Announcements

Dr. Doreen E. Martinez is Mescalero Apache and Pennsylvania Dutch. She is a transnational Indigenous epistemologist with a PhD in Sociology.  These projects address and include mis/understandings of identity, collective philosophies, and nation-state relationships. As an avid advocate of alliance building and promoting justice, she has served as an advisor to Right Relationship Boulder and the Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples (TRR) program.

-Presented by Indigenous Peoples Concerns Committee

Memorial Service for Betty and Jack Herring is confirmed for Saturday, April 1^st at 10 am at the Meeting House and on Zoom. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us to celebrate the lives of these dear long-time Friends.

We are using one joining link for almost all of our BFM meetings.
Join Zoom Meeting with video from a computer, tablet, or smart phone:
https://zoom.us/j/96273568620?pwd=TDlDTW1SalJGUzRjT3B1dnkwbnhoZz09
Join with audio only by phone: 1-669-900-6833 (*6 to mute/unmute, *9 to raise hand)
Meeting ID: 962 7356 8620 Password: 063025

The Religious Education Committee wants to make this Easter, which is on April 9^th, more intergenerational this year. If you can drop off decorated eggs (either hard boiled or plastic with something inside) on the circle table in the classroom next to the office before 10:15 that Sunday. The children will write their names on the eggs and hide them in the playground before rise of meeting. Adults are invited to find the eggs and match them with the child who will collect them in an Easter basket. Following this activity there will be coffee, juice and snacks on the picnic tables for all to enjoy. If time Andrew will lead us in an interactive activity.

Submitted by Susan Stephens, convener of REC

Colorado Regional Meeting will hold its Spring Gathering, Sunday, April 23, hosted by Mountain View Meeting, 2280 S Columbine St, Denver, CO 80210. All Colorado Quakers are invited to attend, starting with worship with Mountain View Friends, at 10:45 am. The theme of the gathering will be on “the Tension between Science and Faith”. Bring something to share for a lunch potluck.

FIFTH SUNDAY SINGERS

People have asked whether Fifth Sunday Singers is a singing group that is based at Boulder Friends Meeting. For those in the know, it is merely a gathering of like-minded spirits who like to sing. We are not practiced, or even good, just tap-your-toes tune-lovers.

Our ‘tunes’ are from the ‘Rise Up Singing’ series of which book two, ‘Rise Again,’ was published seven years ago. We take requests from either book and often share stories of why we picked a song or what we know about it. Sometimes someone will offer to teach a new song, in the books or not, by a rote singing process; no note reading required. Sometimes someone will grab a percussion instrument that is provided, for added rhythmic impact. Smiles abound as certain favorites are sung, especially if a child is present and we invade the “Children’s Songs” section. There are always new souls attending, some of whom stick around to join the dozen of us “regulars.”

Anyone is welcome anytime with no requirements as to age or ability. Hope to see you there one of these days. Look for us in the worship room or outdoors on the front patio.

Submitted by Carolyn Kuban, convener of FSS

Intermountain Yearly Meeting, a gathering of Quakers from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, will be June 21-25, 2023 at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, CO.  Theme is Becoming the Quakers the World Needs Today with Friend in Residence Jon Watts.  Here is a short video about Jon. Participation will be hybrid with payment as led.  Please join us!

Click here to learn about and to register for this year’s IMYM gathering.

Submitted by Deanne Butterfield

Tony Umile Photography Retrospective at the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, March 10 – April 9 with an Opening Reception on Friday March 10^th 6-8pm.  Tony’s pinhole and double-exposure techniques reveal the layers of being human across identity, culture, and time. Stop in to celebrate our dear Tony’s artistry, skill, and Friendship through his eyes and camera.

Our program hour on The Role of Social Media in Encouraging New Attenders was attended by about 35 participants. The informational section was recorded and is available here.

Click here to download the powerpoint slides from this presentation.

Comments includes many thoughts and feelings about social media and also about other methods that BFM might use to let potential attenders know about our meeting. Notes from the discussion can be downoaded here.

Web Committee plans to bring a proposal about use of social media to Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business, so we hope that Friends who did not attend the program hour might view these resources.

Submitted by Web Committee

The first “IMYM Peace and Social Justice Roundtable” will be held on ZOOM, Saturday, March 25th at 2pm. Bring your personal, Meeting, or Worship Group peace and social justice interests, concerns, and projects. We’ll meet on the last Saturday of every month to advance P&SJ communication and cooperation. Open to ALL Friends! ZOOM link and more info can be found at: https://imym.org/about-imym-round-tables/peace-and-social-justice-round-table/ Questions? Contact Meeting@IMYM.org or Anne Remleyagr1@me.com

The event “The Sum of Us — Continuing the Community Conversation” — has been postponed to April 16, 4:30-6:30 PM. The NAACP will be sending out publicity as they finalize the details, but in the meantime, read this article by Gail Christopher. This article, along with the final chapter of The Sum Of Us will be the topic of a deep dive with Dr. Sheila Davis and Susan Kaplan. This event will be in person, and may also be offered online. 

Brad Parks, a member of our Meeting who has been in Michigan for the last several years caring for his mother, will be in town for a few weeks starting around March 25th to visit his children and grandchildren, who will be assembling in Boulder. He also needs to schedule some medical care while in town. He’s looking for a room or, if necessary, a couch. He can provide some remuneration to defray expenses. Brad can be reached at 303-588-0388, or bparks@colorado.edu.

Stillness of Space, collaborative mixed media art exhibition by Helen Braider and Eleonor Bostrom. Opening April 7, 6 – 9 pm. Also open April 8 – 15, noon to 4, or appointment.  The Crowd Collective, 4939 Broadway, suite 58, Boulder.

This section lets us share our greatest joys and sorrows.

Boulder Friends Meeting conducts hybrid in-person and Zoom worship every Sunday at 10 AM. You are welcome to come to the meetinghouse or join us online. Friends often gather for coffee and fellowship after in-person Meeting. Optional participation in fellowship breakout rooms immediately follows Meeting for Worship on Zoom most Sundays.

To join by Zoom:

We are now using one joining link for all of our BFM meetings.

Join Zoom Meeting with video from a computer, tablet, or smart phone:

https://zoom.us/j/96273568620?pwd=TDlDTW1SalJGUzRjT3B1dnkwbnhoZz09

Join with audio only by phone: 1-669-900-6833 (*6 to mute/unmute, *9 to raise hand)

Meeting ID: 962 7356 8620 Password: 063025

Our Early Meeting for Worship in the meetinghouse (no Zoom) usually attracts a handful of Friends who generally worship in silence. No announcements or group sharing of Joys and Sorrows as in the 10:00 Meeting. You can greet friends arriving for the later meeting if you stick around afterwards. All are welcome.

All are invited to outdoor worship in Cottonwood Park, Louisville, 9:00-10:00 am. The parking lot is on the south side of South Boulder Road between Via Appia and Garfield streets. Please bring a chair. For more info, contact Alyson Crabtree, alyson.hedgerow@nym.hush.com, or text 303-415-0585.

A Meeting for Worship is held monthly at the Stephens’ home in Arvada at 8467 Chase Drive. Call Barb at 303-918-9065 with questions. All are welcome!

The nursery in the New Horizons portion of our meeting house will be open every Sunday, between the hours of 10:00 and 11:30. If you have a baby or a young child up to five years old, please consider bring them to our nursery. Our excellent childcare provider, Constantine Mingoube, will be happy to meet you and find out what your baby or young child needs, such as dietary restrictions. You may contact her in advance at 720-323-7778.

1. We urge all those who feel they may have, or be at risk of, Covid or any other contagious illness to refrain from entering the Meetinghouse.
2. We highly recommend and encourage all users of the Meetinghouse to maintain a fully vaccinated status (as per current CDC guidelines). However, the Meeting House will now be open to all who wish to enter, with the exception of New Horizon activities, which will be governed by the New Horizons Covid policy.
3. Masks continue to be recommended for anyone who feels they may be at risk of getting Covid or any other illness, such as flu.
4. We will reestablish the social distancing area (the East section of the Worship Room).
5. We urge the Meeting to install air purifier(s) in the Worship Room.

For a printable version, please click here.

Announcements:

• Please include the following information:
• Short title, including date and time (of an event)
• Body of the announcement (Can be short or lengthy)
• Links are welcome (I can embed them)
• Photos, if essential (Difficult to post, but possible)
• Short “save-the-date” statements okay if full announcement not ready
• Add: “Submitted by” (Committee or Individual Friend)
• Submit announcements in final form if possible

Bulletin:

Send a brief (1 – 2 sentence) version for the Friday Bulletin. Include links if available.

Calendar:

Meeting events will be added to the Calendar.

How to Submit:

Send all postings to announcements@boulderfriendsmeeting.org.

What Not to Send:

Please do not include me in committee email strings. I count on you to finalize your wording.

Gratefully,

Margaret Wallace for Web Committee

Have you been unable to access our BFM calendar from our website, instead getting reCAPTCHA in an unsolvable loop? It’s been happening on our meeting laptop too, and causing difficulty joining Zoom for those who are used to doing this from the calendar. This problem seems to be unique to those of us using Safari. Judi Dressler figured it out for us – thanks, Judi!)

The solution: In Safari, open Preferences, which you will find by clicking on the word Safari in the top lefthand corner. Select Privacy and then uncheck the box that says Prevent cross-site tracking. This should solve the problem, but it also lets companies track your interests to send you targeted, rather than random, advertisements. If this bothers you, you might want to use a different browser than Safari. For an explanation of Safari’s data privacy settings, click here.

We will be cooking and serving at The Homeless Shelter on the third Saturday evening of each month. Please contact Miriam Sander at magicsilvermiles@gmail.com or (720) 645-3630 to be included in the schedule. It isn’t necessary to participate every month; the cooking schedule can work with your personal schedule. Come work with friends to provide this critical service to our homeless community.

M&W sponsored three program hours on the question of revitalizing the meeting in terms of making the number of committee slots more consistent with the current number of active participants in the Meeting. These workshops have been summarized by members of the ad-hoc Revitalization task force. These documents are notes–not organized, official minutes–and are offered here as possibly helpful background information to friends who are interested in this topic. View the summaries here: Workshop 1, Workshop 2, Workshop 3

If you missed the 10 a.m. Sunday Meeting and would like to hear Friends’ Joys and Sorrows, you are welcome to contact someone on Ministry & Worship (M&W) Committee.

An easy-does-it tai chi and yoga combo class will be led in person and on Zoom on most Sundays following meeting in the worship room at the Boulder meetinghouse at 1825 Upland Ave. 50304. Sometimes it will be canceled if another in-person event or program hour conflicts. If in doubt, please contact Makaan by text (303-257-8219) to find out whether the class will be held. You can also contact Makaan to be added to his email list.

Makaan Michael Burt will be conducting a 45-minute experience of moving and sitting meditation. Class will start in a chair and transition into standing flow, then settling into chairs with an uplifting thought or contemplative reading; we will end with Q and A. Moving meditation will last 30+ minutes. Some participants may do the whole class sitting if more comfortable. If you’re a tall person, over 5’8″, please bring a thick pillow so that your knees are not higher than your hips while sitting in the chair.

Makaan Michael has been trained in Yoga therapy and taught it for 20 years. After 30 years of fooling around with tai chi, he recently trained in the TaijiFit method of flow training with Master David Dorian Ross.

(This method was designed over a 40-year period by Master D.D.R. to let us experience intuitive grace. These movements’ purpose is to bring peace and balance to our daily lives. Each class will be customized to the fitness level of participants.

In-person class is limited to 15 participants. Covid vaccinations or a negative test within 6 hours are required.  The Zoom link will be available in Announcements and the calendar on our website.

Makaan: 303-257-8219 for texting only please

(The Zoom joining link is not the one used for most meetings.)

Join Zoom Meeting with video from a computer, tablet, or smart phone:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84394258264?pwd=dmVBU3VpRDd1elBMOUZQU012M01pZz09

Join with audio only by phone: 1-669-900-6833 (*6 to mute/unmute, *9 to raise hand, # to leave breakout room)

Meeting ID: 843 9425 8264  Passcode: 945634

A new “Member Packet” of information for people considering membership in Boulder Friends Meeting has been developed by the Oversight and Membership (O&M) committee.  They would like feedback and suggestions from current members and attenders.  Please read and send comments to Chris Braider (Christopher.Braider@colorado.edu).

Please bring non-perishable food donations for EFAA. The white barrel is at the meetinghouse year round waiting to be filled, and Friends have offered to deliver the food to EFAA. Other donations can be taken or sent to EFAA at 1575 Yarmouth Ave., Boulder, 80304, just a few blocks from the meetinghouse!

– Submitted by the Service Committee

Having trouble finding the calendar, Announcements, or Zoom links? Download this document by clicking on it and put it on your computer desktop for easy access. Useful Links for Quaker Friends

Would you like to participate in sending Light to those who request it? This supplement to our post-worship Joys and Sorrows appears to have much support from Meeting for several reasons, especially its immediacy. First suggested as a prayer circle, “Circle of Light” seemed a more inclusive name. We try to surround those in need with Light as soon as it is requested.

If you have a request that you or your loved ones be held in the Light, email Daniel Booth (booth.daniel.j@gmail.com) or text/call 303-594-6138 and your request will go out promptly. Should you wish to remain anonymous, just provide whatever details are needed for us to focus on your situation.

An online Quaker Studies class focusing on Quaker Spirituality was offered during the winter of 2022. All of the resources, consisting of online articles and short videos, were linked from the syllabus. The syllabus also contains a number of queries for reflection. The syllabus is now available on our Boulder Quaker Meeting website for those who may be interested in working through the materials as a self-study. The syllabus is available at http://bit.do/QS-2022-syllabus. 

We may offer a similar–but not identical–class in the Winter of 2023, with a combination of in-person and online meetings. If you are interested in participating in such a class, please email Bill Moninger and Arlene Brownell.

For further information about any of the above activities, contact clerk@boulderfriendsmeeting.org.