Catchphrase of the day: "publishers of Truth," with particular concern for the possibility of "a little too much of the Truth."
Domain Facebook and a Yearly Meeting IT issues listserve.
Question: Does Conflict Is a Gift of God Friend in fact have status as a released Friend and where can one go electronically to check on this?
The minutes of Yearly Meeting Ministry and Oversight? Yes apparently but see notes below about indexing, archiving.
The minutes of some yearly meeting body? Possibly. RantWoman is unclear though there will be graphical evidence at least of an endorsement. Again with the indexing concern.
The minutes of Conflict is a Gift of God Friend's monthly Meeting?
Yes, over time, not easily searchable. Internet availability and indexing / archiving practices unspecified.
Plus, last time ...'s status was renewed, discussion at one moment went something like
Friend 1: "Conflict is a Gift of God Friend can sometimes be (a mean nasty abusive jerk)!
Friend 2 "Friend 1's experience exactly matches mine"
The minutes of said Monthly Meeting for Business: "Conflict is a Gift of God Friend can be a little prickly sometimes" The minutes made no mention of another point from oral discussion: a thought as to "always travelling with an elder," a concept that it was beyond the Light of those assembled to apply to electronic realms. Suppose for instance, that Conflict is a Gift of God Friend were to arm-wrestle RantWoman for task of clerking the Still Didn't Get the Memo Committee on Email Immoderation. Just suppose?
But Never Mind. RantWoman does tartly note progress in her (and Conflict is a Gift of GOD Friend's) Monthly Meeting over a number of years about released friend minute attention to basics such as appropriate cycles for renewing such documents.
In the present case, Conversation with Conflict is a Gift of God Friend himself reveals suggestions from several quarters that he post documentation of his status in some way on Facebook. Conflict is a Gift of God Friend proposed to post gifs of assembled and translated documents along with endorsements. He awaits time and technical assistance to accomplish this. RantWoman will speak to the most tech-savvy member of Conflict Is a Gift of God Friend's support committee. By tech-savvy, RantWoman means knows way around spreadsheets for work-related reasons and regularly posts on Facebook. RantWoman thinks it should not be a giant stretch from here to do what is needed.
Accessibility note: RantWoman will feel entitled to whine on principle about gifs of relevant documents. Then RantWoman will shut up and rely on her screen reader's OCR function for everything except the handwritten endorsements! See RantWoman COPE!
And in case RantWoman and God cannot between then get it together to COPE, a lovely prayer via Facebook from a Cuban Friend for Conflict is a Gift of God Friend's most recent travels.
(Amiga Cubana) Mi hermano, querido (Amigo) ,que Dios sea contigo durante este mes en que ministras a los Amig@s en esos lugares. Que te de sabiduría de palabra y humildad de espíritu al compartir los dones que provienen de lo alto. Que la Paz del Señor sea siempre contigo. Estaré pensando y orando en y por tí. Va un fuerte abrazo.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Quakerese...or...The Daily Show!
Bless us oh lord in all our or at least RantWoamn's excessive plain-spokenness:
All RantWoman has been trying to do is get to acceptable Quakerese: RantWoman is seasoning a powerful a need to blurt out that she is having trouble telling the difference between legislative pragmatism and institutionalized racism. RantWoman is further discerning leadings on her own and others' behalf.
And in that state of mind what to RantWoman's wondering ears should her media feeds deliver?
Watch, and hold RantWoman and those around her in the Light, for one thing because where RantWoman is led is IMPORTANT.
And to cleanse the brain, a resource
http://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/4-ways-white-people-can-process-their-emotions-without-bringing-the-white-tears/
All RantWoman has been trying to do is get to acceptable Quakerese: RantWoman is seasoning a powerful a need to blurt out that she is having trouble telling the difference between legislative pragmatism and institutionalized racism. RantWoman is further discerning leadings on her own and others' behalf.
And in that state of mind what to RantWoman's wondering ears should her media feeds deliver?
Watch, and hold RantWoman and those around her in the Light, for one thing because where RantWoman is led is IMPORTANT.
And to cleanse the brain, a resource
http://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/4-ways-white-people-can-process-their-emotions-without-bringing-the-white-tears/
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Retirement option: The Baba Yagas' House?
People moving into retirement communities seems to be a thing around rantWoman right now. In appreciation:
The Baba Yagas house in France with the bonus option to stream Radio France in 15 languages
RantWoman is both charmed and perplexed by the thought of a retirement community named after scary witches from Slavic mythology.
(Hell's belles! Put "Baba Yaga" into the search engine of your choosing and see for yourself)
RantWoman is also deeply charmed by the option to listen to radio France in 15 languages.
Bless RantMom's heart. She probably would NOT be deeply charmed by either meme above.
Hold that problem in the Light, for one thing because RantMom's rent is going up and that is nudging other conversations back to the forefront.
The Baba Yagas house in France with the bonus option to stream Radio France in 15 languages
RantWoman is both charmed and perplexed by the thought of a retirement community named after scary witches from Slavic mythology.
(Hell's belles! Put "Baba Yaga" into the search engine of your choosing and see for yourself)
RantWoman is also deeply charmed by the option to listen to radio France in 15 languages.
Bless RantMom's heart. She probably would NOT be deeply charmed by either meme above.
Hold that problem in the Light, for one thing because RantMom's rent is going up and that is nudging other conversations back to the forefront.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Moises Gomez: Dangerous Journeys; US Sponsored Border Militarization June 2, 7 pm
The Seattle chapter of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador will be hosting Moíses Gómez from El Salvador.
Please join us Thursday, June 2 at 7:00 PM for a community presentation on border militarization featuring Moíses Gómez along with panelists from Northwest Detention Center Resistance and Casa Latina Workers Defense Council!
See below for details. Please share this message with your networks! Thank you!
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What: Dangerous Journeys: How US-Sponsored Border Militarization in Meso-America is Fueling a Human Rights Crisis
When: Thursday, June 2nd, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Seattle CISPES will be hosting Moíses Gómez in conversation with NWDC Resistance, Casa Latina's Workers Defense Council, and other area migrant justice groups, on the root causes of forced migration and the impact of US-sponsored border militarization on the region. Come learn how Salvadoran and Seattle groups are resisting detention, deportation, and militarization, and join the fight for the lives and rights of migrants!
Mr. Gómez is a professor and researcher on the Multi-Disciplinary Migration Team at the Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador, where he focuses on the experiences of deported day laborers and "the gaps that exist in the institutions that attend to migrants that have been forcibly displaced by violence.”
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Watch for further emails or RSVP to the facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/Tuesday, May 24, 2016
ODE TO JOY: All Parts, by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Should anyone be needing an official midafternoon earworm
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Mother's Day: the after-action report
The Seattle wing of the Rant Family was supposed to gather for pho and to celebrate Mothers' Day. This did not exactly occur but it's time for...the next amazing episodeS of
Family Medical Angst, the eyeball edition.
Please understand there are VAST opportunities for Family Medical Angst, including a thing RantWoman needs to try again about. Here though RantWoman will concentrate only on Family Medical Angst, the Eyeball Edition.
Although RantWoman TRIES to remember to take care of herself, this time RantWoman, sigh, has to share the limelight.
Over Christmas the Rant Family gathered. RantWoman and Brother-in-Law got to chatting. Somewhere along the way, Brother-in-Law shared that something big and cloudy in his eye is bothering him. From the symptoms ....
It could be a detached retina.
Or it could be a cataract.
Or....
RantWoman determined that it was not acutely painful and that Brother-in_law had noticed the problem FOR MONTHS but had only brought it up to Little Sister the night before. Still, the problem definitely needed more medical expertise than could be found in RantMom's apartment. However, there was nothing screamingly urgent enough to summon 911 and Go Straight to the ER, Do Not Pass Go, Do not collect $200.
Okayyyy, RantWoman CHILL OUT and see what happens.
Easter happens.
RantWoman learns that Brother-in-Law has seen a doctor. The giant cloudy thing in the eye is a cataract. A specialist who meets the family language criteria AND accepts the available insurance is needed.
Progress?
Now comes Mothers' Day.
Happy Mother's Day.
Around the RantFamily, such occasions go better with food.
Pho was on the menu. The pizza. Then plan C.
RantWoman SOooo hopes that the Family will have found a doctor. And MAYBE even that surgery has been scheduled. The question did not actually come up.. Instead,
there was some chatter of the vile intestinal crud that came with Irrepressible Nephew back from a church trip to Mexico to build houses
and... (just hold in the Light without details) meanwhile RantWoman will TRY to get herself motivated...
Family Medical Angst, the eyeball edition.
Please understand there are VAST opportunities for Family Medical Angst, including a thing RantWoman needs to try again about. Here though RantWoman will concentrate only on Family Medical Angst, the Eyeball Edition.
Although RantWoman TRIES to remember to take care of herself, this time RantWoman, sigh, has to share the limelight.
Over Christmas the Rant Family gathered. RantWoman and Brother-in-Law got to chatting. Somewhere along the way, Brother-in-Law shared that something big and cloudy in his eye is bothering him. From the symptoms ....
It could be a detached retina.
Or it could be a cataract.
Or....
RantWoman determined that it was not acutely painful and that Brother-in_law had noticed the problem FOR MONTHS but had only brought it up to Little Sister the night before. Still, the problem definitely needed more medical expertise than could be found in RantMom's apartment. However, there was nothing screamingly urgent enough to summon 911 and Go Straight to the ER, Do Not Pass Go, Do not collect $200.
Okayyyy, RantWoman CHILL OUT and see what happens.
Easter happens.
RantWoman learns that Brother-in-Law has seen a doctor. The giant cloudy thing in the eye is a cataract. A specialist who meets the family language criteria AND accepts the available insurance is needed.
Progress?
Now comes Mothers' Day.
Happy Mother's Day.
Around the RantFamily, such occasions go better with food.
Pho was on the menu. The pizza. Then plan C.
RantWoman SOooo hopes that the Family will have found a doctor. And MAYBE even that surgery has been scheduled. The question did not actually come up.. Instead,
there was some chatter of the vile intestinal crud that came with Irrepressible Nephew back from a church trip to Mexico to build houses
and... (just hold in the Light without details) meanwhile RantWoman will TRY to get herself motivated...
Thursday, May 5, 2016
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