Post a story about working with AFSC in preparation for the AFSC centennial

The centennial of the American Friends Service Committee is approaching.

Consider this an invitation to post reflections:

Post a story about working with AFSC

Still Time To Register for the Pacific NW Quaker Women's Theology Conference

Shamelessly reprinted verbatim from RantWoman's email. RantWoman has attended this event a number of times and even served on the planning committee. RantWoman is not clear of a call to attend this year, but would love to talk about it with women who have never attended and are interested. But do not dadle. Check the registration deadline!

Pacific Northwest Women's Theology Conference

Attention Quaker Women!!!     The Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference begins  June 15th and  it’s time to register http://www.pnwquakerwomen.org/conference/   Something New is Coming   Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference is doing things a little different ly this year, and we hope change will re-invigorate us all. For starters, we have scheduled bible study every day, but it will not be like any bible study most of us have  ever experienced.  Multiple ways of reading scripture abound in the world coming down to us from many religious and spiritual traditions, and we will be invited to experience some of them interactively. Another difference is that we have invited Friends in Residence who will present at the plenaries, both separately and as a duet.  If my experience of them is any indication, there will be a blend of presentation, contemplation and interaction. In the past, the conference has had several presenters from among Meetings and Churches giving ministry on separate topics. This year, instead, the planning committee has chosen Friends in Residence, partly because they are a resource within our respective yearly meetings, and partly because several of us have been led by them in Way of the Spirit retreats and know they are a great fit.  The best part, though, is the integrative aspect of having a pair of people, one a Liberal Friend, and another, an Evangelical Friend who have worked together for a number of years in spiritual direction.  They’ve taken our theme/sub-themes and designed their presentations around them. The Friends in Residence will also lead the Bible Study daily, alternating leaders. For those who haven’t been on the website since they registered, you will notice that the deadlines for registration and reflection papers have been pushed back 15+ days, so please encourage another woman to sign up.  There is still some scholarship money earmarked for Evangelical Friends under 35, and some other scholarship money that has a broader eligibility.

RIP Mr. Attack Receptionist?

RantWoman thinks Mr. Attack Receptionist has probably departed to other realms. RantWoman ardently hopes he did so in the company of the people who knew him best and loved him most. RantWoman especially hopes his native heritage was honored by those in attendance because he was very proud of it.

 

Here are a collection of blog items most of which include some kind of reference to Mr. Attack Receptionist.

Remembrances of Mr. Attack Receptionist

 RantWoman is humble about the fact that "Mr. Attack Receptionist" is almost certainly not the most respectful way to refer to anyone ever. Hold that problem in the Light. RantWoman is also a little bit proud of helping facilitate a little bit more positive environment than came about with Mr. and Mrs. Attack Receptionist's ferocious commitment to their roles.  RantWoman would NOT have minded managing to get herself paid more for her contribution to this evolution, but sometimes it just makes sense to pay people who know what they are doing.

 

But back to the reasons RantWoman thinks Mr. Attack Receptionist has probably decamped to other realms:

 

--RantWoman became aware via Facebook of Mr. Attack Receptionist entering hospice and moving to a care facility further away from the Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing but closer to family and schoolmates.

 

--RantWoman sometimes knows and sometimes does not know why particular old blog items sometimes suddenly show up in the top of RantWoman's blog statistics, but one about Mr. Attack Receptionist showed up this week.

 

--RantWoman realized that she has not seen Facebook traffic from Mr. Attack Receptionist in quite awhile so RantWoman put Mr. Attack Receptionist’s full and distinctive name into the search bar. Almost nothing. Certainly nothing current. Zip. Nada, except for a blurry picture of a smiling boy in a wheelchair that RantWoman thinks must date from his childhood.

 

Okay then. Rest in Peace, Mr. Attack Receptionist, or if you are not gone, know that RantWoman remembers you with great respect on many grounds despite the impossible email and the smoking and …

 

RantWoman will store the topic of tidy handling of one’s digital legacy in her mental filing cabinet of things a Quaker IT committee might consult with other Meeting or Yearly Meeting committees about, but it’s Good Friday and that ain’t gonna happen right now.

 

RIP Mr. Attack Receptionist. RantWoman further apologizes for not being able to find any kind of picture she wants to use. RIP even without the photo.

Bad Friend does Holy Week and There is No God at CPAC | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

RantWoman spent Palm Sunday meeting for worship meditating about whether a message for Holy week needed to come out of her mouth. The answer apparently was no. Most of the rest of the messages RantWoman hoped to knit together have vanished from RantWoman's memory. RantWoman was going to knit the thoughts on her mind into the message stream.Anything remaining has gotten dammed up in a mental logjam about one specific message, a message that gets its own post.

The message that did not make it out of RantWoman's mouth was about all the characters in the Holy Week story who did not exactly live up to what one might hope from them, and maybe how that is the point, the holiness of the story. The message most assureadly is still in the air at least around RantWoman, but now it's Good Friday. RantWoman has some neighborhood topical options to go to CHURCH, but work beckons. Beckons?  Quoting a former RantWoman work colleague, Jesus is dead and you expect me to WORK?

Well, yes, sort of. The world is all mixed up politically. Jesus is officially dead on his cross after running afoul of the powers that be and for RantWoman's trouble, God has served up the temptation to post the following item about an ardent atheist at the CPAC conventionand to let her readers make of it what they will! Bless us Oh God and all divinely twisted sense of humor.

Bicycle Face CD release party Sunday March 20

Dear friends and beloved Lavender and Gray community,

 

It fills my heart with so much joy and excitement to share with you that the band Bicycle Face is playing a concert celebrating the release of their first album this Sunday, March 20! 

 

Bicycle Face is made up of three amazing Young Adult Friend-types you may know: Hollis, Roxanne, and Evan! These three are incredibly talented and they make beautiful music together. You can check them out on their Bandcamp website:  bicycleface.bandcamp.com

Please come out and join us for a wonderful night of music and community. There will be a potluck at 5:30 PM at UFM, and the music starts at 7 PM. Kids are welcome!! 

Bicycle Face's CD, The Wonders of Female Strength!, will be available for sale. :) 

🌠University Friends Meeting🌟

4001 9th Ave NE

💗Sunday, March 20th💗

Potluck at 5:30 PM

🌈Show at 7 PM🌈

Really frank Marco Rubio comments about ....

Hallelujah! RantWoman is inspired that SOMEONE has started articulating criticism of ...  RantWoman even finds MUCH to agree with in this video. RantWoman also finds considerable material that blames everyone else for something all parties have contributed to. RantWoman especially thinks it's about darn time that SOMEONE thinks about how to draw the best out of everyone and how to weave functionaligy back into our political life.

So GO MARCO RUBIO even though this is near enough to make RantWoman a Rubio voter, but HALLELUJAH for the pieces RantWoman unambiguously unites with.

Duck and Cover | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

RantWoman has a new comic inspiration, Samantha Bee. True:

--This video contains language that RantWoman supposes she is expected to wash her brain out for even witnessing, let ALONE posting it atop her electronic spiritual compost heap.

--RantWoman does, despite the language find a number of ideas to unite with. Can anyone point them out? They have to do with creative ways to try to deal with dangerous situations.

--RantWoman admits to posting this while the #WALeg winds down its regular session sine die and gets sent off to special session detention until it finishes a supplemental budget.

--RantWoman imagines that some will brand her a horrible harsh insensitive Bitch for even THINKING of making Light of this Very Serious Subject.

--RantWoman thinks this post is POSSIBLY a "Duck and Cover" response to a certain message from Meeting for Worship last week; RantWoman hopes that her pleas for "Deal with it NOW because RantWoman cannot have a civil conversation" have been heard.

--Update: RantWoman has had a conversation satisfying her that an increment of "Deal With it NOW" has occurred, but part of that reality for RantWoman was discovering some more thickets in her own emotional landscape. Bleah.





Is this the new Normal???

RantWoman ardently hopes not.