RantWoman is not in a position really to comment in general about the closing of Catholic parishes but does take note particularly of physical characteristics of the current and proposed new buildings in this story below, about a parish which focuses on the needs of the Deaf.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2015/04/10/april-10-2015-deaf-church/25719/
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The Kitman Flower: a nice picture at least.
Has RantWoman mentioned how much she adores Twitter?
RantWoman enthusiastically posts the image below from a tweet about the Kitma Flower as an alternative to something about Maslow.
RantWoman humbly acknowledges that readers should also feel entitled to the same twitch RantWoman has about expecting cute simple diagrams to collapse everything that matters and turn into language instantly undersatandable and actionable by all and sundry.
Furthermore, RantWoman started this post just trying to file some email. RantWoman herself would like to take time and elaborate on ideas and concepts even a little. But when RantWoman invoked her search engine of choices, she got served:
--the internet equivalent of a blank stare from Instagram when RantWoman clicked something out of the tweet.
--"Did you mean batman flower?"
--Sundry graves for people named Kitman and options for adding flowers.
RantWoman takes all of this as a sign that the picture is going to have to do for now. Sigh.
RantWoman enthusiastically posts the image below from a tweet about the Kitma Flower as an alternative to something about Maslow.
RantWoman humbly acknowledges that readers should also feel entitled to the same twitch RantWoman has about expecting cute simple diagrams to collapse everything that matters and turn into language instantly undersatandable and actionable by all and sundry.
Furthermore, RantWoman started this post just trying to file some email. RantWoman herself would like to take time and elaborate on ideas and concepts even a little. But when RantWoman invoked her search engine of choices, she got served:
--the internet equivalent of a blank stare from Instagram when RantWoman clicked something out of the tweet.
--"Did you mean batman flower?"
--Sundry graves for people named Kitman and options for adding flowers.
RantWoman takes all of this as a sign that the picture is going to have to do for now. Sigh.
Monday, April 6, 2015
Micah Bales: Are Quakers capable of....
Very cool, theologically energetic discussion of how to share Quakers' light and grow.
Read both the posting and all the comments. RantWoman means to update her blog so this blog atain cycles in her blog roll. In the meantime, get it here:
http://www.micahbales.com/quakers-capable-planting-churches/
Please note: this language will be very comfortable to people who identify as christian; RantWoman is posting it here in honor of how discussions are fired by people sharing with integrity of how they are led spiritually across different languages.
Read both the posting and all the comments. RantWoman means to update her blog so this blog atain cycles in her blog roll. In the meantime, get it here:
http://www.micahbales.com/quakers-capable-planting-churches/
Please note: this language will be very comfortable to people who identify as christian; RantWoman is posting it here in honor of how discussions are fired by people sharing with integrity of how they are led spiritually across different languages.
Friday, April 3, 2015
Akvarium - Adelaida: Prayer with Blood Moon on the side.
God HELLLLP! (Citation: the Anne Lamont "Help Thanks Wow" schools of supplication.)
RantWoman apologizes for keeping readers in suspense about the full Schonbergian rattle of themes RantWoman needs HELLLP about. RantWoman more wishes to chronicle the sort of versatile God who delivers messages via Facebook and Scientific American. RantWoman emphatically does NOT apologize for finding messages in these places even though others she holds near and dear do not.
There would be that thought passing by fast somewhere amid RantWoman's electronic grazing: the Gospels maybe possibly (probably) got editted by people who looked up prophesy and wrote the Gospels to fulfill what previous texts had promised. Oh myyy! Now there is an idea that could, um, liven up RantFamily Easter dinner discussion.
But it's not Easter yet.
First we get to have a lunar eclipse and call it a blood moon!
Now there's some freaky symbolism. A blood moon. Good thing Dr. Science (degree mentioned specifically to avoid having to assume a gender) can already tell us it's a perfectly normal natural phenomenon even if this lunar elcipse will be the shortest one this century.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/moon-will-turn-red-easter
Hmmm. As the most frequently repeated phrase in the Bible says, "fear not." And in case RantWoman did not get the message, the gospel according to Scientific American says almost anything that reduces stress can help in some moments of psychic paralysis.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-you-get-stuck-guessing-relieve-stress/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
Reduce stress?
RantWoman tried a very old Grateful Dead video. The very young-looking Grateful Dead may come back, but instead, RantWoman's search bar collected Russian artist Boris Grbenshchikov and the band Akvarium, and a very soothing song Adeleida.
RantWoman has given herself permission not even to try to parse everything.
..Wind, clouds, Snow. We're alone in this house. Don't be afraid of the knock at the window. It's for me. It's the north wind. The north wind is my friend. It preserves what is hidden and clears the sky of clouds where the star Adeleida is rising...I have heard that time erases everything. ... and there is no sadness or .. no pride or offendedness. There is only. ..(heartbeat?) and it will wake me up where the star Adeleida is rising....
Really?
NO God, This is RantWoman we're not there yet. But it's a a beautiful song. Start there.
RantWoman apologizes for keeping readers in suspense about the full Schonbergian rattle of themes RantWoman needs HELLLP about. RantWoman more wishes to chronicle the sort of versatile God who delivers messages via Facebook and Scientific American. RantWoman emphatically does NOT apologize for finding messages in these places even though others she holds near and dear do not.
There would be that thought passing by fast somewhere amid RantWoman's electronic grazing: the Gospels maybe possibly (probably) got editted by people who looked up prophesy and wrote the Gospels to fulfill what previous texts had promised. Oh myyy! Now there is an idea that could, um, liven up RantFamily Easter dinner discussion.
But it's not Easter yet.
First we get to have a lunar eclipse and call it a blood moon!
Now there's some freaky symbolism. A blood moon. Good thing Dr. Science (degree mentioned specifically to avoid having to assume a gender) can already tell us it's a perfectly normal natural phenomenon even if this lunar elcipse will be the shortest one this century.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/moon-will-turn-red-easter
Hmmm. As the most frequently repeated phrase in the Bible says, "fear not." And in case RantWoman did not get the message, the gospel according to Scientific American says almost anything that reduces stress can help in some moments of psychic paralysis.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-you-get-stuck-guessing-relieve-stress/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
Reduce stress?
RantWoman tried a very old Grateful Dead video. The very young-looking Grateful Dead may come back, but instead, RantWoman's search bar collected Russian artist Boris Grbenshchikov and the band Akvarium, and a very soothing song Adeleida.
RantWoman has given herself permission not even to try to parse everything.
..Wind, clouds, Snow. We're alone in this house. Don't be afraid of the knock at the window. It's for me. It's the north wind. The north wind is my friend. It preserves what is hidden and clears the sky of clouds where the star Adeleida is rising...I have heard that time erases everything. ... and there is no sadness or .. no pride or offendedness. There is only. ..(heartbeat?) and it will wake me up where the star Adeleida is rising....
Really?
NO God, This is RantWoman we're not there yet. But it's a a beautiful song. Start there.
Good Friday for this year: Martin Luther King's Last Speech: "I've Been To The Mountaintop" April 3 1968
RantWoman used to have a co-worker who would never schedule meetings on Good Friday.
He would say "Jesus is dead and you expect me to work?" RantWoman, funnily enough one time reminded him of this when she looked at her calendar faster than he looked at his.
RantWoman has a long list of to-do's on top of some want-to-do's; yet RantWoman seems to be in the same boat about Good Friday.
And it's Good Frieday
and RantWoman has all sorts of tangled thoughts about people who come to Quakers from growing up with no religious background and people who come to Quakers needing to find faith community plus or minus somethign throbbing from their past. And then there are the people who come to Quakers fired up about some call to social action or sense of urgency about spiritual life and learning to live together and save the planet / prevent nulcea war / heal millenia of historical disputes. RantWoman does not actually CARE if this all seems way too much for her readers; RantWoman trusts that the threads will weabe the way they need to go.
For the occasion, RantWoman offers first a short clip from the end of Martin Luther King's Ihave been to the Mountaintop speech and then a link to the whole speech.
And the whole speech:
He would say "Jesus is dead and you expect me to work?" RantWoman, funnily enough one time reminded him of this when she looked at her calendar faster than he looked at his.
RantWoman has a long list of to-do's on top of some want-to-do's; yet RantWoman seems to be in the same boat about Good Friday.
And it's Good Frieday
and RantWoman has all sorts of tangled thoughts about people who come to Quakers from growing up with no religious background and people who come to Quakers needing to find faith community plus or minus somethign throbbing from their past. And then there are the people who come to Quakers fired up about some call to social action or sense of urgency about spiritual life and learning to live together and save the planet / prevent nulcea war / heal millenia of historical disputes. RantWoman does not actually CARE if this all seems way too much for her readers; RantWoman trusts that the threads will weabe the way they need to go.
For the occasion, RantWoman offers first a short clip from the end of Martin Luther King's Ihave been to the Mountaintop speech and then a link to the whole speech.
And the whole speech:
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Philadelphia: the great experiment The Storm (1765-1790) Official Trailer
Look World. It's Maundy bleeping Thursday. RantWoman is happy to flag an ABC television series called Philadelphia The Great Experiemnt on her mean to consume media list. Given the city's Quaker roots, it seems ENTIRELY on point to view AT SOME POINT.
RantWoman does not of course own a television so the viewing will either have to be the sort of social occasion where RantWoman invites herself to someone's house or mediated by the interwebs. Either way RantWoman expects to be too busy meditating on The Last Supper or at least on Ben & Jerry's Kosher for Passover Charoset ice cream (Does it sound kind of good to anyone besides RantWoman?) to want to watch the video tonight. Tough!
RantWoman does not of course own a television so the viewing will either have to be the sort of social occasion where RantWoman invites herself to someone's house or mediated by the interwebs. Either way RantWoman expects to be too busy meditating on The Last Supper or at least on Ben & Jerry's Kosher for Passover Charoset ice cream (Does it sound kind of good to anyone besides RantWoman?) to want to watch the video tonight. Tough!
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Happy April Fool's, with Lenin!
RantWoman will be spending April Fools day.... Never mind. Hold a medical procedure in the Light.
Also hold in the Light the peculiar communion sometimes of just blurting things out. RantWoman blurted out something about the medical procedure to someone she barely knows. Someone RantWoman barely knows gets to have the same procedure every year for her medical condition. RantWoman will now also be glad to have only her own problems!
In the meantime, a reprise of an item from long ago, along with a pic of Seattle's very own Fremont lenin mentioned in the blog post reprised here.
http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2009/04/snow-on-april-fools-day.html
And if Lenin in Fremont were not enough:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25299153
Also hold in the Light the peculiar communion sometimes of just blurting things out. RantWoman blurted out something about the medical procedure to someone she barely knows. Someone RantWoman barely knows gets to have the same procedure every year for her medical condition. RantWoman will now also be glad to have only her own problems!
In the meantime, a reprise of an item from long ago, along with a pic of Seattle's very own Fremont lenin mentioned in the blog post reprised here.
http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2009/04/snow-on-april-fools-day.html
And if Lenin in Fremont were not enough:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25299153
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