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| Festive Holly and Poinsettia motif |
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Advent onset Telemann - Oboe Sonatas
God has instructed RantWoman that advent is to be observed with the Oboe, baroque or early classical. RantWOman is unclear whether further instructions and Bible readings will be forthcoming. In the meantime, RantWoman hopes this cultivates a spirit of worship.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Rossini Barber of Seville Fantasie for Piano 6 hands at Classical Underg...
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| Christmas Cactus 11 28 2015 |
RantWoman celebrates the email #blackFriday which has lasted weeks already. RantWoman celebrates with an eccentric accumulation of electronic gifts. Enjoy.
The following MIGHT have resulted if the three RantChildren were able to forestall nuclear family meltdown and hold the Siblinghood of Personkind together long enough to
1. Rehearse our 1 piano 6 hands endeavors to concertworthiness
2. Find venues that would book us.
3. Put on concert wear and present ourselves professionally.
RantWoman recommends enjoying this bit from The Barber of Seville instead of waiting around for the RantSiblings.
Friday, November 27, 2015
A Colbert Christmas - Please be patient (Feist)
In observance of National Buy-Nothing Day, with options for those Bad Friends who absolutely MUST buy something. Please by patient!
Sunday, November 22, 2015
The first student sit-in at Princeton in 20 years
RantWoman THOUGHT she was supposed to stay on a sort of linear path involving some basic "do this daily to function" tasks and some work RantWoman would characterize partly as #BlackLivesMatter. RantWoman thought this, but apparently God has other ideas or at least eccentric pre-holiday gifts arriving with the next increment of #christmascactus
RantWoman is interested to learn via eddies in her tweet stream that ever since the black students at Mizzou were able to force out the university president, there has been a wave of protests at a number of colleges: Towson State in MD, the University of North Carolina, a couple others. RantWoman finds it energizing to hear of these protests.
#occupyNassau #PrincetonProtest
Posted in a couple places on Facebook:
Last night when I was following events on a different hashtag, Twitter served me uup a couple items with the tag #OccupyNassau about Princeton students occupying Nassau Hall, at one time the nation's capitol asking Princeton to address Woodrow Wilson's racist legacy and calling for more student space specifically for the Black experience.
On Facebook, the hashtag has a wonderful video of students' statements about why they are participating, a great solidarity statement by Cornel West and several other items I did not interact with.
Other items appear under #PrincetonProtest
My facebook feed includes both other veterans of Nassau Hall sit-ins and lots of people who probably wonder, look you went to Princeton, why did you have to go and sit in too?
It was senior year, an anti-apartheid protest related to divestment questions. Also, my Freshman year anti-apartheid activists held an all-night study-in inside the section of Firestone library that houses government and UN documents. I thought of participating and supported it but did not join in.
So this time I want to show solidarity just by posting this to Facebook.
My freshman year I lived in 1901 hall. I lived in a 3-room suite with two other women. We were told that in the 1800's our suite would have housed one Princeton gentleman and his slave but the custom was to free slaves upon graduation. That legacy is a piece of what one acquires by enrolling in Princeton.
I would not have learned as much about the diversity of African American experience if I had, say, stayed in MT for college. I continue to learn. And I support students urging people to continue to learn, and I think it's probably about darn time people thought about Woodrow Wilson being what one commentator calls "a racist pig, even by the standards of his time."
Student statements, a sampling
Naimah Hakim '16 Black Justice League organizer
Cornel West "Justice is what love looks like in pulbic."
Why students are participating: iffy audio and interesting signs if you can read them
Rev William Barber
Daily Princetoninan: students walk out, occupy Nassau Hall, present demands
Daily Princetonian: Eisgruber and BJL come to agreement
One of the things RantWoman really likes about how this sit-in turned out is a commitment to continued conversation! RantWoman expects we are going to learn / relearn a lot more about Woodrow Wilson. Gotta love that continuing revelation!
Article: Woodrow Wilson was a racist pig even by the standards of his day.
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| Christmas cactus 11 21 2015 |
RantWoman is interested to learn via eddies in her tweet stream that ever since the black students at Mizzou were able to force out the university president, there has been a wave of protests at a number of colleges: Towson State in MD, the University of North Carolina, a couple others. RantWoman finds it energizing to hear of these protests.
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| Tiger in front of Nassau Hall |
#occupyNassau #PrincetonProtest
Posted in a couple places on Facebook:
Last night when I was following events on a different hashtag, Twitter served me uup a couple items with the tag #OccupyNassau about Princeton students occupying Nassau Hall, at one time the nation's capitol asking Princeton to address Woodrow Wilson's racist legacy and calling for more student space specifically for the Black experience.
On Facebook, the hashtag has a wonderful video of students' statements about why they are participating, a great solidarity statement by Cornel West and several other items I did not interact with.
Other items appear under #PrincetonProtest
My facebook feed includes both other veterans of Nassau Hall sit-ins and lots of people who probably wonder, look you went to Princeton, why did you have to go and sit in too?
It was senior year, an anti-apartheid protest related to divestment questions. Also, my Freshman year anti-apartheid activists held an all-night study-in inside the section of Firestone library that houses government and UN documents. I thought of participating and supported it but did not join in.
So this time I want to show solidarity just by posting this to Facebook.
My freshman year I lived in 1901 hall. I lived in a 3-room suite with two other women. We were told that in the 1800's our suite would have housed one Princeton gentleman and his slave but the custom was to free slaves upon graduation. That legacy is a piece of what one acquires by enrolling in Princeton.
I would not have learned as much about the diversity of African American experience if I had, say, stayed in MT for college. I continue to learn. And I support students urging people to continue to learn, and I think it's probably about darn time people thought about Woodrow Wilson being what one commentator calls "a racist pig, even by the standards of his time."
Student statements, a sampling
Naimah Hakim '16 Black Justice League organizer
Cornel West "Justice is what love looks like in pulbic."
Why students are participating: iffy audio and interesting signs if you can read them
Rev William Barber
Daily Princetoninan: students walk out, occupy Nassau Hall, present demands
Daily Princetonian: Eisgruber and BJL come to agreement
One of the things RantWoman really likes about how this sit-in turned out is a commitment to continued conversation! RantWoman expects we are going to learn / relearn a lot more about Woodrow Wilson. Gotta love that continuing revelation!
Article: Woodrow Wilson was a racist pig even by the standards of his day.
Friday, November 20, 2015
Gratitude, the Pumpkin Patch, Faithfulness
RantWoman really really is trying to cultivate gratitude but other things keep showing up in the pumpkin patch too, kind of like thesilly pilgrim hat no pumkin RantWoman has ever seen really needs.
Take the old hymn Great is Thy Faithfulness. RantWoman made the mistake of clicking on one link. There were SO many owww's in the performance worming their way into RantWoman's earworm file, bless us oh lord and forgive RantWoman excessive candor, that it took RantWoman listening to THREE other versions to clear her head.
And never mind about gendered language.
RantWoman is not sure whether it is good or not to have kind of a built-in filter that goes to music sometimes in preference to arguing theology in the words.
RantWoman had to STOP, though, for fear of wandering into the realms of islamophobia and bad theology bilge she is trying to distract herself from
The Oww version is at the bottom.
Babbi Mason, First Baptist Church Jacksonville FL with warm intro
Rev. Rance Allen
Cannot figure out who but at least there is a little more arrangement
Went to #1 on iTunes but such an off earworm that it took 3 other versions to clear my head!
Take the old hymn Great is Thy Faithfulness. RantWoman made the mistake of clicking on one link. There were SO many owww's in the performance worming their way into RantWoman's earworm file, bless us oh lord and forgive RantWoman excessive candor, that it took RantWoman listening to THREE other versions to clear her head.
And never mind about gendered language.
RantWoman is not sure whether it is good or not to have kind of a built-in filter that goes to music sometimes in preference to arguing theology in the words.
RantWoman had to STOP, though, for fear of wandering into the realms of islamophobia and bad theology bilge she is trying to distract herself from
The Oww version is at the bottom.
Babbi Mason, First Baptist Church Jacksonville FL with warm intro
Rev. Rance Allen
Cannot figure out who but at least there is a little more arrangement
Went to #1 on iTunes but such an off earworm that it took 3 other versions to clear my head!
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Nadia Bolz Weber, Annoying People, Sunsets, God wanting to be known
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| Nadia Bolz Weber on God wanting to be known more in annoying peoplethan in sunsets |
RantWoman is not quite sure she has enough tatoos to get here. MAYBE tatoos would help?
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