Kites for Gaza
Saturday March 30, 2:00 p.m.
Meetinghouse
Join us on Saturday, March 30, at the Meetinghouse to fly kites to promote a cease-fire in Gaza. Saturday, March 30, is the international kite-flying day in support of Gaza known as Kites for Gaza.
2:00 p.m. Bring your kite or use materials for making a kite -- paper, frame, and string will be provided. (Be aware of ticks; tick season started early this year.)
3:00 pm - Fly your Kite!
For more information, contact Jens Braun at jjbraun58@gmail.com or Bob Elmendorf at poet2277@gmail.com.
Whether you fly a kite or not, please read Refaat Alareer's poem If I Must Die.
Meetinghouse
Join us on Saturday, March 30, at the Meetinghouse to fly kites to promote a cease-fire in Gaza. Saturday, March 30, is the international kite-flying day in support of Gaza known as Kites for Gaza.
2:00 p.m. Bring your kite or use materials for making a kite -- paper, frame, and string will be provided. (Be aware of ticks; tick season started early this year.)
3:00 pm - Fly your Kite!
For more information, contact Jens Braun at jjbraun58@gmail.com or Bob Elmendorf at poet2277@gmail.com.
Whether you fly a kite or not, please read Refaat Alareer's poem If I Must Die.
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting's Book Club to Read Becoming Animal
Saturday, April 20 7:00 p.m.
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting's Book Club will be reading Becoming Animal, an Earthly Cosmology by David Abram.
"David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we’ve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abram’s writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth. The shape-shifting of ravens, the erotic nature of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures of being edible: all have their place in this book."
The book is rich with metaphor and a deep kinship with nature, full of poetry and has an appreciation of what Van Gogh was trying to accomplish.
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting will purchase the book and send it to you free of charge if you will donate to a local library when you've read it. We hope you can join us. This time we are encouraging all members of our meeting to read the book.
Unfortunately we will not be screening the film Becoming Animal originally scheduled for April 27, because it is only made available in a format called DCP that is incompatible with our system in the meetinghouse. This is a big disappointment to me but at least we will have the book to share.
Zoom link for the book discussion:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84477286101?pwd=d1ZTeDk4cDdtcDM3bjc0eGUzaEc0UT09
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting's Book Club will be reading Becoming Animal, an Earthly Cosmology by David Abram.
"David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we’ve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. Abram’s writing subverts this distance, drawing readers ever closer to their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth. The shape-shifting of ravens, the erotic nature of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures of being edible: all have their place in this book."
The book is rich with metaphor and a deep kinship with nature, full of poetry and has an appreciation of what Van Gogh was trying to accomplish.
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting will purchase the book and send it to you free of charge if you will donate to a local library when you've read it. We hope you can join us. This time we are encouraging all members of our meeting to read the book.
Unfortunately we will not be screening the film Becoming Animal originally scheduled for April 27, because it is only made available in a format called DCP that is incompatible with our system in the meetinghouse. This is a big disappointment to me but at least we will have the book to share.
Zoom link for the book discussion:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84477286101?pwd=d1ZTeDk4cDdtcDM3bjc0eGUzaEc0UT09
Children & Youth Committee Invites All to After-Meeting Potluck on May 19
Join us for potluck on Sunday, May 19, after meeting for worship from 12:30 to 1:30. All are encouraged to come -- bring a dish or snack to share. Labeling the ingredients is helpful for those with food preferences.
Latin in the Meetinghouse
Starting on November 2nd, Bob Elmendorf will offer instruction in Latin for Junior High School Students on Thursdays at 3:00 in our Meetinghouse. He will teach from Latin Via Ovid and augment the classes with a history of the alphabet, proto-indo-european, derivations and some Catullus poems. The students will be encouraged to take small research projects either with books provided by the instructor or on the Internet, and report back to the class. If you have any questions, contact Bob poet2277@gmail.com.
Bob is still accepting students for this class.
Bob is still accepting students for this class.