After the election: MidWeek Meeting for Worship, and...

MEETING FOR WORSHIP EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING

6:45 TO 7:45 PM.


University Friends Meeting Worship Room



That of God emanating from NPR informs RantWoman that on Election night throughout the land many houses of worship from the Nazarenes to the Episcopalians will be holding special worship and prayer gatherings. RantWoman's Light based on past post election experience is that such occasions sometimes inspire both seekers and journalists to address the search engine of their choice or, if kind of retro, to call up and ask "what do the Quakers think?" or "What are the Quakers Doing?"


RantWoman thinks that many Friends will be wanting to go to other election night events. RantWoman calls her readers' attention to University Friends Meeting's regular midweek Meeting for Worship at the coordinates above. If any results are the least bit doubt on Tuesday evening, much greater clarity may have arrived by Wednesday!


RantWoman will consult with weightier voices or at least the clerks of key committees about a general and more formal invitation. RantWoman is also clear that God and the authority to note a public invitation already extended are accessible to all.


RantWoman especially invites those who feel led to pray, reflect, celebrate, mourn, lament, howl, yowl, commiserate, yearn, hope, envision.. related to results of the election to consider this worship opportunity.


Note: our worship is unprogrammed expectant waiting on Divine messages. Even if one is certain a message involves howling or yowling, we urge anyone offering a message to ask whatever you call the Divine for help holding at least a few breaths of worshipful silence between messages.



RantWoman further soberly notes:

--An assortment of people believe that the earth is only a few thousand years old and that the Bible is a perfect roadmap for family life.


--A long and embarrassing parade of politicians keeps making angels dancing on the head of a pin pronouncements about rape and conception and abortion and the will of God. These politicians never once ask themselves why the US ranks embarrassingly low among industrialized nations in infant mortality and other measures of maternal and child health or what policy steps might both cut the number of unwanted pregnancies and improve these other indicators.



Our nation needs particular ONGOING prayers, if only because the politicians described above are no less certain than is RantWoman to be speaking for God--and we ALL get to try to work out our problems together. May we all at least pray together. In that vein, why stop at a one-time visit. Y'all are welcome every week too!

Ben Pink Dandelion at North Seattle Friends

If news somehow has missed you of Ben Pink Dandelion delivering 3 days of Woodward lectures at North Seattle Friends Church, on the topic "A Short History of Time, Transformation, and the Quakers," there is still time for two more lectures.

http://www.facebook.com/events/157298894410964

If you are short of time, get on the road to the lectures and skip the rants below!


The stories of Ben Pink Dandelion's name make RantWoman smile, not only for the utterly engaging delivery. Ben was born a surprise to parents, "devout atheists," in their 40's. For some reason a Biblical story about parents in a similar state led then to name him Benjamin. The surname? Oh, the surname. That dates from a peace camp in 1984. All the anarchists there took very silly names. Everyone else with even sillier names changed their names back the next year. Pink Dandelion did not. RantWoman wonders whether the concept of parental consternation applies to atheist parents faced with such choices.
RantWoman is  Biblically challenged as far as the finer points of theNew Testamentand the evolution of Paul's thinking. RantWoman is also severely challenged as to early religious tracts and the history of 17th century England. Perhaps it is no wonder that some pieces of the story Pink Dandelion is trying to tell have not cohered in RantWoman's mind. Alas, RantWoman is going to be unable to attend the Sunday lecture where the part about what all this means for our life today is on the schedule. So RantWoman wil have either to get the lecture secondhand subject to idiosyncratic digestion,  , read abook, or trust her own Light. Oh Dear!

Speaking of reading a book, SIGH! RantWoman visited both Amazon and Pendle Hill sites. Pendle Hill is selling NOTHING electronically, not even so much as a PDF version of a pamphlet. SIGH! RantWoman found a number of things on Amazon and bought a small pamphlet for her Kindle. RantWoman gets to debate about any more of the subset of the total titles that are availabe for her Kindle. Sigh!

And then there was Powerpoint, aka Death by Powerpoint in Quakerese.

RantWoman congratulates Pink Dandelion for his very first Powerpoint ever, a VERY Quakerly Powerpoint.

First, RantWoman was told there were three slides;RantWoman remembers only two. In eihter case, RantWomanappreciates numerical modesty. The title slide was appropriately plain. Bold font, womehwat larger would not have hurt.

The other slide RantWoman remembers featured some kind of a line drawing of timelines tying together the first Coming and the Second Coming. The image was very Quakerly in the following sense. No one expects RantWoman to see anything but fog and blur; almost no one else could see anything either. This approach certainly evokes a certain visual sense of Waiting on God. If that was the intended effect, RantWoman thinks this Powerpoint virgin succeeded remarkably. RantWoman is not feeling nearly as absolutist as sometimes about Powerpoint. In fact, she is compiling a couple of Powerpoint sins forto send to a blind Powerpointer needing to make some pedagogical points; in the Spirit of integrity and single standard ofTruth, for purposes here, advice: if you are going to sin with Powerpoint in the first  place, PLEASE sin boldly!

In the meantime, another concept to check out at the lectures, get thee to  the next two lectures!

Plain People Bodice Rippers: book teaser article

Blog as file cabinet item from USA today about romance novels set in plain sect communities, something to put on RantWOman's maybe mean to read list:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/happyeverafter/2012/10/31/lyn-cote-their-frontier-family-bonnet-romances/1672883/

Halloween, Hanging over

Silence.




(Warm lighting



Grey-brown chairs against grey-brown walls punctuated by Exit signs.)



Silence.



(I will not text during Meeting for Worship. I will not text during Meeting for Worship. I will not text during Meeting for Worship.



No, but I WILL do my hand PT exercises.



I will not text during Meeting for Worship. I will not text during Meeting for Worship. I will not text during Meeting for Worship.



No, but I will exercise legs, ankles, wrists….)



Silence.





(Halloween is the middle of the week, so which Sunday gets to be Reformation Sunday?)



Silence.











Zombie figures wandering back and forth between worlds or at least in and out of worship mourning

Andrew Tole, whom RantWoman never met, of Harvard Business School and case study method fame.

Rice Bucket Friend who just had a memorial that should have its own post

(Mother of Peace Activist Friend, seriously weighty Friend in her own right

Mr. Recently Widowed Friend

Lynn Waddington whose book needs to be an audio book.

Police officer shot in line of duty the same day Lynn died and his brave partner who returned to work after also having been shot

Recently Decamped Neighbor due to get her own memorial)





Halloween #Haiku #Quakers





Too much Quaker grey?

Bright lighting, many fidgets

Again with the bland?



Too much Quaker grey?

A time of many colors

Worshipful palette?







A Rainbow sweater

A coat of many colors

Halloween party!



A Rainbow sweater

A coat of many colors

Biblical harvest



Multihued Worship

A night of many colors

Happy Halloween







More blog characters

Think Worship and Ministry

Maybe don’t think hard.



I see you’re in pain

Let me tell you about mine.

Worship and mourning?



Evolution Friend

All evolution always

When do we evolve?



Overbooked parents

An hour and a half per month

To get God’s work done?



Put it behind you …

We have a fresh new load of …

Biblical harvest?



“I’m scared. God’s spooky”

“Your God’s too spooky for me.”

“God is mine, all mine.”



Hold us In the Light!

I do not apologize

For speaking my Truth



Multihued Worship

Discerning many colors

Happy Halloween



So I thank You God

For the fabulous curry

Still warming me up



Multihued Worship

Discerning many colors

Happy Halloween



Oh, Oh, Montana

Neighbor Recently Decamped,

From East Helena



Oh, Oh, Montana

My brother wants, needs his coat

Winter drawing near



Oh, Oh, Montana

Painful things near my surface

Oh, Oh, Montana



Multihued Worship

A night of many colors

Happy Halloween





Metro Halloween

All kinds of Spooks and Goblins

May I get off here?



Multifaith Metro

Need Peace Testimony NOW

Happy Halloween



Are you a Muslim?

A very drunk Halloween…

May I get off here?



Metro Halloween

A very blessed Halloween

Again with the blessed?

Facebookistan: rapist Friends rape survivor from long ago

Warnng: FRANK discussion of survivor issues and circumstances related to a rape.

Creepy and full of rationalizations but in places surprisingly less creepy than one might think.

Emily McComs, editor of www.xojane.com  talks about her rapist asking to Friend her on Facebook.

http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/oct/26/?utm_source=local&utm_media=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed



RantWoman is posting this here because of a story about 2/3 of the way through about a woman whose rapist Friended her on Facebook. Here is the link for the whole show, for background about the Facebok practies that made this encounter possible.

http://www.onthemedia.org/popup_player/#

EidPrayer

RantWoman apologizes: she has no idea what would be a proper greeting for this occasion but RantWoman wants to offer something appropriate.

RantWoman has been on a mailing list for the Idriss Mosque since sometime after 9/11 and reproduces the email without further comment as an artifact of our day.


In the Name of Allah, The Most Compassionate, The Most Merciful

Location:
McCaw Hall (At the Seattle Center) 321 Mercer Street Seattle, WA

Eid celebration
Friday, October 26, 2012, will be Eid Al Adha


The Program Schedule
9:00 AM: Takbeer
9:30 AM: Eid Prayer
9:40 AM: Eid Khutbah

Come early, bring a rug; security has been provided for everyone�s safety

SECURE VENUE,

The Seattle Police Department will be out in FULL-Force to secure McCaw Hall (At the Seattle Center) and surrounding areas for the protection of all the Muslim community.


Directions, Parking & Maps
http://www.mccawhall.com/plan-your-visit/getting-here


Parking Garage across the street on Mercer

McCaw Hall is located on Mercer Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues, on the north edge of the Seattle Center campus, approximately 2 miles north of the Downtown Seattle business district. The Hall�s street address is 321 Mercer Street.

Via Public Transportation
Buses Bus lines that have stops within a 3-block radius of the main McCaw Hall entrance: 3, 4, 16, 30 & 45 (express)

■Mercer/Warren stop (heading eastbound): 30 & 45 (express)
■Mercer/4th Ave stop (heading eastbound): 30 & 45 (express)
■5th Ave/Republican (heading northbound): 3, 4 & 16
■5th Ave/Mercer (heading southbound): 3, 4 & 16
For more information, please visit King County Metro.

Seattle Center Monorail
Seattle Center Monorail is the nation�s first full-scale commercial monorail system which provides a fun, quick and convenient link between downtown Seattle and Seattle Center.

The monorail departs approximately every 10 minutes from two stations:
■Seattle Center station, adjacent to the Space Needle
■Westlake Center Mall station, at Fifth Avenue and Pine StreetIf you chose to take public transportation, the following site will be offering you assistance in finding the appropriate information:

http://tripplanner.metrokc.gov/cgi-bin/itin_page.pl?resptype=U

Excellent Service Dog Fundraiser--with bonus rant

First click here for a really powerful request from a parent trying not only to look out for her child's interests but also to get help about an appropriately trained service dog.




RantWoman enthusiastically endorses this plea for funds.
http://tapeflags.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-open-letter-from-my-friend-sarai.html


If you have not been fully inspired or your life still suffers a tirade deficit, may RantWoman offer a couple comparatively further remonstrances:
From another mom trying to figure out how to fund training for a dog who already provides many of the benefits of a dog with more training:

...it really pisses me off that disabled people have to either fork over massive amounts of money or go without, when it comes to service dogs. ... Why is it that our government can justify spending massive amounts of money to kill and disable people in other countries, but not to pay for the relatively small cost (for the government, but huge for most individuals who aren't independently wealthy) of a service dog??

Why should parents like Sarai and myself have to worry about our kids wandering off and getting hit by a car, failing in school, etc....just because we cannot afford the training for these dogs?

RantWoman's version from the perspective of a state budget in a state where there are a large number of known billionaires most of whom RantWoman suspects are tragically undertaxed:

The state budget version is why should parents have to bear all the risks just because our poor benighted rich people need some more tax breaks and a lot of people are afflicted by paralyzing phobias every time anyone breathes thoughts of fairer taxation?

Please note: the rants above are framed in terms of government. RantWoman would never discourage the private sector from taking more initiative as well.

Here's hoping Sarai in the post at the top gets her service dog funded and trained. Then she can move on to fun, fun, fun moments such as the ones captured here:

http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2011/04/service-dogs-simplicity-integrity-and.html


http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2011/07/service-animals.html