Observance of a beloved relative's birthday and a bit of story and geography from the life.
Eugene Friends Meetinghouse has achieved all-gender restrooms.
The Leonard Cohen quote about Ring the Bells that still can ring and cracks where light comes in Be prepared for RantWoman to speak of bells that go thud in a carillon of bells that all ring together.
RantWoman needed the bells to help hold the 275th anniversary of the founding of Princeton. Nassau Hall, the older of two administration buildings, during the period when Princeton was called the College of New Jersey, briefly served as the US Capitol. RantWoman feels no call to look up the history of Nassau Hall, only to note that the bells toll every hour day and night and at times for special occasions.. They are far enough away from dorms that only the lightest sleeper would be disturbed--except when students are holding a protest encampment on the front lawn demanding that the University divest from companies that do business in South Africa.
RantWoman was at Princeton during a time when many campus activists advocated in various ways for the university to divest from companies that do business in South Africa. RantWoman remembers neither what sparked the sleep-in nor why it ended, though the latter may have had something to do with finals week. RantWoman only remembers waking up every hour all night. This far past all that, RantWoman thinks of South Africa through the voices of Trevor Noah and Duduzele Mtshazo. RantWoman also has to concede that she nowadays has to take better care of her sleep or try to take better care. But if a Bong- bong- bong sonic motif shows up, try to listen for the language of the story.
Posting this much text in chat when it has to be reposted every time a new person enters is a bad idea. The text has to be posted in two parts and RantWoman did not figure out a slick way with her screen reader to remember what she had just posted. RantWoman said this is an experiment. RantWoman also can speak of many accessibility reasons to treat the chat as worship space. However, RantWoman will think about how to Do Better Next Time.
Welcome to Fourth Saturday Worship, an experiment about many things
Queries:
Humans have assumed stewardship of the power and glory of nature. What is glorious about trees whose roots rear up our sidewalks and gigantic storms?
What comes to mind from the word touchpoints?
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Examples: preferred pronouns, the watershed or native land where your are based, Quaker geography.
Please treat the chat like worship space. If something rises that seems to belong in chat please trust yourself about offering it but please do not overdo it or start conversations until close of worship.
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Let us settle into worship
Okay God, what is RantWoman supposed to post for today's #NDEAM binge blog entry?
God said, first paraphrase Leonard Cohen Ring the Bells that Still need to be Rung
And then play some Nassau Hall Bells
RantWoman, WHERE are you going with this?
Yes, sometimes one starts to write and goes where things go.
Disability and Religion are two challenge zones in the world of employment.
Today for instance, RantWoman's email streams abound in discord.
--Should one delete everything to do with disability from a resume until it's absolutely necessary to disclose in order to request an accommodation?
--Should one plaster all of one's advocacy, awards, offices held and tools used all over one's resume.
Views are DIVIDED! Ditto for many oher affiliations.
Okay, who the heck gets to call themselves blind anyway? Readers interested in a romp through this part of Planet RantWoman's linguistic landscape are invited to leave pleas for such as comments. Suffice it to say, RantWoman is probably not going to contribute this essay by a US theologian and activist Ched Myers, of whom RantWoman had never heard until her blog roll served up On the "blind" leading the "Blind"
RantWoman, you're losing us.
Yeah. And in a spirit of let one's life speak, RantWoman invites readers to use their own search engines.
If one is allergic to getting run over every day is a good day to #DressLikeATrafficCone . Even better if it's orange and black day. Happy birthday #princeton. #walkability #princetonRising #Princeton275 pic.twitter.com/AlM5kmKeg8
— Dorene Cornwell (@DoreneFC) October 22, 2021
RantWoman means to celebrate the 275th Anniversary of the charter of the College of New Jersey which 100 years later became Princeton University.
RantWoman means to craft a thank you letter, fully acknowledging that some of the high points of RantWoman's Princeton experience definitely may not look like thank you letters.
RantWoman means to offer piquant observations about gender equity, women's studies, women in STEM., coeducation, and lore about gender issues from before coeducation
RantWoman should probably have a lot to say about US racial history, area studies, humanities
RantWoman has things to say about student sit-ins, eclectic academic choices, famous alumni and now-famous classmates. Also great sit-ins of yesteryear, cat-themed civil disobedience, work study at the computer center...
But none of that is going to happen tonight,
RantWoman directs readers to today's #NDEAM post from her other blog
Next, cool things that have happened since RantWoman graduated:
--The Coop were RantWoman lived celebrated its 40th anniversary a couple years ago!
--The restrooms in the math building tower are all now unisex. When RantWoman was in school there were women's restrooms on floors 1-3 where there were offices and classrooms, floor 8, and floor 13, a top floor meeting space.
--There is now a whole certificate program in translation and interpreting
--A Student uprising led the University to agree to take a deeper look at the institutions racial history and in the meantime to rename buildings to remove the name of Woodrow Wilson.
And that's all she wrote for tonight.
Happy Birthday Princeton on behalf of That Cat who also sends a shout-out to all campus cats everywhere.#Princeton275 #BlackCats #CatsOfTwitter .
— Amb. Thwack Vaxxed & Masked (@AmbassadorThwa1) October 22, 2021
That Cat also says the human better not come near her with any more orange ridiculousness pic.twitter.com/E7mVM6GIdd
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| A contemplative pumpkin image from my phone's gif library |
The library branch where we have sometimes met in person has not yet reopened its meeting spaces, but a link is offered here in general celebration of libraries. Montlake Branch of Seattle Public Library
Since Fourth Saturday Worship continues to be virtual, I am specifically sharing the invitation by email with some Friends I have connected with. Please let me know if you would like to stay on a mailing list.
Fourth Saturday worship is an hour or so of expectant worship and then time to comment further on queries and then time for further worship sharing or visiting.
On my mind this month are touch points, story arcs and weather modelling. I am curious what lLght comes to Friends but here is more of what comes to me.
Check this blog for a Coming Soon post about today being the 275th anniversary of the founding of Princeton with many touch points and story arcs.
Happy Birthday Princeton post from RantWoman's other blog
For weather modelling see: Cliff Mass on the strongest coastal cyclone in NW history The science fascinates me. The graphics drive me crazy. Judging by the article, it seems unlikely that this worship time will be disrupted by major pacific storms, but in case it is please consider this an invitation to worship as you are able.
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It COMPLETELY warms RantWoman's heart to see this announcement!
RantWoman is not sure this exact meeting will fit into RantWoman's schedule. Plus the QuakerSpeak video talks about chiseling away however one can. One of RantWoman's ways of chiseling is to support organizations such as Disability Rights WA because they do very powerful #DisabilityJustice work around incarcerated (and otherwise institutionalized) people with disabilities, another category of people vastly overrepresented in US prisons and detention centers.
Quaker Action in the West on
Prisons and Detention Centers
Mass incarceration is a central pillar of institutional racism in the United States. It undermines children, pillages savings, and tears families apart, while dehumanizing over two million people. If we are committed to ending racism, we must be committed to ending this system.Many Quakers around the country are involved in prison service. They founded the Alternatives to Violence Project and are active there and in the restorative justice movement. They work to eliminate the death penalty. They write letters to prisoners, hold worship services in prisons, and visit people on Death Row. Some are also involved in political advocacy to change the prison system, stop the school to prison pipeline, and restore civil rights and provide opportunities for returning citizens. Two major Quaker organizations have adopted ending this system as long-term goals – AFSC as “prison abolition” and FCNL as “eliminating mass incarceration.”
Join us to hear summaries of what some Friends in the West are doing in and about prisons and detention centers – and share your own experiences.
Our focus will be on detention systems, including immigrant detention.
Monday, October 25, 2021
90 minutes starting at
6:30 PM Pacific Time = 7:30 PM Mountain TimePlease click here to register for this event.
Registration is not required, but it will help us to continue sharing information among Quakers activists focused on prisons and detention centers.
Click here on October 25, 2021, to join this event.
Meeting ID: 288 711 054
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Click here to watch the QuakerSpeak video: "How Quakers Can Help End Mass Incarceration."
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