One more time with gusto: visual self-description--and all the other stuff to talk about.

#DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth

First read the only article RantWoman has seen so far about what--besides clothing--was discussed during VP Harris participation in the recent #ADA32 anniversary celebration.

Sarah Luterman piece in The 19th

Note ALL the specific issues mentioned. There may be a quiz 

The voice of another person with a disability.

CNN Interviews Lydia X Z Brown

For the record, RantWoman is generally pro visual self-description. RantWoman appreciates the social value of both being able to exclaim over other's people and being able to highlight some part of one's demeanor that stands out for the day. RantWoman also often appreciates knowing others' ethnicity partly as clues for decoding different accents. Don't overdo it unless the venue is a very arty situation, a costume contest or something similar. Keep it brief. 

But back to VP Harris.

From Sara Luternan's piece

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois tweeted, “If you ever wonder why the left can’t win elections despite the insanity of Trumpism, save stuff like this for reference later.” 

This quote was followed by quotes from other insurrectionistas including Ted Cruz and Lauren Boebert, usual suspects for vileness from the #GOP.

RantWoman's first reaction: Shame on you Rep. Kinzinger.  Throughout the #January6Hearings, RantWoman has been listening carefully to Reps. Kinzinger and Cheney as they try to offer their party paths out of the Trumpism very bad relationship vibe. RantWoman though wonders why Rep Kinzinger has to join the yowlers in his party with a gratuitous comment about democratic strategy as well as open display of ignorance!

Rep. Kinzinger does not leap to mind for RantWoman as a go-to guy for questions about Democratic strategy. RantWoman has plenty of opinions about why Democrats keep losing; RantWoman is pretty sure the problem is not pronouns and willingness to insist on accommodations and inclusion. 

Maybe Rep. Kinzinger can at least open his mind and learn something. Maybe. PLEASE

RantWoman's first

Navajo code talker Samuel Sandoval dies; 3 others still alive

At the 2022 Annual Session NPYM approved this Minute in support of indigenous people

Now what?

RantWoman is not going to work too hard to decide where the following memorial fits within the minute. RantWoman just knows it matters to understand the story of the Navajo code talkers. One small record

Albuquerque Journal notes passing of Samuel Sandoval 

Call RantWoman a leader and....

#DisabilityPrideMonth

 This Blind Leadership thing is off to a good start:

"Is there a dress code for the week?"

"Most of the week is business casual but (for one event) please dress like you are going to church. No beachwear!"

Um, 

1. In the age of #DEI / #DEIA (Diversity equity and Inclusion / Diversity Equity Inclusion and Accessibility" maybe you should not assume a. that everyone participates in any kind of faith community and b. that whatever faith community someone may participate in, it might or might not be called church."

2. "No beach wear?" Have you SEEN what some people wear on Sunday morning, not even to mention wells of spiritual nurture such as "beer and hymns" or NPYM Annual Session?

3. There's that bit in the lovely pre-event materials which RantWoman has had the luxury of reformatting into her preferred flavors of large print about "challenge the process," but just how much of the thoughts above really must make it out of RantWoman's mouth?

RantWoman is not called to parade around in her beachwear and in fact is glad to have a reason to wear some of RantMom's tonier birthday presents. RantWoman could stand to upgrade some haberdashery: a certain red Stetson has to stay home and RantWoman has yet to hit the perfect African American Church lady chapeau. But clothing isn't the half of it. 

"..fun facts..?"

"fun facts suitable for this audience"

"...good trouble..."

"You absolutely have my permission to give them my name..."

What? You mean people are not born knowing how to think about accessibility?

NO, RantWoman, they are NOT and you do not get to beat up on them for not knowing when you need to find GENTLE paths...

Leadership lessons from (fomenting civil disorder)?

RantWoman seriously feels responsibility both to blind/ vision impaired kids growing up and all the elders aging into blindness to take the whole exercise seriously.

And RantWoman needs to digress if only to keep from drowning in seriousness:

There must have been someone famous in the very late 1800's / very early 1900's named Malvina. There was a a woman named Malvina (pronounced Mal VINE a) at the Baptist Church of RantWoman's youth. And then there is Malvina Reynolds who gets several links here just to give RantWoman another meditation about how much to say where.

Malvina Reynolds It isn't nice

Malvina Reynolds I don't mind failing

Malvina Reynolds Wikipedia

Happy Birthday Haben Girma

For today's #DisabilityPrideMonth entry, readers who don't know who Haben Girma is are invited to use the search engine of their choice. 

Fun Fact RantWoman is exactly 27 years and 2 weeks older than Haben Girma

That is all

Happy Birthday Liz "Freedom is for Everyone" Cheney

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Rep. Liz Cheney R WY.

RantWoman's email inbox is overflowing with invitations to wish Rep. Cheney a happy birthday--by contributing to MoveOn.com. RantWoman is going to deliver birthday wishes differently, first with videos of politicians who CHANGED THEIR MINDS about Gay Marriage, a politician who voted one way and went the other way to a gay son's wedding. 

There's also that part before the gay marriage comments about massive displays of courage and integrity co-chairing the House January 6 commission.

Anyway, below the videos, RantWoman offers some piquant comments about politics. RantWoman thinks that will move conversation further than a contribution on this occasion to MoveOn. 

Charlemagne the God on Liz Cheney

RantWoman is taking note of language Reps Cheney and Kinzinger use about for instance election deniers weaponizing TFG supporters' love of country or abusing TFG's base. RantWoman finds this language interesting. RantWoman also notes that people many times take a long time to leave bad relationship.

RantWoman has no more power to help Liz Cheney in her primary than she does to help WA Republican representatives Dan Newhouse and Jaime Herrera Beutler who both voted to impeach TFG.  Still RantWoman is rooting for her.

Next, RantWoman wants Democrats to just STOP IT about funding the most batshit Republican candidate in some primary races thinking an insane opponent will be easier to beat in November. Campaign FOR something all you want but for heaven's sakes DO NOT fund the monster. Democratic "genius" ideas are what brought the country four years of TFG regime. DO BETTER THAN THAT this time.

 

While we're on the subject of WY let's talk Electoral College. RantWoman is not unconcerned with the argument that the electoral college embodies institutional racism because it gives WY voters several hundred thousand times the impact of say CA voters. RantWoman would happily point out that a really good way to shake up campaign math would be for all states to do away with the winner take all rule. That SHOULD force parties to adjust their campaign strategies and would get everyone much closer to the electoral college tracking with the popular vote 

RantWoman is  familiar with similar proportionality arguments about the filibuster. RantWoman would not abolish the filibuster. RantWoman would however reduce the filibuster threshold to 55 in HOPES that would open a window where some brave Republicans might be willing to step forward and break the Republican gerontocracy's logjams.

RantWoman does not mean these birthday present comments necessarily as advice but more as nuding open doors to further conversation. 

Beyond that RantWoman was asked recently to speculate on Rep. Cheney's future if she loses her primary as seems likely: RantWoman thinks any number of top-notch universities would be lucky to have her on the faculty. RantWoman has no opinion about think tanks or corporate boards but would like to imagine another run either for Senate or for President.

But for now, HAPPY BIRTHDAY..

Courage to say OUCH and ...

Prompt for FCNL Witness Wednesday.

"Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences"

.~ David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

A quote offered in chat during the same worship.

Courage as action despite fear is a common view. Courage as participation despite unending vulnerabilities feels far more personal. And opens many more paths.

RantWoman's #DisabilityPrideMonth point: plenty of OUCHES. Will they take shape in black and white?

 

Happy #ADA32

 Happy 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Guess what! Five more days of #DisabilityPrideMonth.

STAY TUNED

Sometimes one just bears witness: Media about Pope Francis' visit to Canada and apology

 

TW: genocide, torture also catholic doctrine

We celebrate the feast of the grandparents ofJesus

Another stream of the whole mass

Full text of Pope Francis speech

RantWoman means to find Pope Francis' original Spanish. Even with English dubbed over the version RantWoman heard, RantWoman heard sincerity

CBC: Pope apologizes

Reuters: anguished Cree anthem

Prayer Service at Lac St Anne

Vatican news: preserve your history to protect your future

Pope's Apology isn't enough

RantWoman went in search of the items above because the passage below appeared via Facebook and a translation from French appeared in a Quaker email stream. RantWoman will leave to readers' own discernment and imagination to consider how many directions RantWoman might comment.

 "He may not be able to stand up anymore and the suffering has shaped his character but this speech by Pope Francis yesterday is just INCREDIBLE!" (Talike Gelle)

"You may have flaws, be anxious and even be angry, but remember that your life is the greatest endeavor in the world. Only you can keep it from failing. You are appreciated, admired and loved by so many Remember that to be happy is not to have a sky without storms, a road without accidents, a job without effort, a relationship without disappointments.

“To be happy means to find strength in forgiveness, hope in battles, security in fear, love in discord. It is not only to enjoy the smile, but also to reflect on the sadness. It's not just about celebrating success, it's about learning from failures. It's not just about feeling happy with applause, it's about being happy anonymously. To be happy is not an inevitability of fate, but an achievement for those who can travel within themselves.

“To be happy is to stop feeling like a victim and become the author of your own destiny. "It's walking through deserts, but being able to find an oasis deep in the soul. It's thanking God every morning for the miracle of life. To be happy is not to be afraid of your feelings and being able to talk about yourself. Have the courage to hear a "no" and find confidence in criticism, even when it's unjustified. It's kissing your children, cuddling your parents, spending poetic moments with your friends. , even when they hurt us.

“To be happy is to let live the creature that lives in each of us, free, joyful and simple. You have the maturity to be able to say: "I made mistakes". It's having the courage to say I'm sorry. It's having the sense to say "I need you". It's having the ability to say "I love you". May your life become a garden of opportunities for happiness...may it be a lover of joy in the spring and a lover of wisdom in the winter.

"And when you make a mistake, start over again. Because only then will you be in love with life. You will find that being happy is not having a perfect life. But using tears to irrigate tolerance. Use your defeats to train your patience.

“Use your mistakes with the serenity of a sculptor. Use pain to connect to pleasure. Use obstacles to open windows of intelligence. Never give up... Above all, never give up on the people who love you. Never give up on being happy, because life is an amazing show. ".

(POPE FRANCIS).

Disability Justice--and REALLY practical down to earth advocacy

RantWoman notes the existence of #DisabilityPrideMonth. In true Quaker fashion, there should be Disability Pride all the time but since the anniversary of the signing of  the Americans with Disabilities Act will soon be upon us, RantWoman is going to grab a few items seasoned with characteristically piquant RantWoman commentary.

RantWoman has not checked but thinks the enumeration in this video of Disability Justice principles is slightly different and in any case briefer than previous articles.

RantWoman imagines some readers will need to filter some of the rhetoric. RantWoman herself is somewhere in the camp of "where is the love?" The video also reports on really powerful initiatives in New York.

Here a weird disability culture note: the video opens with the speaker offering a physical description of herself. The speaker also makes the point that this is an access / inclusion gesture regardless of how a call participant may be connected. Among blind people this practice is highly controversial: some blind people like it fine as long as it is brief; some blind people really hate it. 

There was a resolution at "those other blind people's convention soundly condemning the practice. The author of the resolution is African American (as in father from Africa) and his wife is Japanese American but somehow the resolution got interpreted as opposition to the organization's #DEI / DEIA initiative. RantWoman is glad the resolution failed and somehow soothed in the thought that even without sacred Quaker process discussions can go in unpredictable directions. 

Finally a dollop of alphabet soup just to garnish this post: DEI / DEIA and SPICES + J??

Women's Compline and Trevor Noah remembers his gran

#Pandemic digression: at a time when some people actively discourage people from singing indoors even if masks, RantWoman applauds both the men's and women's compline choirs for ALWAYS masking up.

Perhaps partly because the understanding of women's equality is one of the key aspirations of Quakerism, RantWoman also takes note of whether and how gender equality is interrogated in other faith traditions.

RantWoman this is your inner editor. Just shut up and link to the Women's Compline at St Marks page and let readers learn for themselves what is cool.

PS: what if women chanted compline every other week?

For a Bonus, Trevor Noah on keeping his gran's legacy alive

Composting Ouches: "Out of Print" means ONLY available in print

 Is it possible that one of RantWoman's oopses is NOT to say OUCH as loudly and precisely as possible EVERY time an ouch has occurred?

Consider the very understated OUCH at the bottom of Call to Annual Session email. Yes indeedy, out of print means only available in print. RantWoman distinctly remembers her last experience with a clearness committee. That iteration of clearness committee decided they were done before RantWoman thought they were done. One Friend has now KINDLY acknowledged many shortcomings of one long ago, just goona say it, feeble and incomplete effort to think about disability. Another Friend from that committee keeps turning down RantWoman's offers of help and then exuding an "I'm too busy" vibe every time RantWoman wants to reach out to her. RantWoman cannot think of a better indication that that Friend really, really, really needs HELP.

Anyway, RantWoman remembers thinking during said clearness committee about but not articulating anything about all the beloved Quaker texts that are out of print or otherwise not available in a format RantWoman can access easily. RantWoman also wants to call out the point that people of different ages read in different media. If Friends think beloved Quaker texts should be of interest to people who read primarily on their devices, RantWoman would say PUT THE BELOVED TEXTS IN PLACES WHERE PEOPLE CAN READ THEM ON THEIR DEVICES.

Behold: slightly edited extracts from an email with MUCH to say about Oops and Ouches and Whoas.

One important ouch going in: the call to Annual Session had a glib statement about how suggested reading, Thomas R Kelly's a testament of devotion is out of print but Friends should be able to find a copy easily. Out of print actually means available only in print. Can you see the Ouch in assuming everyone reads print? 

Anyway, every day one of the suggested passages for worship groups was exactly from A Testament of Devotion. Since the worship group quotes and queries came electronically and I have the tools I need (no fuss no muss no abusive BS from Conflict is a Gift of God Friend) to read with a screen reader I probably did as much of the reading as lot of other Friends.

As far as the bigger ongoing out of print ouch, (RantWoman) actually reached out to Mary Klein and another blind woman now on the board of Western Friend with some ideas about reissuing. Friend Editor says if we can find who currently has the copyright there may be possibilities....

Here RantWoman has a sad: part of the reason "Ask the editor of Western Friend" came to RantWoman is because of abortive conversation about doing an audio version of Faith and Practice. RantWoman LOVED some of the ideas that were part of thinking about this project. RantWoman's sad is because RantWoman had decided to leave things to Western Friend and the Faith and Practice committee and a younger Friend also very interested in an audio version of Faith And Practice. Then the younger Friend got disgusted by whatever was happening or not happening at a certain mother of all Meetings meeting and resigned their membership.

RantWoman cannot by herself tend to either of these projects. RantWoman also thinks there are many many Friends who might appreciate more Quaker audio materials and RantWoman would be thrilled to cheerlead if there were Friends interested in working on more Quaker materials in audio format.

Composting Ouches Memorial version

Warning: RantWoman is in full curmudgeon adult who definitely does not yet have her whole act together mode. When RantWoman was new to worshipping among Friends, RantWoman found it reassuring that adults her parents' age did not fully have their acts together: RantWoman figured there would be space to figure out her own act guiltfree. RantWoman is humble about how her grace has frayed. Blame the pandemic? Blame the previous administration? Blame looming climate catastrophe?

RantWoman just write what you came here to write.

Pssst. Junior Friends, 

RantWoman heard your queries. Well RantWoman heard them once. But Oops, RantWoman forgot  to proclaim as loudly as possible everywhere that SCREENSHARE IS NOT ACCESSIBLE. Please either put in the chat or have a link in the chat. The point: RantWoman has a mind like sieve and what is going to stick there is highly variable. RantWoman remembers an inquiry about whether Friends have ever heard a much younger Friend speak in worship. Yes, VERY rarely and RantWoman always silently applauds when it happens. RantWoman also remembers an inquiry about how to learn from the experiences of older Friends.

RantWoman generally recommends not waiting around for someone to die. That said, Memorial minutes can be a wealth of things to remember.

RantWoman recommends This year's memorial minutes as one place to start

Three minutes stick out even though RantWoman also had words for others.

Judith Reynolds Brown whose memorial minute seems not yet to have made it either to the NPYM site or to the Western Friend Memorials page , the intrepid discerner of capacity from Nominating Committee who first persuaded RantWoman that she should take on the role of recording clerk.

Bill (William H) Matchett, the clerk of UFM when RantWoman first served as Recording Clerk.

RantWoman has decided not to name the next person she wants to uplift because of the nature of the message that a Friend brought during Annual Session Meeting for Memorials. Friends agreed that this Friend was "wired differently" and offered several accounts of the intensity that brought. One Friend also acknowledged as a Junior Friend teasing the deceased Friend in a way that was probably hurtful. There is no place in "Oops Ouch Whoa" land to put the comment "Gee, nice of you to say so now that the Friend is DEAD."

The names of two more Friends, former Junior Friends who died much too young came up in a subsequent worship along with the comment that they were well loved and other Junior Friend peers were able to walk with them through some painful and difficult situations. Through the miracle of worshipful composting, RantWoman in the space of a few hours went from "that's nice but RantWoman's experience of Baptist Sunday School was nothing like...and RantWoman might have been too much of a nerd to fit in." to "Ohhhh, maybe the Junior Friends have some magic some of the adults really really need help seeing." MAYBE

Stay tuned anyway because RantWoman has other OUCHES to compost.

National security mindset Jan. 6 attack ‘emboldened our enemies,’ and other points

RantWoman, what's a good Quaker doing wading into the national security mindset?

Here is one topical clip from this week's #January6 #insurrection hearing.

RantWoman's Twitter feed includes what appear to be strands of disinformation from multiple directions.

Turkey detains and then releases RUSSIAN ship carrying Ukrainian grain

The Black Sea fleet and ...

RantWoman is not going to look very far for the video of navies from multiple Nordic countries tap dancing with a Russian nuclear submarine and some support vessels in the Baltic sea.

Instead, A different naval exercises video

Ukrainian forces on the offensive in Kherson. Russians attempting to set up pupper governments elsewhere

RantWoman recommends holding everyone whose job it is to tend to other national security matters whileHhearings are Going On

NPYM virtual scrapbook

 Parts of NPYM 2022 just stored here for now:

Friend in Residence Carl Magruder

Minute in Support of Indigenous People

with MUCH appreciation for Friends involved in substantial seasoning compared to initial draft.

RantWoman is glad that, while she found the bibliography created during this seasoning daunting and overwhelming, others have embraced its resources with gratitude. 

Bill Matchett Memorial minute

linked here because of Bill's history of work on indigenous affairs

Also note, digression from indigenous issues, Friends can find many poems and some reading videos online by searching William H Matchett

FWCC epistles page

Do I gotta love Lauren Boebert?

CW: Video contains Racism, islamophobia, and multiple flavors of, how to say it in Quakerese or are we permitted Excessively Plain English...?

RantWoman posts this as one option to help Friends prepare for Saturday morning's  NPYM Annual Session ONLINE Interest Group on Loving your neighbor across the aisle.

https://npym.org/registration/specialReports/IGListPrintSignupSheets.php?presess=0&online=1&bg=fef2d6

Living worship and the war in Ukraine

A full mailchimp link with options to subscribe to invitations to worship in connection with the war in Ukraine

Click the link above for multiple opportunities to worship with Friends and concerns for all affected by the war in Ukraine.

The main worship, at 9 am Pacific time daily keeps evolving. Here is this weejk's evolution.

Quaker Peace-Building Perspectives
will have a series of facilitated queries to respond to.  
Time limits will assure equal opportunity to participate.
All are welcome.
Monday's queries were
What does Peace-Building mean to you?
What did you hear from others that resonated for you? 
What did you hear that was new?
Tuesday's topic: Building Trust
Wednesday's topic: Building empathy
Thursday: Recap

Friday: Plain Speaking 

RantWoman is forgiving herself for, last week, missing the late Tuesday night /Wednesday worship with Kyiv . Friends. 2:30 am Central time did not work.

Tonight RantWoman needed to sit with not only Friends witness but also Twitter streams about which Ukrainian cities are getting shelled, tidings brought by the Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian Fires, and multilingual scholarly reflections on WTF is a certain overly re-elected Russian "president" really up to.

RantWoman will not stop holding in theLight just because worship is over for this week.

Steve Hofstetter has words for anyone thinking of voting for Dr. Oz

RantWoman wishes to applaud both items here as examples of Democrats heroically displaying more spine than snails. Perhaps that is enough.

David Doel on what John Fetterman is doing right

CHristopher Titus apologizes to Millennials and GEN Z

RantWoman humbly offers this partial enumeration of great news moments that millenials and Gen Z have groun up with as a distraction from multiple current calamities.

Warning: profanity.

Also in BadFriend Confess-o-rama: SPICES

Wild peonies
from a recent visit
to RantMom

Confession Time! 

Are you overachieving as far as things to confess about?

Why confess only once?

Here, slightly expanded, are thoughts that came to RantWoman during a recent Worship Sharing.

Among the traditional testimonies of Friends - SPICES (Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, Stewardship) 

– Which speak to you the most? 

-- Which are hardest or most challenging for you?

RantWoman is bad at all of them

Does one flunk simplicity if one refuses to collapse an entire faith tradition into six words? 

Equality: people of privilege have EXPECTATIONS (including me) But it's a challenge to community when there is too much expectation around equality.

Integrity when inconvenient truths fall out of one's mouth, this can, um, stress community.

RantWoman will find it too easy to disturb peace with an argument about whether peace and community are redundant.

Stewardship? RantWoman is challenged about managing her own household. The cat does not consider maid service part of the bargain. And all of this before RantWoman leaves her house   and interacts with Life Issues such as Transportation.

RantWoman, STOP. Just stick up for practices such as daily prayer or shared worship. DO NOT try to fit all  or Quakerism into one post.

 

So how's your sex offender, 2022 edition

Let's hear it for "Oops. Ouch Whoa?"

First, Readers are permitted to wonder how RantWoman ALWAYS finds some way to encounter sex offender issues in conversations at large gatherings

Second, no, RantWoman is not going to comment in detail about specific individuals beyond suggesting holding in the Light. RantWoman means to post separately about worshipping with...but one topic at a time.

Tonight after the suggested dialogue for this year's NPYM Annual Session Oops Ouch Whoa training had been tried, there was space and Friends present for RantWoman to blurt out something she has thought a lot about:

RantWoman exactly understands the systemic racism of the Criminal (in)Justice System. RantWoman understands horrifying statistics about how violence, abuse, and neglect replicate themselves from one generation to another. RantWoman also understands the horrible conditions which prevail in most "correctional" institutions.

AND

RantWoman wants to scream OUCH every time young Friends proclaim themselves prison abolitionists. 

1. As far as RantWoman is concerned, UNDER the jail would be a good place for the serial molester who victimized a Rant Sibling.

2. It is not hard, if one talks to Friends involved with Alternatives to Violence, to find people who will say honestly that prison was the best thing that happened to them.

3. Sometimes RantWoman finds it more fitting to attend to survivors' complex experiences than to spend too much time on offenders.

RantWoman is VERY grateful that a review of NPYM child safety practices has hopefully settled down. RantWoman is grateful to have heard consideration of the policy in more than one place. RantWoman is deeply grateful for committee members who endured complaints of racism and prouncements which sounded to RantWoman like unexamined privilege. RantWoman is grateful for the clarity and emphatic voices who share RantWoman's perspectives about responsible positions. RantWoman is grateful for efforts to create positive safe spaces for youth to talk and learn. 

RantWoman is not quite sure what to do with the reality that everything to do with sexual assault can plow into Yucky Topics zones SO RantWoman will digress to efforts to digest related conversations elsewhere.

CW / TW: abuse, sexual assault, racism homophobia

And in non-Quaker news, at #ACB22 while coping with elevators RantWoman bumped into a lawyer and ACB Board member and had a brief conversation about continuing efforts by the National Federation of the Blind, those other blind people, to address issues of sexual misconduct.

RantWoman has no detailed knowledge of anything beyond what is available in multiple published articles. RantWoman simply notes that as of 2022, insurance companies have a long list of best practices for helping ensure the safety of program participants, students, people involved in religious congregation activities. Problems arose for the NFB because for a long time they were doing exactly none of those best practices. Those best practices should be a minimum. RantWoman wants to appreciate very important progress and commitments to training. RantWoman is also vexed not to see training about some of those best practices explicitly included in the descriptions she has read so far.

Raising Expectations NFB PResident Marc Riccobono

NFB Sex Crimes Abuses Cover-ups

Former LCB students allege toxic culture

Interest Groups with a dollop of Oops. Ouch WHOAAAAA training.

RantWoman did not get an Interest Group Proposal submitted by the deadline so look out world. LAST YEAR it was possible to see the interest group schedule as it developed so one could try not to schedule one's group in conflict with others one might wish to attend. RantWoman finds this year's submit blind process vexing.

That said, RantWoman is posting the interest group invitation as an artifact. RantWoman also opted to leave in some mental clutter that collected in the draft.. 

PS Worship Group leaders also get to do Oops Ouch Whoa. RantWoman finds this reassuring and also challenging.

Interest Groups

Time is set aside in our program for opportunities to share and learn, to go deeper with a smaller group than plenaries may allow, or to meet with those who share a special concern, or who need an alternative to the more general program. We encourage Friends to propose and to attend these Interest Groups as a chance for spiritual growth and building friendships. A list of scheduled Interest Groups with brief descriptions will appear on this page as Groups are proposed.

This year, Interest Groups will be either (1) in-person only, for Friends gathered in Monmouth, or (2) on-line only, or (3) hybrid, open to both Friends gathered in person and those who join via web conferencing. The description for each interest group will specify its format.

Unlike prior years, registration for Interest Groups will be available as Annual Session grows closer, rather than as part of Friends' initial Annual Session registrations. More information coming soon.

If you would like to lead an Interest Group,  simply fill and submit the Interest Group Submission form before the June 22nd deadline.

Every interest group leader is required to virtually attend one of the free pre-session Ouch-Whoa-Oops trainings.

There.

RantWoman will now resume reading a presumably satirical Twitter account called the Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian Fires about how many hectares of forest fires are just being allowed to burn in different Siberian Oblasts.

If that does not wipe away the anxiety, a word about Marjorie Taylor Greene and words from here.

First the observation: RantWoman considers it a sign of Democratic Party contempt that #MTG did not have any Democratic opponent.

Now, according to MTG Transgender people are coming for all the tampons

Oh, and #LaurenBoebert, NO THEY'RE NOT Trans people are NOT coming for your or anyone else's children

 

They are coming for your children and they are not hiding it. https://t.co/9qmdow46Fn

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) June 24, 2022

The Colorado River Basin: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

RantWoman is travelling and has pre-scheduled some posts for readers who among other things need their minimum daily requirement of the F word. 

John Oliver on Environmental Racism 2022