capitalism, background checks for people who work with children and two adults with children for Meeting activities. RantWoman as official and most unavoidably visible legally blind person feels called on behalf of herself, others who use whie canes, and still others who confess their vision sufferings to RantWoman to speak up periodically and ask children to be cautious around grownups they do not know. RantWoman sees this as including children more fully in the community, NOT as a slam about anyone's parenting.

RantWoman is also conscious of echoes of what must have been severe frustration for the RantDad and that came out as yelling. RantWoman's grip is NOT particularly any better than RantDad's was and as RantWoman's vision has gotten worse, RantWoman has become clearer to speak up an be insistent as a way to keep a handle on the urge to yell.

One of the things RantWoman did to stay out of trouble at last summer's Annual Session was to try to help articulate a child safety issue that would not have been addressed by any of those measures and REALLY needed clear, direct, conversation centered in THOUGHTFUL listening. RantWoman is going to spare her readers commentary as to the specific circumstances reminding her that this is something NEVER to be taken for granted.