Purple Chicken Presente with FGC Gathering evening video postcards

 They're HERE. A link to a single page with links for all the event plenary events and to the morning bible study days.

FGC 2021 Gathering Evening Plenaries and Daily Bible study

The Fluffy purple chicken
still with the same Mocha mug

The Fluffy Purple Chicken, RantWoman's visual standin for Divine presence and elder for her month of almost nonstop Zoom events has  not exactly invited RantWoman to opine. RantWoman decided to trust her Light anyway. For full Light to arrive RantWoman will have to revisit the videos again but a few postcard-sized notes.

June 28th, Lisa Graustein. 

Sometimes Artists talking about their craft are deeply inspiring. Sometimes. RantWoman needs to hold the point in the lisghtand listen again.

June 30thL Niyonu Spann and the Niyoni singers.

RantWoman likes the singing a lot. RantWoman remembers really wanting to capture some pithy things in the chat but that did not happen. This clip is only 5 minutes of a presentation of more than an hour. There was an interruption in the middle that sounded to RantWoman more like an attender's technological glitch. RantWoman's screen reader offered RantWoman's never sleeping inner tech support nerd a window into first a locked meeting, a concept which sounds sort of police state, the sounds of tech troubleshooting tests and then the relief of hearing names read as people were again able to enter the Meeting. RantWoman's instinct in such high visibility stress moments is to life up the techies, to offer prayers for a swift pathway to solution.

July 1, Clinton Pettus and Friends

Clinton Pettus is an African American Friend, now a member of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. He spoke of many moments of lived experience. He also spoke of the Trust Circles Baltimore Yearly Meeting has been working with as a path to talk about racism. RantWoman means to look up more information about trust circles. The other interesting moment was Friends speaking of their own encounters with how race matters are spoken of the the US. RantWoman was struck by a woman from India who said she never thought about race ir "BIPLC" until she came to the US.

July 2 Tara Houska

Line 3 protests. Water. Powerful statistcs RantWoman needs to listen to again, Passion.