As PResident Elect Statement for IDPDD; We Are Disability Justice and Community Care Conference

Someone, Sinter Klas, Santa Claus, All Hail the might search engine is strewing RantWoman's info streams with material related to the UN International Persons with Disabilities Day

Statement of President Elect Biden on #IDPDD

Impressive set of choices to make the site easier to interact with visually. Also nicely described seal graphic. To be honest, RantWoman is is extremely relieved., Cross fingers and pray to all that is holy, the President Elect will shortly be displacing the current occupant of the White House. If we are lucky there will be somewhat less cringe-worthy media content about whatever the Soon-to-Be-Former President's disabilities are In that spirit, RantWoman did not do the kind of slightly more in depth analysis that might have found something to gripe about. Oh well.

On the Other Hand, RantWoman really does mean to engage about this event:

As We Are Disability Justice and Community Care conference

RantWoman is glad to know the Portland disability justice collective exists. The direct registration link with more background about the upcoming 2-day webinar can be found at 

As We are Disability Justice Webinar

There is an interesting syllabus including several authors on RantWoman's mean to read list. There are resources mentioned both on paper and in PDF.

And, since this is RantWoman, a couple quibbles:

Age? How does age fit into this projects concept of intersectionality?

Alt text for images? RantWoman can tell there are some interesting images. RantWoman knows for example from observing the FLGBTQC website that labelling images when creating pages with Google is possible but RantWoman too has not figured out how to do it.

Please label yourself if you identify as transgender ... gender nonconforming? RantWoman is pretty into girls (of any age) can be whoever they need to be, play whatever musical instrument they want, read all the math they like, participate in whatever conversation style they want so RantWoman generally on principle just dances around the term "gender nonconforming." This time RantWoman checked the box.

The word Collective? RantWoman in her righteous youth thought the word collective was wonderful. RantWoman never wants to tell someone else what to call themselves, but RantWoman admits to a slight allergy to the word, the kind of allergy one sometimes develops with a lot of exposure. 

But definitely the webinar and the site.

Two invitations: Disrupting Ableism and Pastoring in the Quaker Tradition

 RantWoman presents invitations to join RantWoman at one of the events listed here. RantWoman apologizes for sort of spartan visual presentation but definitely promises that it is worthwhile to click on the links. 

A webinar series from The Hasting Center on Bioethics  called Disrupting Ableism through artful activism. Read background and register in Advance

December 7 12-1 PST

Part 3: the art of Flourishing 

Quaker Theological Discussion Group Event December 11-12

https://qtdg.org/2020/11/19/quaker-theological-discussion-group-december-11-12-2020/

Advent Week 1 Annunciation of Mary

RantWoman said unto the Internet: "Give me something topical to the First Sunday in Advent

The internet replied: "Careful what you ask for.

Happy Birthday RantDad BOLERO Ravel レーベルボレロ Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia ガリシア D: V...

If RantDad were still alive, he would be 86 today. Fresh-faced young people performing a work with a lot of woodwind voices is a very fitting way to celebrate. Perhaps that is enough said for now.

Visuals: many views of individual performers, sections and the whole orchestra.

Pandemic Property Issues and socks

Featured tours on Planet RantWoman this season are on the theme "Peculiar Gratitudes."

Today's example: RantWoman is glad the 50 and then, after "de-intensification," 30  who formerly used rented space ... now have their own hotel rooms courtesy of the city. RantWoman is sorry it took a massive COVID outbreak at the overnight shelter downstairs. RantWoman is sorry for the financial hit toMeeting and RantWoman is holding in the Light a number of other concerns..

 The back story: RantWoman one evening was browsing positive test results on a county website for various homelessness services providers. RantWoman noticed that there were two unspecified locations operated by the agency operating the shelter in the Meeting basement. Both locations had double-digit numbers of positive tests, though RantWoman did not register the number of hospitalizations. RantWoman decided just to bite her tongue and curl up any email fingers. RantWoman cannot say she is sorry that public health officials decreed that there is no way to make the space safe right now. 

Tree leaves Rain

Next peculiar gratitude: RantWoman is very grateful, despite sever philosophical quibbles, that the other agency renting the basement is part of a holiday new sock drive. RantWoman is thinking of RantBrother and some no-one can fix issues and how much getting him the right donations seem to matter. RantWoman realized her task is to STFU about philosophy and bigger dimensions of problems right now. If socks are what is needed and socks are what people can give, RantWoman needs to STFU about a whole bunch of quibbles and just get out of the way.

Peculiar gratitudes part 3.

 The following posts came to RantWoman's mind and search engine wile thinking about the shelter situation above. 
http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2017/07/diligence.html

RantWoman still thinks she was asking reasonable questions; RantWoman would have been thrilled if the questions had come out of anyone else's mouth. RantWoman recalls a conversation with someone who, RantWoman pretty sure was not at the business meeting documented above something like "yeah, it seems like we are getting pretty intensely into homeless services." All RantWoman could say: "I am totally unsurprised.

https://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2017/09/stewardship-due-diligence.html

https://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2018/01/light-dawns-thought-bubbles-at-least.html

Seattle Magazine article including app-based help channels

Holiday visual motifs and new tags

During this impending winter of #pandemic and soon-to-be-exPresidential shenanigans, RantWoman is striving to be festive, to cultivate grace, to draw out the best in all, most of all herself. 

Okay, this is RantWoman. Let's try for festive and try to hold holy whatever comes along.

RantWoman offers clues to visual motifs and then presents some new tags. Hopefully the new tags will be more self-explanatory than some of the existing ones RantWoman is in love with. RantWoman does not promise to go back and add tags to many old posts where they belong. This is the unedited version of Blog as Quaker Journal.

Visual motifs and what they mean

Christmas Cactuses: GRATITUDE

Plant Exchange Christmas Cactus plants
with Pinkish White and darker pink blossoms 

RantWoman is grateful for the UFM Plant Exchange. RantWoman remembers a retreat when she was very new to Quakers by a married couple who had worked extensively on conflict resolution in Northern Ireland. RantWoman remembers bringing the plant with the darkest pink blossoms to the workshop. RantWoman does not remember why she brought the plant to the workshop, but let us imagine many cycles of blooming as part of conflict resolution.

Random images of holiday Gifts: 

These will be intended both as appreciations of gifts, efforts that are very meaningful to RantWoman and donations of unsolicited in-kind technical assistance

New tags

Grace

Forgiveness

Since we are discussing holiday themes, RantWoman needs to comment on one theme from a previous year: readers may have noticed that one year recently RantWoman observed Hanukkah with a bunch of "Nothing Appropriate" visual images. RantWoman realizes the entire series may have had different impact for some people than RantWoman intended. RantWoman in no way INTENDED to slam an entire religion. If anything, RantWoman intended to highlight abundant ignorance floating around in US culture. RantWoman also was symbolically working out how to deal with lingering and recurring fury with the RantParents for doing nothing appropriate about one situation stuck in RantWoman's mind along with other holiday memories. RantWoman's tasks are both to figure out more concisely what needs to be said to whom and when and to heed the call about forgiving 70x 7 times  RantWoman apologizes if this theme offended anyone and hopes that this explanation can help anyone concerned sit with a more complex picture.

RantWoman also offers confessions. 

First, RantWoman has adequately spoken to NO ONE about how helpful some forms of Quaker service were in helping RantWoman stay on her feet psychologically while dealing with SOME aspects of midlife vision loss. Plop another Christmas Cactus of Gratitude here about this topic even though the conversation will quickly degenerate into WHY CAN'T YOU MAKE TIME TO LISTEN...?

Second, but related to the first, recently in connection with one of the hats RantWoman wears outside Meeting, RantWoman wrote a "How NOT to do it" skit about how to lobby legislators. The skit was a blind mother, with an unreasonable ask, on a Zoom call with a legislator. The mother had several distractions. The senator did not know very much about blindness and did things like yawn out loud. In other words, both sides found many reasons to be less than charmed by the encounter. Despite all of this, the two did get to an agreement to explore the topic further. 

RantWoman's confession: she had WAY too much fun writing the How Not to Do It Skit. RantWoman is also seasoning an abundance of How NOT to do It material on her blog. RantWoman asks readers to bear with her and to try to extract nuggets of wisdom. Stay tuned...

Lari White - "Lead Me Not" (Official Music Video)

"Lead me not into temptation...I can find my way there on my own!"

This post is dedicated to everyone who can envision way more of a wild raucous Saturday night than they can actually achieve and in particular many possible threads of scandal and soap opera.

This post also dedicated to a humble Friend RantWoman has been sitting with in worship for years without realizing either that this Friend cultivated her musical gifts performing with a very musical family or that this Friend's late sister was a famous actress and recording artist.

RantWoman thanks this Friend for entrusting the community with the story and enough information for RantWoman to venture forth with her search engine!

Enjoy!