RantWoman has been spending a certain amount of time being severely annoyed to be pointedly NOT invited to certain meetings in RantWoman's faith community where RantWoman is clear she has things to contribute and where RantWoman really needs to take care of things RantWoman deeply values about her life of faith in order even to go the places RantWoman does.
RantWoman's annoyance relates partly to life experiences that others find at least a bit much even to think about. For instance, RantWoman adores public transit on ecological, social connection, linguistic research / vocabulary development and of course transportation and independing living grounds; others find even that topic oh, a bit much.
On the other hand, RantWoman has also found herself grateful sometimes to know she is in some respects getting to attend exactly the right meetings. For example, last week at the King County Mobility coalition meeting, RantWoman heard a great short introduction to a very new program called Project Safe Place. Project Safe Place is a unique collaboration between KingCounty Metro and King County youth service providers. A young person can tell a Metro bus driver they need "a safe place" and the driver will call dispatch and arrange to have the young person met by a representative of one of the cooperating youth services programs. This call does NOT involve the police.
http://www.kingcounty.gov/council/news/2011/October/JH_COWyouth.aspx
(RantWoman is vexed: RantWoman THINKS she remembers seeing a web item somewhere with the Project Safe Place logo for readers who care more about visuals than RantWoman necessarily does, but that is not what the search bar served up here.)
Recently RantWoman was one of several people with childrn in their lives who wanted to attend a presentation on Stranger Danger (not the Seattle area newsweekly). As if Stranger Danger, grooming, sex predators, abuse issues close to home were not scary enough topics, RantWoman has ears which occasionally, from time to time, in places like the front of a bus or certain interpreting-themed conversations pick up even scarier topics such as sex-trafficking.
RantWoman finds herself NOT very patient with people who might think RantWoman is hysterical for even using that term. Usually if that term might be applicable, someone is in a lot of danger and RantWoman wants as quickly as possible to make connections that will help, not just listen to others minimize or miss the point. Even getting to a point one can make such suggestions might take more than one conversation. SOMETIMES daily routines aboard a certain route are exactly what helps one make even tentative connections and assemble thoughts of need for such conversations in the first place.
Frequently when RantWoman picks up such topics, RantWoman finds herself wanting to be able to say SOMETHING to help or to give the person connected with the topic a sense of choices and options. RantWoman is VERY grateful she wound up at the KC Mobility Coalition meeting seated next to someone she could ask about the very topic of trafficking and Project Safe Place. RantWoman herself stammered a little just raising the issue during a break; RantWoman's neighbor was very respectful: yes, the people who designed Project Safe Place definitely have trafficking issues in mind too! RantWoman would definitely not mind if she never needs this info; somehow RantWoman thinks never needing ths info is unlikely and is grateful to have it.
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RantWoman has been spending a certain amount of time being severely annoyed to be pointedly NOT invited to certain meetings in RantWoman's faith community
ReplyDeleteMaybe the woman doth rant too much and listen too little?
Ya think?
ReplyDeleteHere is another link about trafficking simply as part of RantWoman's Blog as File cabinet model of content presentation.
http://blog.sojo.net/2011/10/26/lawyers-surreal-world-and-the-fight-against-selling-children/
In general, the question of who doth rant too much and who doth listen too little is ONE of the matters being seasoned on the thread of RantWoman's other blog rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com tagged Charm School.
RantWoman's life can be sort of a Yucky topics festival: disaster preparedness, the city bus, midlife vision loss, people with disabilities, sex trafficking, plus other matters typical of any average faith community. RantWoman finds it very difficult to speak at all of the movements of God in her life without speaking of many things which are just a bit WAY TOO MUCH for some around her.
Furthermore, although RantWoman specifically thinks it's important to acknowledge having a faith community and one that is important in one's life, RantWoman is very much a Quaker in progress. Out of respect for the diversity of those RantWoman hopes are interested in other things on this blog, RantWoman mostly prefers that the Quaker in Progress stuff stay on her other blog. On the other blog there should be abundant evidence of teh Quaker in Progress point.