Footwashing?

 RantWoman, think of foot washing. Just THINK of it. Thinking of it worked for me.

RantWoman and a merry band of mostly Quaker Bible scholars have been amblings through the gospels of Mark and John, but the "think of footwashing" advice came from a different direction.

Footwashing? 

(Please note: RantWoman has decided to go image-free. Readers who need images are invited to use their imaginations.)

Will anyone even know what it refers to? 

Let Dr. Internet 'splain: I give you NCPedia The practice does not occur only in the South

But I'm NOT Jesus. Besides what if they just think "yuck, gross, weird? Besides it's the 21st century and around here most of us have modern plumbinc."

So, what if I just get them all pedicures instead? Wait. Noxious chemicals. Economically precarious immigrant labor? Ummmm

#POTUS45 Tells Republicans Not To Vote If ...

We interrupt our ritual string of #NDEAM disability themed  harangues to celebrate...

Can this be an answer to prayers????

It's not enough that the FORMER President and his minions are getting their own supporters KILLED by steeping us all in anti-vax madness. Now FORMER President Orange Foolius (Wait. How do you say that in Quakerese?) is telling people who have drunk his flavor of Koolaid NOT TO VOTE????



God works in mysterious ways?

Lord have mercy on us all!

White Cane Safety day DANCE PARTY, but first....

Readers who are really, really REALLY impatient to visit Ambassador Thwack's options for #WhiteCaneDay dance parties. just scroll down. Readers game for more visits to Planet RantWoman, please keep reading.

First, the newest QuakerSpeak video.
Understanding Quaker Faith Through the Journal of George Fox


Yeah, yeah, there are the parts about submission to a power greater than oneself, a really useful concept sometimes, and seeking and guidance. The thing RantWoman is most in awe of though: GLASSES GLARE. RantWoman deals all the time with photographers and videographers who want to wipe out the issue. Glasses are just as much a part of RantWoman's picture as Ambassador Thwack or as a wheelchair is for many people RantWoman knows.

On the road between sidewalks and  #ClimateChange

ODOT Observes Pedestrian Safety Month with a White Cane Safety Day Podcast

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White Cane Basics from Vision Australia

Perkins School info about White Canes, via the hadley School Twitter

@VisionAustralia is hosting a dance party. RantWoman failed to collect info about catching it on  video.

CCLVI Low Vision Coffee Hour: 11am ET, 8am PT, 5am HT

It's White Cane Safety Day! The white cane is a symbol of independence to many. What does it mean to you? Come and learn about the first ever National White Cane Safety Day. How can we use this day to educate the public about this helpful and useful tool? Be sure to attend and share your favorite cane story.

Sponsored by Council of Citizens with Low Vision International https://cclvi.info

Join the call:

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One tap mobile: +13126266799,,82950768948#,,,,*225843#

Phone: +13126266799

Meeting ID: 829 5076 8948

Passcode: 225843

And finally the dance party

ACB Get Up & Get Moving Dance Party: 2pm-8pm ET, 11am-5pm PT, 8am-2pm HT

Join us in Zoom or on ACB Media 4 (Café) for the Get up and Get Moving Dance Party to celebrate White Cane Day. We will be playing chart toppers to inspire you to dance, starting with the 1960s, moving a decade each hour until we reach today's hits. Great music, fun facts, trivia and prizes, and special entertainment will all be part of this six hour event. Help us celebrate ACB's 60th year and the importance of White Cane Day the ACB way!

2pm ET: The 60s with facilitators: Dan Dillon and Tony Stephens, DJ: Darrow Loucks, and host: Sheila Young;

3pm ET: The 70s with facilitator: Dan Spoone, DJ: Darrow Loucks, and host: Cindy Hollis;

4pm ET: The 70s with facilitator: Leslie Spoone, DJ: Darrow Loucks, and host: Monica Svopa;

5pm ET: The 90s with facilitators: Tom Tobin and Sheila Styron, DJ: Larry Gassman, and host: Belinda Collins;

6pm ET: The 2000s with facilitator: Terry Suarez, DJ: Larry Gassman, and host: Kolby Garrison;

7pm ET: The 2010s with the Get Up and Get Moving Committee, DJ: Darrow Loucks, and hosts: Cindy Hollis and Kolby Garrison.

Sponsored by ACB Get Up & Get Moving www.acb.org/GUGM<http://www.acb.org/GUGM>

Listen on ACB Media 5: www.acbmedia.org/5<http://www.acbmedia.org/5>

Say to your Amazon device, "ask ACB Media to play 5."

Join the call:

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Phone: +13126266799

Meeting ID: 848 1205 9141

Passcode: 909704

If you catch it in time, 6 hours of American Council of the Blind White Cane day Dance Party

Blue flu vs miscreant squatters

This post is dedicated to every police abolitionist absolutist who reads this blog or is running for office in Seattle who might be willing to engage in, say , a strong women / strong Friends catfight with RantWoman about police accountability, resources, community living and pandemia.. #pandemic

Part one: more provocative thoughts from Beau.

Cops with "less lethal" weapons are no substitutefor a functioning mental health system

Closer to home we have an exciting blend of

--pandemic themed staff retreat "for safety," staff turnover, buck passing

--mention of low staffing levels, long response times, run around by both public and contracted dispatchers

--drug addled miscreant squatters with no respect for anything including themselves busy terrorizing.. some of whom are too terrified of retaliation even to call the cops..

It will not be only police who clean up the mess. Right now the watchwords are document, document, document

And hold in the Light

and miss me please with the "abolish the police" rhetoric.

Maybe when we come out the other side, a few of the druggie miscreants will be able to say "getting busted was the best thing to happen to me."

Jesus, movement building, peace with policing and prayer breakfasts?

RantWoman, WHY are you putting all these items in the same post? 

Because God tells me to?

Because God is versatile and speaks in different ways

Because I know darn well an editor and making 3 blog posts might be more on point, but I need to celebrate abundance. 

Because RantWoman does not want to lose the meat of the content having an extravagant tirade about WTF real accessibility means and why explaining over and over all the dimensions of access / accessibillity to one's faith community has a lot in common with the average workplace and therefore this item also qualifies as observance of #NDEAM 

An exhortation and provocative piece from email

Quoting Friend Joe Snyder of Multonomah Meeting because the email is highly germane to the conversation:

Dear Friends,

   I just suffered through a large meeting of folks wanting to improve (or in some cases perhaps abolish) policing in Portland where there was considerable discord and disrespect for others.  Then along comes this message from Wess Daniels which seems to address some of it, and certainly addresses some issues we have as Friends.  It is a long message, but I found it worthwhile, and I would encourage you to share it widely as yousee fit.

Wess Daniels on Quaker exceptionalism, Jesus and Movement Building

Peace and Policing: Friends Journal article

From recent RantWoman commentary on an article she came across in Friends Journal

I came across this piece tonight.

When Peace Requires Police

I like it a lot. I like that it includes voices of color. I like that it seems better grounded than other recent items which have crossed RantWoman's path. 

Because RantWoman has wound up on the ChangeWashington Email list

RantWoman generally prefers to buck the trend of algorithms giving her only one flavor of thinking about anything. RantWoman is posting part of a fundraising appeal verbatim in all its cringeworthy glory mainly as an excuse to also post some protest comments on the other side of the video.

Friends— According to Change Washington adviser and former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, Seattle is at the precipice. In her words, city leadership will determine whether we “turn and keep [Seattle] the top-tier world class city that it is or if we’re going to just let mayhem and destruction take us in a different direction.” Change Washington is excited to share with you the first of a series of videos to be released in the coming weeks that feature Chief Carmen Best. Take a moment to watch Chief Best as she explains in her own words some of her motivations for resigning and her thoughts on the upcoming November election. Consider supporting Change Washington’s partnership with Chief Best by investing in our Chief Carmen Best Public Safety Initiative. Donations will keep Chief Best as the face of public safety in our region as Change WA holds public officials accountable through focused and relentless communication infrastructure. Click here to make a donation today! Next week, Change Washington will release more from Chief Best on the police staffing crisis and constructive police reforms. You can support Change Washington’s partnership with Chief Carmen Best to make Seattle a safer and more livable city by donating to the Chief Carmen Best Public Safety Initiative here.

RantWoman means to write a more thoughtful piece about upcoming local elections but some cringeworthy themes.

This wing of the public is sick of police officers who are dawdling about getting vaccinated and RantWoman has particular scorn for officers who won't wear masks when asked 3 times by Harborview ER nurses.

Much of the public is sick of MANY forms of over policing including dumping all manner of "less than lethal" chemicals and projectiles all over neighborhoods. This wing of the public is completely unsympathetic to pleas for more resources if one of the things more money will be used for is resupply all the noxious tools overused during the past year's protests. 

This wing of the public is sick of what one city attorney categorizes as misdemeanor court full of attempts to police poverty and disability.

RantWoman means to consult one of her walking encyclopedia services for some estimate of where the social safety net presently is because RantWoman's instinct is NOT to give the police more money but to do more about the problems some want to police our way out of. 

This wing of the public would like to inspire an able journalist or two to look at, well, how much exactly does it cost to feed and maintain any hand-me-down equipment offered local police departments as side effects of the last 20 years of war.

Prayer breakfasts?

RantWoman, you almost forgot about prayer breakfasts. Prayer breakfasts at their best can draw people of good will with diverse points of view together in an exercise in shared civicpiety. Do you think you stand any chance of even getting invited Uhhh

The bench is back! And so is glass in the bus shelter

RantWoman, it was a GORGEOUS sunny fall day. You had a delightful physical therapy appointment and came home with revived enthusiasm for exercise s that can even be done during Zoom.

So WHY ya gotta be all...?

RantWoman was thinking about stewardship--and departed Friends and nonprofit realities. 

One departed Friend, EXTREMELY Difficult Talented Musician Friend is on RantWoman's mind in connection with a non-Quaker self-advocacy organization and officer responsibilities and things one ought to take care of before one departs for other realms. Extremely Gifted Musician Friend served on Facilities committee at a time when there were almost no other volunteers. RantWoman understands that his obsessive and imperious style brought just as much happiness (NOT!) on facilities committee as at the self-advocacy nonprofit. RantWoman wonders both what would make facilities committee a more enjoyable experience and whether somehow Extremely Talented Musician Friend ever found performers able to handle his style.  Being able to accept rather than fend off help would not have been terrible either, but Facilities Committee still...beckons

The other departed longtime attender Friend was a real estate agent who served on Finance committee and attended the quieter of two Meetings for Worship. RantWoman finds herself curious about when movements of the holy spirit intersect with the day to day work of Finance committee. Longtime Attender Friend was part of one RantWoman household home purchase. Longtime Attender Friend kept trying to interest RantWoman's household, were no one at the time had a car in locations that only had bus service during peak hours on weekdays. Probably it's just as well that RantWoman's idiot detector shorted out, went silent, and sent RantWoman out looking in RantWoman's neighborhood on her own. RantWoman is reasonably calm about other moments arising from the home purchase but does honor both real estate agent awareness gaps and the general question of movements of the Holy Spirit on Finance committee.

Speaking of stewardship and a tenant RantWoman connected with meeting

Current Scrabble Club status

But back to the day's walk. The weather was amazing, the perfect season to be trying to walk RantWoman's way through a seething mound of resentments

For some reason or no reason obvious to RantWoman the sunny day made RantWoman think of a First Day a few weeks before the Go Away and Only Come Back When People DIE edict was issued. RantWoman was at the Meetinghouse late after worship. RantWoman thinks she may have retreated to the library. There were still people in the kitchen cleaning up after coffee hour. RantWoman does not remember why she stayed late but when she emerged from whatever she was doing, every single door in the place was wide open. No one else was around. No one had even attempted the usual close up process. RantWoman did all the pieces she knew to do. 

RantWoman remembers not being able to secure one door but did close the gate, go home and send a tartly worded email several directions. Note RantWoman's detractors would probably say "spammed the known universe." RantWoman's reward, besides the aforementioned "Go Away and Only Come Back when People DIE" edict was at least getting to preview a greatly improved and versy specific list of closing up procedures.  

The sunday morning fortress effect. Don't be late

What is all that trying to teach:

And more importantly, RantWoman WHY ya gotta splatter all that all over your blog?

Why is a metaphysical question. Just please keep holding the whole soap operate in the Light.

Besides, once one makes it up a bumpy tree-root tangled sidewalk to the nearest bus stop. look, look!

Never mind the graffiti.
There is glass
back in the bus shelter

Some days, one should
just enjoy the graffiti

The bench is back!
Even better than glass

Just breathe.
Celebrate the trees and clouds.
Then get along with the business
of buying cat litter

Where have all the homeless people gone and when is RantWoman pro-homelessness?

The original save date of this post was September 26, conveniently the same month an Amazon Fresh store opened in RantWoman's neighborhood. RantWoman thinks she penned this partly in connection with a police blotter item about someone waving a gun near the Walgreens across the street from the Amazon Fresh store.

It's almost as if there are some light rail stations opening in one zone where RantWoman travels frequently and a well-known shopping entity is trying to make a go of it in another of RantWoman's frequently traveled zones. In BOTH cases, the number of sketchy looking people hanging out in the vicinity of .. is WAY down. RantWoman has no opinion beyond the observations. 

In other homelessness news,   RantWoman wants to thank both Mayor Durkan and Gov. Inslee for extending eviction mortoria

Gov. Inslee extends eviction moratorium

RantWoman is also finding it difficult to have ANY sympathy for gun toting miscreant squatters. RantWoman does not in the least lament the following police blotter item. Miscreant squatters gun play draws police call  RantWoman does note that "eviction moratorium is, on the building grapevine, cited as one reason the miscreant squatters persist. RantWoman is relieved to learn that the phrase "eviction mortatorium" includeds provisions to Deal With.

Let us just leave things at that fornow.