Gifts from Fourth Saturday Worship

The nuggets from Worship and after worship

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.

The Bells of Nassau Hall

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.

RantWoman's efforts to create the space by posting in chat. 

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?

Please consider sharing something about yourself with Rename or in the chat

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. 

If people join by phone I will read chat items as they appear taking acar to leave space between all messages.

I have enabled automated captioning, imperfect as it is.

Let us settle into worship