Where is Eye Roller Friend when we need him?

Meeting for Worship last First Day:

The Friend with the Remarkable Story:
One day a dad took his sons for a walk at Green Lake. He gave the first son a pencil and paper and told him to make a mark for every daffodil he saw.

The dad told the second son to wait a bit. Then the dad gave the second son a pencil and paper and told him to walk around the lake and make a mark for every cigarette butt or piece of trash he saw.

When the first son got back, the dad asked him how much litter he had seen. None.

When the second son came back the dad asked him how many daffodils he had seen. None.

[Yeah, yeah, you will only see what you look for.]

(worshipful interval)

[RantWoman inner monologue:
What the #$#@$! kind of fahter dumps all the trash in one kid's mind and all the daffodils in the other's? Hasn't he heard of SHARING? RantWoman knows such fathers exist. They are on RantWoman's list to hold in the Light.

Hey wait a minute: some days RantWoman is absurdly happy both to be able to tell her glasses are dirty AND to be able to see the cigarette butts, if she looks JUST right!

But hasn't anyone thought of picking UP the trash?

And what about the part that is actually biodegradable and could help nourish MORE daffodils?

Daffodils! Bulbs! Gee it would be nice to have a garden!]

(worshipful interval)

[Rantwoman, STOP, STOP, just STOP! RantWoman has more than once subjected herself to a certain well-known personality test. RantWoman always scores strongly in one direction on one of the axes. This sort of overflowing capacity to free associate is a well-known behavior among those who score as RantWoman does. RantWoman knows from being around people who score even more strongly than she does, this can be highly disconcerting to other people, for instance sometimes in meetings. STOP! STOP! STOP!]

(worshipful interval)

Call me up and I Will Figure it out For your Friend.
(some darned message that reminds RantWoman both why Call Me Up Friend is dear to RantWoman and why she is also on RantWoman's Frequent Flyer "Could You Please see if God gives the word to someone else" list. RantWoman considers it her own moral failing that nothing more of the content stuck in her head.)

(worshipful interval)

Conflict is a Gift of God Friend:
...ocean of darkness ...ocean of Light and the Light also shines into the darkess within.....

[RantWoman inner monologue: the whole universe must be in sync; RantWoman just posted something like that in one of her Salt and light Fora]

(Not quite enough worshipful interval)

RantWoman dragged to her feet with not at ALL the message she had been seasoning:
Dudu Mtshazo, then clerk of South Africa Yearly Meeting, spoke one time at our Annual Session. She spoke of the time after apartheid fell when there needed to be reconcilation between people who had stayd in the country, people who had gone to prison, and people who had gone into exile. But she also spoke about how, during Apartheid, it was a revolutionary act for people of different races to get together and pray.

(surprisingly long worshipful interval, especially considering the children had long entered but were not even squirming.)


Close of Worship, Announcements, People starting to Chatter.


Weighty Friend who Disdains email but does better by email than aloud. Guess why:

RantWoman, I know you couldn't see it but there were all these people across the room holding their hands up by their ears.

[RantWoman: ahem. I cannot even read faces in committee meetings. How the #$#@# do you expect me to be able to tell someone across the room has cupped their hand to their ear?]

RantWoman: I would not have minded at all if someone had just said "Louder Please."

Three more Friends including the one writing notes for the Friend with the most hearing loss: RantWoman, WHAT was your message? (short summary)

[RantWoman: I KNOW Eye Roller Friend could do the "Louder Please." Where is he when we need him?]

Our Daily Bread on who do we see:

http://odb.org/2012/03/30/who-do-we-see/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+odb%2Ffeed+%28Our+Daily+Bread%29

and Johan Maurer on Being Wrong is not the same as being evil
http://johanpdx.blogspot.com/2012/03/being-wrong-is-not-same-as-being-evil.html