Sarah Bridgesong's last second Zoom open house invite.

     RantWoman, WHAT is Sarah Bridgesong doing here? Getting the New Year's Eve Open House invites out at the last second is appalling enough. Why you gotta invite Sarah B too?

UPDATE News Bulletin: RantWoman realizes that Sarah Bridgesong needed to say that one reason she will show up is that one of the invited guests has some of the same accessibility issues as Sarah B, but only temporarily. No this invitee probably does not want to show up on camera. Nor will this guest want to say a lot out loud This guest did not show up at the party, but RantWoman is happy to live with Sarah Bridgesong's need to go "see! See! See!"

Like God, Sarah B is going to show up regardless. Plus RantWoman was having one of those stream of consciousness arguments that, at least around Planet RantWoman, sometimes replay old dialogues in the hustle and bustle of party prep. Plus RantWoman admits a certain affection for people passionate in their beliefs. "Accessibility" sounds lovely but 1. Sarah B can break a large number of accessibility measures almost effortlessly. and her not-so-secret quest for world domination involves eradicating all forms of ableism everywhere. So she may be a real fun party guest?

First, let's get the invitation on the record:

This invitation is coming frightfully late but if you have time to drop by my New Years Eve afternoon open house you would be mostwelcome.

I had so much fun doing a Thanksgiving open house, I decided to try it again. Apologies for the very late notice, but I would like to inviteyou and anyone you would like to bring to a casual New Year's Eve open house Thursday December 31, 2020 from 3 pm to 8 pm Pacific time.

You are welcome to drop in anytime. I am sending out some invitations to clumps of people who know each other and are invited to collaborate and show up at the same time. Some of you may also get this more than once.

The invite lists are from several parts of my life. Spouses, kids,grandkids, pets, Christmas trees, snow globes, theme decorations all welcome.

This event is intended to be relaxing with time for conversation about music movies, books, binge media.... Respectful discussion of politics and civic issues welcome. If people get too mired in buzzwords, though, I reserve the right to ask people, if you were going to thank the outgoing occupant of the White House for his service, what would you say?

Since it's a Zoom meeting everyone gets to handle your own refreshments and after party cleanup.

Some questions to seed conversation:

What are favorite parts of your holiday celebrations?

What are you most eager to get rid of as we kick 2020 out the door?

Is there anything you will miss or would like to hold onto about 2020? 

What are you looking forward to?

Any amazing technology adventures or misadventures. Feel free to ask me about my video conferencing apps world tour or what it looks like to try to make a Christmas cactus photo into a Zoom background.

Accessibility notes:

--If someone wants to help about captioning conversation, please get in touch before the party begins.

--I want to leave the chat open but encourage people to use it sparingly. Screen reader users, if you need help turning off chat notifications, I am glad to help.

--If you rely on lip-reading... Oh Wait....

(Readers who would like the Zoom link, please leave a comment)

Whether you can make it to the party or not, heartfelt wishes for joy, good health, abundance in 2021

Warmly,

RantWoman

Snow Globes

Yep. It's Zoom But still
Wear a mask if you are sharing Zoom space
with someone outside your household

Cat image in honor of
all the randomness
in people's Zoom events

 (Look, it's the best RantWoman's graphical skills can do to simulate a Zoom view.)

Cue Sarah Bridgesong:

"But But But it says here " If your Zoom connection does not show your picture, you will be asked to identify yourself." Won't there be a bunch of blind people, many of whom don't use avatars? and What if someone needs to lipread? 

Look, when we ask people to introduce themselves, how about we ask for two or three of the following:

Name, preferred pronouns, any access needs, physical description,  what they are wearing, and what land acknowledgment they want to offer. And please keep each introduction to less than 3 hours?

RantWoman! Go to Bed! You have a party to host. How about lose the snarky, at least a little?

asked to identify yourself.

Hospitality? with sedimentology, a memorial, and vision loss

 RantWoman is posting thoughts here both with appreciation and with humility. Besides what RantWoman has seen of a memorial minute, some of what is here RantWoman might say at a memorial Meeting for Worship. Some of what is here is more general reflection on community life and particularly on Planet RantWoman.

First, a memorial minute, such as RantWoman has seen:

Charlotte Schreiber Memorial Minute

 

Professor Emerita  B. Charlotte Schreiber, 89, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 17, 2020 after a brief illness. Charlotte was a geologist, and an internationally recognized expert in sedimentology.

 

Charlotte was born on June 27, 1931, in Brooklyn, NY to Herman and Eugenia Warembat, first generation Jewish immigrants from Poland.  She blazed her own trail for the entirety of her 89 years.

 

After graduating Hunter College High School, Charlotte completed her A.B. in Geology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1953, and later earned her M.S. in Sedimentology and Micropaleontology from Rutgers University in 1966. On completing her Ph.D. at 45 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, which she spent at Imperial College, London. She taught at Queens College (C.U.N.Y) and was a Senior Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. Study of the earth was her passion, and so even after her official retirement she held an adjunct professorship at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, and from 2006 to present an affiliate professorship at University of Washington in Seattle, WA. 

 

An extraordinary scientist and educator, Charlotte’s deep knowledge, intense curiosity, and keen intuition led her to creative insights and significant discoveries in her chosen specialty of sedimentology. A prolific researcher, she authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and was celebrated with the highest level of honors for her field, including the prestigious Sorby Medal, the highest award of the International Association of Sedimentologists.

 

As a mentor, collaborator, and friend to scores of her students and colleagues, Charlotte combined determination, hard work, and raw talent, earning the deepest respect and admiration from  her peers. At a time when the academic world could be deeply challenging to female scientists, Charlotte served tirelessly as a role model and inspiration to several generations of talented young women. Endlessly fascinated by the natural world, Charlotte continued to make major contributions in her discipline well into her 80s, co-authoring papers, advising colleagues, mentoring students, delivering lectures and travelling to remote geological sites.

 

Charlotte first encountered Quakers as a teen when, on one of her many bicycle rides around Queens, she discovered the historic meetinghouse of Flushing Monthly Meeting, one of the oldest meetinghouses in the United States.  She attended there throughout high school and into college. 

 

Charlotte married Edward Schreiber and the couple lived in St Louis while he served in the Air Force.  There was no Quaker meeting there.  When the couple moved back to the east coast so that Edward could attend graduate school at Alfred University, Charlotte attended the local Friends meeting.  While at Alfred, Charlotte and Edward had their two daughters, Susie and Christie.  The family moved closer to New York City and Edward and Charlotte both served as members of the Queens College faculty until Edward’s death in 1991 and Charlotte’s retirement in 1993. While in the greater New York area Charlotte was a member of the Rockland Friends Meeting for several decades. 

 

Retiring to western North Carolina to be nearer to one of the girls, Charlotte became a very active member of the Celo Friends Meeting in Burnsville, NC (Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association).  Her contributions there included working to create a new building that would house a caretaker’s apartment and shared spaces for gatherings, and several years later, a campaign for a new Meetinghouse.  While in North Carolina Charlotte also served on the board of the Arthur Morgan School, a Friends boarding school, and donated her time and energy to the work of Habitat for Humanity.  She continued her academic work at nearby Appalachian State University.

 

When Charlotte moved to Seattle in 2005 to be near both her daughters (Seattle and Eugene, OR), she was encouraged to volunteer in the Geology department by a former student who wanted to see more of a female presence in the department.  Charlotte was quickly offered a position as an affiliate professor and, though retired now for 12 years, Charlotte continued to work tirelessly teaching and supervising graduate students.  She enjoyed traveling the world for her ongoing work in geology, especially around the Mediterranean.

 

When at home in Seattle, she also involved herself deeply with the University Friends Monthly Meeting where she became a member in 2010.  She served on Buildings and Grounds, Friends Center and Hospitality committees.  Charlotte’s most tangible gifts to UFM were the wonderful baked goods she tirelessly provided for the 10:30 Social Time and Meeting Retreats.  Charlotte’s hospitable and generous nature enriched many lives within the meeting, both at the meetinghouse and in our private homes.

Always an insatiable reader and devoted pet owner, Charlotte’s favorite form of relaxation was to curl up with a good book, and one of her long line of four-footed friends. 

Preceded in death by her husband and scientific collaborator, Dr. Edward Schreiber, and her sister, Lynn Roeder, Charlotte is survived by her daughters, Christie of Cottage Grove, OR, and Sue, of Seattle, WA, nieces, nephews, as well as many others she informally adopted into her world and family.

 

Some things RantWoman might say at a Memorial Meeting for Worship 

One of RantWoman's college housemates is also a graduate of Hunter College High School, a very prestigious high school in New York. Many graduates have gone on to important work in STEM fields.

RantWoman always found it fascinating to talk to Charlotte. Charlotte's career spanned the formulation of the theory of plate tectonics. RantWoman assumes that the nature of science is that many people deserve credit for contributing to this theory. RantWoman has no basis for further opinion about how this point applies to Charlotte's work   

RantWoman did not discuss sedimentology in depth with Charlotte. RantWoman does remember a conversation about Charlotte's male colleagues. expecting her to make the coffee. She is in good company with other professional women of her generation. Considering the issue of coffeemaking during Charlotte's career, probably everyone should be deeply grateful for how much coffee she made at UFM.

Hospitality Committee

RantWoman and Charlotte were briefly co-clerks of hospitality committee. RantWoman cheerfully said yes to Nominating Committee's suggestion with blithe disregard for the impact vision loss was having on her life and ability to get along with people. There are certain supply organizing / shopping / laundry parts of the role that Charlotte just did without being asked. RantWoman was very grateful, but that also maybe was an impediment to better shared workload and sense of community among committee members. 

RantWoman also was pretty fearless about just doing lots of the Sunday tasks of the job: make the coffee, operate the dishwasher. Rolling the coffee cart around among all the people bobbing and weaving during or after coffee hour is no mean feat if everyone has turned into blobs among fog and blur. Charlotte also missed out on a couple piquant "Hospitality Committee is pastoral care plus knives and hot liquids" moments RantWoman still thinks about when thinking about gifts, challenges, accessibility.  But perhaps it is enough for now to remember Charlotte and to save further Dial-a-Tirade reflections for a different moment.

A very COVID Christmas with Four Snow Globes and a Vaccine campaign.

This post brought to you in celebration of RantWoman's hitherto underappreciated ability to see 4 snow globes when there are only two snow globes present.  Yeah Strabismus, double vision without even having to drink alcohol!

Snow Globes:
the visual meme
 of the year

RantWoman's snow globes have now gone to zoom Meeting for Worship twice. There was only silence both times. Friends found the image of lighted glitter swirling around miniature Christmas trees centering. RantWoman is grateful. The first case due to phone connections, there was no visual only the image evoked by RantWoman's words. 

In the second case, RantWoman did not get her act together in time really to go use the computer, but RantWoman quickly lost patience about making any visual sense of things on her phone. So RantWoman turned on the video, carefully positioned the snow globes so that both she and anyone seeing RantWoman's video could watch the snow globes.

    And it would not be a week without mention of COVID COVID #COVID!

First a big shout of gratitude for people RantWoman knows who are in line to get the vaccine.

Next a snapshot of matters of faith and the Corona Virus vaccine. RantWoman doubts she has very many readers at all for whom this article will resonate. However, RantWoman is heeding a call to deliver it regardless.

Our Faith: Why Christians should take the CoronaVirus vaccine

Third, RantWoman has three friends, all in different states currently recovering from COVID. Two are close to RantWoman's age; one is much younger. One friend., Amazing Artist Friend, was already on the mend when she called RantWoman. RantWoman is relieved. RantWoman is also intrigued that Amazing Artist friend can work from home. Amazing Artist friend was expressing concern: she signed up for a double shift on Christmas day but was worried about stamina for the long shift. She also still has the COVID cough. Ummm....!

The second friend is HIV positive and has been positive for a long time. The good news which RantWoman should probably read up instead of relying on one anecdote: people who have no immune system somehow skip the second immune system goes crazy phase of COVID so this friend is on the brink of recovery. 

Now the third friend who, RantWoman is relieved to note, came to the blind prayer warriors call today. This person got sick but was very afraid of going to the hospital because besides being at high risk for COVID, she is also at extremely high risk for medical practitioners' #ableism! Maybe it was COVID brain fog causing her to alternate between "It's AWFUL. Don't get sick!" and "well, it's like the flu." Maybe God just has a weird sense of humor. 

Speaking of weird divine sense of humor, RantWoman's HIV positive friend needed to dish dirt on two nice Catholic guys we both know. They are still married to each other and very happy being Catholic so they do not consider themselves gay anymore. Go figure. Or maybe not. 

In the meantime, wash hands. Wear masks.

In Light and Faithfulness

RantWoman 

PS: the world may be trying to tell RantWoman to slow down and chill out. This yea'r Christmas presents included a long fuzzy hooded purpl bathrobe, a lavender and flax seed pillow, lavender body wash and epsom salts. No way would RantWoman have thought to buy the latter presents for herself so RantWoman is going to have to practice enjoying them!

Quaker Binge Watch: Quaker Speak: Liberation Theology, Privilege, Challenging Stereotype

Binge Watching is a thing. RantWoman caught on to the concept long after it first took root in the US lexicon.  Readers who need to binge-watch, I recommend the Quaker Speak videos. Here are three that speak to RantWoman's condition.

Honestly, Quakers are all over the map theologically. RantWoman hopes this video will speak to people with a wide range of perspectives.

 

It makes RantWoman SO happy to hear a young presumably privileged white man say this!

This video just makes RantWoman smile. What does it say to you?

The latest on the Rapid Ride J Line

 RantWoman is posting this item from her email mainly for archival purposes. Chances are pretty good based on RantWoman's lack of web design finesse that content may be invisible on the right hand side of the text. The screen reader works fine. So do relevant links. And if that fails, RantWoman hopes that grabbing terminology will yield useful search terms.

Learn more about the shortened RapidRide J Line route

Thank you to everyone who joined us December 9, 2020 to learn more about the shortened RapidRide J Line route! In case you missed it, you can explore the modified route, which will end near the future U District Link light rail station by:  Watching the full recording of the webinar.  Reviewing the presentation slides directly.  Browsing the frequently asked questions about the shortened route.  In 2021, we'll start developing the Supplemental Environmental Assessment to analyze any new impacts from the shortened route, north of the University Bridge. In the meantime, feel free to email us questions and comments at rapidride@seattle.gov.

If you need this information translated, please leave a voicemail in your preferred language at (206) 256-5563 and a project member will call back with an interpreter. 如果您需要此信息的翻譯版本，請致電(206)256-5563並用您的語言留下語音信息。我們的項目經理會在口譯員的幫助下回复您的電話。 Si necesita que se le traduzca esta información, llame al (206) 256-5563 y deje un mensaje de voz en su idioma preferido, y un miembro del proyecto le devolverá la llamada con un intérprete. 이 내용의 번역을 원하시면, 편하신 언어로 (206) 256-5563 에 음성사서함을 남겨주십시오. 프로젝트 멤버가 통역사와 함께 귀하에게 전화드릴 것입니다. اذا احتجت الى ترجمة هذه المعلومات ، الرجاء ترك رسالة على البريد الصوتي بلغتك المفضلة على الرقم ( 2062565563 ) و احد اعضاء المشروع سوف يتصل بك مع مترجم.

Modified Route in U District

Explore the shortened route at www.seattle.gov/Transportation/RapidRideRoosevelt.

Supplemental Environmental Assessment: Analyzing Any New Impacts

In early 2020, we released the Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Analysis for the RapidRide Roosevelt (J Line) project. The document provides a comprehensive analysis of the project, including proposed improvements, technical details, potential impacts, and mitigation strategies.    Before we advance into final design, the project is required to submit a Supplemental Environmental Assessment to the Federal Transit Administration to analyze any new impacts from the shortened route, north of the University Bridge. The Supplemental Environmental Assessment will include a formal public comment period in 2021 for the shortened route. The Federal Transit Administration will then make an environmental determination based on both the original Environmental Assessment and the Supplemental Environmental Assessment. With this additional step, construction for the project could start as soon as 2023.

Want to Stay Informed? For more information about the project and to sign up for email updates, please visit the RapidRide Roosevelt Project (RapidRide J Line) website at www.seattle.gov/Transportation/RapidRideRoosevelt.

Other projects in the area North Link Connections Mobility Project | Route 44 – Transit-Plus Multimodal Corridor | 12th Ave NE and NE 43rd St Paving Project | NE 43rd Street Improvements  | Eastlake Avenue Protected Bike Lanes

Abundance, disability wise

 RantWoman's psyche tonight is a little like a room after all the Christmas presents have been unwrapped. Perishable items have been stowed or tended to. Snacks may remain but for instance the giant jar of (very tasty) mixed nuts have been stowed out of sight to tempt / nourish one another day. Wrapping has mostly been gathered and folded. Some of the bigger presents have yet to be carried to their destined resting places. RantWoman has digressed to a bit of  "real food" and to a radio show about Antonin Dvorak and the music of BIPOC in the US and then come back to themes muddling around in the crinkled and reused wrapping paper. Consider the following news items

An especially piquant #pandemic related item about care of people with disabilities, Sarah McSweeney and others in OR

NPR report on PWD and COVID treatment in OR

From RantWoman's favorite transphobic anti-abortion newspaper columnist

SueLani Madsen Christmas column

Warning to readers in love with the word "linear:"  RantWoman means to pose several questions and then to say "Discuss." How will we be led?

Further warnings to readers considering whether to scream that transphobic newspaper columnists cause harm by even existing: 

--RantWoman trusts but does not automatically entirely believe this author's perspectives on matters of agricultural economy in eastern WA

--RantWoman believes that of God frequently comes in difficult packages.

--RantWoman listens carefully for small increments of "wokeness" about the topic. RantWoman does not feel led or able to engage about every point she finds objectionable Sometimes RantWoman considers it more on point just not to engage than to get sucked into the hungry vortex of internet flame fests.

Now, back to the main point:

Around UFM, RantWoman has heard people use some of the following terms to encompass at least good intentions toward people with disabilities: accessibility, allyship, solidarity, spiritual accompaniment. Please discuss what in practice what these terns might mean for people with different leadings and gifts in a faith community. bonus points for anyone willing to consider which committees one might hope could tend to these different forms of presence.

Are there other words one might apply to any of the figures in these articles?

And for Disability Studies terminology geeks familiar with the concepts of "medical model" and "social model" please discuss how these concepts apply to either of these stories.

Angels from the Realms of Glory

RantWoman does not remember what called to her about this rendition. Nevertheless, enjoy

Silent Night in Spanish Noche De Paz, Juana, Villancico Animado - Vídeo Oficial

Early Quakers did not observe Christmas because they thought every day should be holy.

Every day can be holy, but who says every day has to be the same.

Enjoy Silent Night in Spanish.

No the video is neither captioned nor audio described, and RantWoman cannot decide whether a very young RantWoman would find the pictures visually relateable or not. But in the world of #AccessibleAdvent, RantWoman would definitely listen to the music and the words.

Watched so readers don't have to: The Fight for the Soul of Seattle | A KOMO News Documentary

What if we just t-t-taxed the r-rich????

What's a RantWoman to do, post this here for #DefundThePolice Friends to chew on or post on RantWoman's blog where the phrase "What if we just tax the rich?" might be too incendiary.

This is a documentary about homelessness, addiction, mental illness. Police are tired of "Catch and Release." One judge got into trouble for sending someone to prison where there was no more help for drug addiction than there is outside prison but at least the person is not harming society.

This is the sort of dire documentary KOMO, now owned by Sinclair broadcasting, is famous for. RantWoman watched it as a public service. RantWoman also took advantage of blind person interest in YouTube's fairly new faster playback option in settings. Probably people would have sounded less breathless at 1x instead of 1.5x normal playback speed. But RantWoman would not have been able to tolerate elevated blood pressure and desire to throw things long enough to make it through the whole episode at normal speed.

What strikes RantWoman:

--There were several instances of multiple systemic failures. With the exception of one or two families, everyone was white.

--If someone experiencing mental health issues is denied services THREE times by the same mental health facility, why WOULDN'T tragedy result?

--There is NO Mention of fiscal and taxation realities in WA. To wit:

   --RantWoman would need a research assistant to provide precise information about how badly the social safety net has been hacked away in WA over the last several decades. 

   --WA has the most regressive tax structure in the country. At a certain point, if one is trying to get all of one's revenues from the bottom income categories, one might as well try to get blood from a turnip.  Services are not provided because there is no money to pay for them. What if certain journalists would cut back on the hand-wringing and maybe start trying to contribute insights about money matters?

There. Enough. Watch the video if you must.

In Light and Faithfulness.

RantWoman

NPYM Sharing Session on Earthcare Action

The announcement slightly cleaned up from the layers of forwarding that arrived in RantWoman's Inbox: 

The NPYM Peace and Social Concerns Committee invites you to a Sharing Session on Earthcare Action, hosted jointly with NPYM’s representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness. The goal of the session is to allow Friends throughout NPYM to share actions they are taking that grow from their spiritual concern for the Earth, whether those actions are individual or meeting-wide. Our goal is to support what you are already doing and spread good ideas for doing more, in the context of ongoing discernment around the minute on Earthcare* that has been proposed for yearly meeting adoption.

Text of proposed minute:

 * Proposed minute. We recognize that the Light pervades creation: shines not just in humans, but in all other beings, and the spaces around us all. We bear witness to  the continuing revelation coming through the living world. As we see our place in the web of relationships that make up creation, we release any sense of domination. We act to restore and maintain the relationships and  processes that allow life on Earth to thrive.   

The session will be January 12, 7 – 8:30 pm Pacific Time. Anyone in NPYM is welcome to join, but we will expect only one person per meeting to share. Please pass this announcement on to anyone who might be interested.

Please Register in Advance

RantWoman hopes someone she knows will be interested enough to participate and then chat it up with RantWoman.

As long as RantWoman is already in trouble for telling too much of the truth though, please hold in the Light further commentary.

RantWoman's first reaction: only one voice? Sure, one person should do the best they can and speak as led, but RantWoman can think of a lot of earthcare happening by Friends she knows in at least two publications. Then there is earthcare in teaching environmental science, supporting the survival of individual species and ecosystems, allocating time and resources to create livalbe communities, affordable housing, walkable carbon free transportation, greener transportation, a green economy as well as fighting environmental racism. RantWoman for her part weighs heavily in the transportation sphere with a steady intersectional inner dialogue on the themes of #DisabilityTooWhite and #DisabilityInChurch  Shouls RantWoman go on or may we resume waiting in silence upon God.

RantWoman's next reaction to this and certain other Quaker announcements sometimes amounts to "Oh gee, more Quakers talking to each other. Don't we have something glorious we are supposed to be sharing or applying beyond our circles?"  If RantWoman is allowed to get all Biblical about this, are we somehow hiding our Light under a bushel?  

RantWoman never thinks it is terrible when words like God and creator (or worship and prayer) enter into the drafting of minutes. RantWoman has certainly contributed to several minutes which lakc such references, but somehow when we are talking about stewardship of the whole planet and humans figuring out how to get along well enough to survive, seeking the grace of God is not a terrible idea. 

There. Now RantWoman will now shut up and hope she does not scare away anyone drawn to this sharing session, particularly if they need a listening elder afterward.

Yikes yet again, the crash of the month club

Yikes. It's the Crash of the Month, er Crash of the week club! 

RantWoman never quite knows what to do with the word "psychic." RantWoman thought several times of calling Curmudgeon to check on recovery progress. What happenstance made RantWoman call just a few minutes after Curmudgeon and WingNut heard the clunk and screeching tires of yet another crash, this time car vs car at the same corner as their experience of #TrafficViolence. Wing Nut had just gone outside to take pictures and see what happened. Curmudgeon's voice was very soft when she picked up the phone and timidly told RantWoman what had just happened.

The Christmas Lamp
for holding things in the Light 

All there was to say to both of them: I am so sorry you had to relive that again. Curmudgeon was noticeably calmer and better centered by the end of the call. Wing Nut texted later and said she is shell-shocked too. One of the women told RantWoman they had been talking to neighbors for awhile about one crash a month and the need to talk to the city. WingNut told RantWoman there was another crash on the Wednesday between theirs on Friday and the one tonight. That is more than one crash a week. 

RantWoman will save thoughts of centered advocacy for other venues. Right now, RantWoman is just saying prayers for two people hurting and all the help flowing their way in spite of the pandemic.

Yikes, the previous edition

Car vs. Ped for starters

Yikes, non-traffic related. 

RantWoman is including this article as data that might feed several conversations.

Article referring to Curmudgeon's roomie at the Hospital

Advent: Fourth Sunday Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss - The Wexford Carol (Video)

RantWoman has been taking her chances on the frontiers between search engines and content surfing. 

Enough said for now.

The Russian Band DDT says Goodbye to 2020 ДДТ — 2020

Yes, Of COURSE it's the fourth Sunday in Advent. And OF COURSE RantWoman will publish something topical. But RantWoman also needs to let the earworm of the week run loose.

RantWoman is working on what she considers a more idiomatic translation than the ones she has observed wandering out of the internet hive-mind. But in the meantime, this song is about good-bye and good riddance to 2020. RantWoman thinks there is pandemic reference. There is certainly reference to the wildfires and record high temperatures in the Siberian arctic.

There are also some moments RantWoman is finding it difficult both to comb meaning out of and to capture as many strands of meaning as possible in English. But in the meantime, RantWoman finds the music cheering.

Memo to self: also see what can be found about anti-logging protests in Bashkiria

Remembering Ruth among other things

 

From the world of free clip art

This holiday season life on Planet RantWoman has been all about time travel: the cold and dry of Colorado winters, paper chains, very tall Christmas trees to fill the bay window, paper chains, nothing breakable at floor level to protect the tree from both cat and children. In the Montana years, besides all manner of music and special schedules,  the musical arrangements RantDad made every year for great unmanageable musical ensembles involving all his music students and his children. There was the year RantWoman and Ferrener Husband went to Russia, Irrepressible Nephew's first Christmas and many Christmases besides.

This year, RantWoman has been especially charmed by Spanish language children's carols. So look for several, possibly with irreverent cmmentary: "The Little Drummer Boy? What if a kid banging on drums is the LAST thing a woman just getting used to motherhood wants to hear, never mind the foreshadowing of toddlerhood and the toys (intentionally) misguided aunties sometimes give children

Even though Quaker Honorary Auntie had not spent holidays with the Rant Family for many years before she died, RantWoman has especially been thinking of her this year. 

Remembering Quaker Honorary Auntie

Memorial Minute with Annotations

RantWoman has also been thinking with deep gratitude of all the people who helped take care of  Quaker Honorary Auntie for almost two decades between when she first had her aneurysms and when she died. RantWoman also feels continual gratitude for all the circumstances that lined up as far as RantMom's life in a retirement community. RantWoman is very frank: RantWoman feels very relieved about many things, and this in spite of the interaction between COVID Public Health rules and Retirement community rules.

RantWoman has been trying to radiate all the love flwoing from Quaker Honorary Auntie back out into the universe.

That is not going so well.

Is the RantFamily the only family on the planet that has to drag out a bunch of half moth-eaten family arguments along with the tinsel and Christmas decorations?

More free holly clip art

The short version:

--Blame the summer wildfires around the globe, the pandemic, the onset and now overdue exit of the Trump Administration, and various other stampeding herds of Change. RantWoman knows perfectly well she gets to COUNT HER BLESSINGS multiple times per day, but blame the pandemic etc. anyway.

--Somewhere in all of these meditations, RantWoman looked up dates for some old emails and various blog posts and other moments from 2017, the year Quaker Honorary Auntie died. 

Memories of Great Business Meeting past

Was RantWoman in 2017 just not handling grief as well as she thought she was?

Earth to RantWoman: Quaker Honorary Auntie died in May; you learned about it in July. You can play the overwhelming and underarticulated grief card from then until December, but not before that.

Oh Good. The perfect reason to rant about something else, the onset of the Trump administration! RantWoman is going to save some meditations for transfer of power parallelism for another whole post, but RantWoman is going to express aggravation about one thing: getting blown off when calling an event organizer for a post inauguration community recentering event about use of microphones. RantWoman had asked about something else and then the phone got hung up before RantWoman could even ask about amplification issues. 

This was not the first or the last event, the organizing efforts of multiple Friends, where RantWoman has been vexed about amplification issues. 

Nor is it either the first or the last time RantWoman has been irritated with one specific Friend.

There. Now RantWoman has gotten one round of festive holiday mental clutter out of her system. There is more to say, but perhaps if we all work on enjoying... in spite of... things can work themselves out. Either that or RantWoman will summon Sinter Klaus for a belated visitation.

In Light and Faithfulness

RantWoman

Yikes?

 RantWoman has two friends close to her age, Wing Nut and Curmudgeon. Wing Nut and Curmudgeon long ago qui the blogosphere and fled to Facebookistan, but they get to have noms de blog for this post. 

This has been, um, a WEEK for the two of them. Friday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Well, they were darned lucky it was not worse, but there was definitely bad physics involved. Wing Nut, Curmudgeon and their wonderful German shepherd Calla were returning home from a walk, crossing a street with the light. No thanks to a hit-and-run SUV driver Wing Nut is alive and well and "only" dealing with flashbacks, getting a neighbor to help her bury the dog, and ...  

The scene of the Hit and Run crime

There apparently were many witnesses and witnesses willing to give statements to the police.

Curmudgeon got scooped up into an ambulance, but the ambulance just drove highway speeds until the freeway exit where the driver turned on the lights and siren.

Tonight Curmudgeon is alive and turning all sorts of colors, missing a few teeth, needing to work on breathing with one of those make the ball float devices. Curmudgeon is learning to get around with a walker because she is not supposed to put any weigh on a leg with a bunch of new plates and screws involved for several weeks. Curmudgeon is also having to inject herself with an anticoagulant twice a day. Curmudgeon HATES needles but dealing with injections is one of the reasons CURMUDGEON CAME HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL TONIGHT!

Wait. Back up a couple nights, the day after Curmudgeon had surgery to put her tibia back together. RantWoman called Curmudgeon in the hospital and had a fine conversation, not counting background noise. Curmudgeon said on the phone that she had a new roommate. As soon as RantWoman hung up from the conversation, Curmudgeon texted RantWoman: the reason roommate was in the hospital made RantWoman suck in her breath, mutter "Oh EHLL NO," and text back YIKES!

Yikes! Was RantWoman just being a typical hyperventilating clueless white person? White person, check. Hyperventilating? Probably a little. Clueless? not entirely or maybe too many clues? How about worried about Curmudgeon having to overhear details, discussion of possible bad decisions and cycles of violence. RantWoman would definitely not want to be overhearing such things while trying to focus on her own healing! One problem with unsolicited details: then one has to decide what to do with the details RantWoman elicited by text. 

At a certain point, RantWoman just lost it and included Wing Nut in the text conversation. By this time Curmudgeon had time not only to overhear things on would probably prefer not to know but also to have some conversation with roommate. Roommate sounds like she needs help, help to stay away from bad decisions and to work on some hopes and dreams. At least that is the most optimistic interpretation of Roommate's spin. After the text exchange Curmudgeon decided things would probably be okay. Roommate has not come up further n conversation.. Curmudgeon is now home safe with kitties and non-slip socks for the wood floor in her house. 

RantWoman for her part is still in the middle of a nice "Oh Hell No" fit bout about the miscreant SUV driver and about Curmudgeon's roommate. Please hold in the Light.

Reopening the Meetinghouse Blindness Tourism edition

RantWoman is again heeding the call to deliver unsolicited moments of accessibility themed technical assistance / sojourns to Planet RantWoman

Reprinted from the newsletter [with annotations in square brackets]

GLEAMINGS DECEMBER 2020

3 Reopening the Meetinghouse Report from CORM (the Committee on Reopening the Meetinghouse)

[Short version: it ain't gonna happen until the numbers are better under control so why the heck do you need to ramble about accessibility now?]

Reconfigured Worship Room Chairs
bearing witness to pandemic resilience?

Worship Room reconfigured to offer well-spaced seating and paired chairs around the perimeter for individuals from the same household. 

Our committee continues to work on preparations for reopening the meetinghouse. We have made good progress and have also had some setbacks.

We are close to being ready to have one in-person worship service in the meetinghouse on a Sunday morning in the near future (we hope). We have nearly all necessary procedures in place; we will:

• Use a web-based reservation system to fairly limit the number of attenders to 25 and keep track of who attends, in case public health authorities need this information.

Those interested in attending in-person worship will have to go to the UFM website and make a reservation, including giving contact information and accepting the “fine print” conditions.[Here would be an excellent place to request accommodations to participate in in-person worship]

• Meet in the worship room, with chairs spaced appropriately and the room’s excellent ventilation system keeping the air clean.

• Increase ventilation through the hallway and bathroom while we are there.

• Sanitize the spaces we use before we meet and provide disposable face masks and hand sanitizer.

• Have teams of two greeters and closers with an expanded job description that includes helping attenders follow the necessary guidelines.

• Install signage to help guide attenders while inside the building.

• Direct movement through the hallway to the worship room and bathroom in a manner that minimizes close social [you mena physica?] contact.

To ensure that we reopen safely, we are limiting our first use of the building to one in-person meeting for worship with no extras. No more than 25 people will be able to attend, and there will be no children’s program; no access to the library, social hall or downstairs; and no coffee service before or after the meeting. Attenders will be required to wear masks at all times on the premises and to avoid lingering in the courtyard or hallway before or after meeting.

We are optimistic that, once we have held a few “bare-bones” meetings for worship, we will be able to safely open other parts of the building for other activities. How quickly we can expand our use of the building will depend, to a significant extent, on the caution and compliance of those who attend during the trial phase.

Sadly, although we are about ready to have an in-person meeting for worship, the current alarming spike in Covid cases has sent the message that we should wait. We are monitoring the data closely, and as soon as we see the numbers coming back down, we will schedule a meeting. Once we are able to set a date, we will announce it in the bulletin, through the UFM google group listserv, and on the web site.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Nora Percival (norajpercival@yahoo.com), clerk of CORM. Until we meet again, we hope you stay safe, sane and thankful for what we have during this holiday season.

RantWoman blindness tourism comments:

1. Software accessibility for signup software? Did anyone think about software accessibility? Please excuse RantWoman for harping about the topic. It's just that, even after the great "I hope it's accessible Moment with Signup Genius, Friend who added the Zoom question to a recent survey did not think to add anything about software accessibility. Zoom software accessibility is very good but not all accessibility issues are solved. For instance screen share is completely inaccessible to screen reader users. But RantWoman digresses. 

    In this case RantWoman did get asked to preview the preferred software. The first time RantWoman tried it on her phone, results were weird and unsatisfactory. When that happens, RantWoman usually comes back another day to allow for the possibility that problems are in RantWoman's head.In this case, RantWoman did not come back before the tool was selected. But, RantWoman was relieved when looking up the software on a desktop machine, she discovered not only that it seemed to work fine, but also that it has been vetted by a number of large corporations, at least a couple of which have probably tested it well for accessibility. A good sign especially since the website had none of the accessibility checks RantWoman has previously suggested as simple options for people who know nothing about accessibility.

2. What if there are more than two people from a household? What if no one wants to sit next to the wall because... mold or light streaming in inconveniently or...?

3. The physical layout looks like a nightmare for someone trying to navigate with a white cane and for well-meaning sighted people trying to do sighted guide. RantWoman is glad to be able to commiserate with other blind people about sighted people who cannot tell their right from their left, a problem for anyone trying to offer verbal guidance. In this case, instead of nice rows to follow, navigating among these appropriately  spaced chairs could be kind of difficult, so difficult that RantWoman, because she is familiar with the room might confuse everyone by just trying to find a wall to follow instead.

    Ahh, but blind people are probably all high-risk and should just stay home? Um, NOOO! And it is hard to do sighted guide and stay socially distanced? RantWoman can usually just follow. Other blind people might need a guide's elbow or shoulder, but it's winter. Everyone is wearing multiple layers of clothing and of course masks. As long as no one is blowing streams of droplets in each other's faces, as long as people keep any contact as brief as possible it should be possible for a greeter to be safe helping a blind person find a seat

    

4. But what about wheelchair users? Ummm, RantWoman has offered enough unsolicited technical assistance for one night. Plus RantWoman would like to think that greeters MIGHT have enough awareness of disabilities etiquette to think of options on the fly if needed.

physical physical

ask and ye shall receive

Festive Noise: El Tamborilero, Villancico Animado - MundoCanticuentos

One of RantWoman's Also an Auntie but not a Parent friends confessed one time that she considered "noisy toys and fingerpaints" the ideal gifts for nieces and nephews.

Irrepressible Nephew had plenty of people in his life who gave him noisy toys. It's just that the noisy gifts were all batter-operated and his mother was mysteriously VERY adept at losing the batteries.

If RantWoman had been into noisy presents, RantWoman would not have messed around with anything battery-powered. The kid would have had a real drum and maybe a Little Drummer Boy tape too. As it was, RantWoman's preferred problematic gifts were...pomegranates. Now the pomegranates are a joke.

RantWoman is not sure whether the average mom of a newborn would be thrilled to receive a drum solo either, but RantWoman is so thoroughly charmed by this version of Little Drummer Boy that it is here for all to enjoy.

SHeep Shepherds. The baby Jesus Pastores Venid, Villancico Animado - MundoCanticuentos

RantWoman has been posting Advent musical offerings pretty much with blithe disregard for the texts customary for each First Day. Enjoy some sheep and shepherds for the third Sunday in Advent. The video pretty much follows the text. No, no audio description? who says, even for #AccessibleAdvent that accessibility is going to be perfect. See RantWoman is a great believer in "try again."

Quaker Speak: Do Quakers Celebrate Christmas

Yup. One of RantWoman's favorite things to do during the Advent season is to GO FIND SOME Christmas music! But enjoy the video first.

As an aside, someone recently asked RantWoman for some good blind-friendly resources for someone new to Friends. RantWoman checked the seeker's resources and technical expertise and easily recommended Quaker Speak--even though the videos are not audio-described and a totally blind, screen-reader dependent person will, because speakers do not always say their names and meetings, have no idea who is speaking. RantWoman is very glad to be able to see enough with magnification to see the names, but RantWoman thinks that is probably not true of the person who asked her. 

Thank you for bearing with this unsolicited moment of blindness tourism about otherwise wonderful videos.

Advent, the second sunday

 RantWoman is fitfully assembling meditations appropriate to Advent.

So, it's already the second Sunday? So?

First, some suggested readings from Ashley Wilcox, author of The Women's Lectionary. These readings at least go on the Mean to Read list; RantWoman gets to be grateful for all the reading options accessible to her on her smartphone with many accessibility features built in. The mean to read list, though, is still different from the actually get read list.

 Ashley M. Wilcox (@ashleymwilcox) tweeted at 6:50 AM on Wed, Nov 27, 2019:

Are you looking for Advent readings that center women's stories? Here you

go!

First Sunday of Advent

Genesis 38:1-30 (Tamar)

Luke 1:26-38 (Call of Mary)

Second Sunday of Advent

Joshua 2:1-24 (Rahab)

Luke 1:39-45 (Mary Visits Elizabeth)

Ashley M. Wilcox (@ashleymwilcox) tweeted at 6:50 AM on Wed, Nov 27, 2019:

Third Sunday of Advent

Ruth 3:1-18, 4:13-17 (Ruth)

Luke 1:46-55 (Magnificat)

Fourth Sunday of Advent

2 Samuel 11:1-15 (Bathsheba)

Luke 1:57-66 (Elizabeth Gives Birth)

Ashley M. Wilcox (@ashleymwilcox) tweeted at 6:50 AM on Wed, Nov 27, 2019:

The readings from the Hebrew Scriptures are of the four women in Jesus'

genealogy before Mary in Matthew 1:1-17.

There. 

Now

Johan Maurer writes Happy Advent

Johan Maurer's posts frequently contain so many topics of interest to RantWoman that it is probably not fair to casual readers of this blog just to dump the link here. Who says RantWoman is very good at fair? Warning: readers may find the many items linked here challenging for many reasons

Next confession: Although the Quaker Bible Study forays through the gospel of Mark are doing quite a bit to clear cobwebs out of RantWoman's soul and to show her paths to..., RantWoman is still pretty close to losing it a lot of the time. Take one more volunteer recognition certificate whined about in another post, and an ENORMOUS pile of paper both seasonal mail order catalogs and fundraisng solicitations. Please take them. RantWoman recently journeyed to her far off mailbox. There waiting for her RantWoman found about 5 pounts of paper, of which most just stayed put along with grumblings about "why do these organizations keep sending me paper? Paper is hard to deal with! Then RantWoman opened an envelope from FCNL. See below. The words help as does the fact that they are big enough for RantWoman to read!

In the mail from FCNL
"Speak Truth, act from hope, show love
together we can work for the world we imagine"
Diane Randall, FCNL

You're welcome, times 2.

You're welcome part 1

RantWoman supposes this blog post

RIP Service Python Friend

Pink and white
tissue paper flower

could be interpreted as a suggestion, perhaps one of several circumstances which led to the following announcement

If is difficult when someone attending UFM is the only member of their family to do so, and they

have an emergency or illness. They are no longer attending, may not be reachable by phone or

email, and the UFM community doesn’t know what happened. Their family doesn’t necessarily

know that the person has a connection with the meeting or how to get information about their

situation to the meeting. If you are the only member of your family attending University Friends

Meeting, and the meeting is important to you, please let your family members know this. Ask

them to call or email the office (206-547-6449, UFMeeting@gmail.com) if you have a severe

illness or emergency so that the meeting can find out how to support you.

If is difficult when someone attending UFM is the only member of their family to do so, and they

have an emergency or illness. They are no longer attending, may not be reachable by phone or

email, and the UFM community doesn’t know what happened. Their family doesn’t necessarily

know that the person has a connection with the meeting or how to get information about their

situation to the meeting. If you are the only member of your family attending University Friends

Meeting, and the meeting is important to you, please let your family members know this. Ask

them to call or email the office (206-547-6449, UFMeeting@gmail.com) if you have a severe

illness or emergency so that the meeting can find out how to support you.

If (sic) is difficult when someone attending UFM is the only member of their family to do so, and they have an emergency or illness. They are no longer attending, may not be reachable by phone or email, and the UFM community doesn’t know what happened. Their family doesn’t necessarily know that the person has a connection with the meeting or how to get information about their situation to the meeting. 

If you are the only member of your family attending University Friends Meeting, and the meeting is important to you, please let your family members know this. Ask them to call or email the office (206-547-6449, UFMeeting@gmail.com) if you have a severe illness or emergency so that the meeting can find out how to support you.

If so, you're welcome. 

You're Welcome part 2

RantWoman keeps the @SeattlePD twitter handle in her Twitter notifications for a few different reasons. RantWoman often likes the option of avoiding travel near bad accidents. RantWoman spends a certain amount of time sampling the, cough, public opinion in replies about many topics. There are of course other ways to pay attention to ongoing protests about police accountability issues but RantWoman feels no obligation to further explain her approach about monitoring the info put out by the police department.

 

Mural and barely legible graffitti

  

Recently RantWoman intersected with the following tweet.

Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) tweeted at 6:31 PM on Fri, Nov 27, 2020:

More graffiti at NE 41st and University Wy NE. https://t.co/ys492xltkM

(https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/1332512446599204864?s=03) 

The march that generated this graffitti was travelling through the University District near Meeting. RantWoman tries to keepthe issue of graffitti in perspective. At the same time, RantWoman is finding it difficult to extract very much of a message from the trail of graffitti left around the city by these marches. In this case RantWoman was alarmed by the location of the graffitti a few minutes walk from Meeting. RantWoman spent a few minutes considering whether just to call the Meeting caretaker and alert him to protesters headed his way. While RantWoman deliberated, another tweet appeared indicating that the march headed off in a different direction. 

RantWoman continues to find herself unable just to shut off a number of concerns. RantWoman is glad this march proceeded in another direction, so you all are welcome for the concern. In Light and faithfulness.

Electronic subscriptions to Western Friend Dang It! (Electronic library topics when someone picks up

 RantWoman apologizes in advance. It's not just that pandemic brain is making RantWoman a little scatter-brained and definitely more charm-challenged than average. It's also that RantWoman cannot decide whether the presence likely to show up along with all the seasonal angst, consternation, and ambivalence, will be SinterKlas (Wikipedia for the complexity of the reference) Santa Claus, probably clattering out of the chimney in some TV-land cloud of soot or some seasonal Baby Jesus.

This post is also getting long. RantWoman will try to emphasize some clear points where immediate action could be helpful, frame some points for community, and to name some questions that can't be solved immediately by anyone.

An immediate action point: RantWoman has been reading three meetings's materials. All of them include invitations to sign up for subscriptions to Western Friend in a Meeting-based group for a discount. Yeah discounts! The only problem: NONE of the announcements mention that Western Friend is available both in paper and online. RantWoman is pretty sure she is not the only person interested in reading Western Friend electronically. RantWoman of course does this out of necessity and is lucky enough to have various pieces of technology that make this very easy for her. But other people also for many reasons opt to read online and RantWoman encourages everyone organizing discount groups to tell readers they have the option of electronic versions.

RantWoman could of course email Mary Klein and ask her to pass along the announcement with any additional details that might be helpful. Mary is wonderfully responsive so RantWoman is not particularly worried about how this suggestion might be received. 

RantWoman is writing in her blog specifically to elder two stream of voices, each coming from multiple people. One voice:  "Oh look what we have done; you're not indispensable.." (Okay Friend, to jump up and down AGAIN on a theme RantWoman has touched many times, are you sure what you have done is something RantWoman will find helpful? Plus RantWoman is TOO happy to share burdens, so be honest, has ANYONE else taken initiative to ask you about ... accessibility issue in your life?)" 

The other voices, also coming from many directions "Oh, that's SO UNFAIR of you to point out things we have overlooked." (Look Friend, have you considered that MAYBE you are overloaded and that there might be others who can carry pieces of this work? Like RantWoman has only been TRYING to offer help for YEARS and her offers keep getting declined. Besides, how about continuing revelation? How about the evolution of technology? How about creating opportunities for EVERYONE to learn?  Is RantWoman getting repetitive AGAIN?

How about just start with some acknowledgments. Over the summer one such moment occurred. RantWoman looked at one name on a list, took a deep breath, and released the thought bubble "OK, God, What am I supposed to do with this?" Something was well held in the space, acknowledgments on two sides of a situation, Also, RantWoman, after blurting out strong opinions one issue, went home with a prayer "OK God, PLEASE do not let RantWoman's comments scare away another..."

But Back to accessible documents and the immediate step of continuing to encourage a positive effort. RantWoman wants to say a big loud "Oh SNAP" to one newsletter editor for doing a wonderful job, at least once, of putting headings on all the articles and both captions and alt text on the photos.  And RantWoman for her part POSSIBLY underestimated the capacity of previous newsletter editors to learn what what is needed. RantWoman definitely though did not overestimate her capacity  to help previous editors sort through the various technological issues needed to do this. RantWoman is HUMBLY grateful for a young Friend who has taken up the task with care and to RantWoman's ear enthusiasm.  

The topic of accessible documents is only one of MANY topics not covered by a previous review of accessibility matters by the former Oversight  now Care and Counsel committee. RantWoman is also grateful that many technological realities have evolved that RantWoman can access content on her own without having to bother anyone else. On the other hand, glass half empty note: RantWoman still collides with a welter of technology and intellectual property issues every time she decides to join a book  group. RantWoman has not exactly pounded into her fellow book group participants all the challenges and RantWoman would not say anyone thought to ask.  

Kindle / ebooks are not as easy to pass around as books on paper. Not everything published will be recorded and distributed by the National Library of the Blind and Physically Handicapped. And ebooks from the regular public library are, RantWoman thinks, intentionally in accessible to screen readers. RantWoman is either going to be glad she has funds to buy the Kindle edition or  going to get her own crack at Ebook accessibility for an upcoming book group, but... Probably there is little here that is immediately solvable by anyone. In fact, if people's heads are spinning with a bunch of unfamiliar terminology that has to be fine--for now but a sense of spiritual accompaniment, willingness to wade in at least a little, and maybe tolerance for blindness tourism about the topic would mean a lot.

RantWoman also did not manage to bring up accessibility of reading materials and issues about accessibility specifically of Quaker materials before the Clearness Committee for helping RantWoman adjust to blindness decided they where done and RantWoman decided the members of the Clearness committee were either not available or otherwise overcommitted. Nor did the Care and Accountability Committee for a person with a disability that couldn't talk about disability manage to engage. RantWoman does not see well, but the one time a related topic came up, RantWoman detected only glassy stares of incomprehension. RantWoman's excessively Plain English to Quakerese malfunctioned in the direction of total silence which is probably just as well: the thought that was going to come out was something along the lines of "Look, you don't necessarily HAVE to understand all this stuff, but maybe could you just step back and let others who RantWoman perfectly well KNOWS do understand do what is needed.  

This is probably more than enough for one post. As long as we are celebrating the evolution of electronic accessibility--in both Western Friend and in Friends' Journal 

Two articles that especially speak to RantWoman

Radical Vulnerability

and for people thinking about how our Meetings look to newcomers, 

Worship by Approximation