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I had an odd moment yesterday. I work at a child abuse intervention and advocacy center. We serve the community primarily by providing comprehensive medical evaluations for children who are suspected of having been abused; therapy for abused or neglected children without private insurance and prevention and education programs for professionals and the community at [...]
I read Get Rich Slowly almost every day, but today’s post stood out, so I’m posting an excerpt. Great site of practical information about how to increase our sense of well-being, which of course, includes personal finance. –Beth, VTH Host Ray laughed. “Some of my own friends wonder what I could possibly know about money. [...]
I have noticed over the years (I bet we all have) that most color images of God end up emphasizing light and even whiteness. The whiteness business may be racist, or at least ethnocentric, but I am reluctant to ascribe the lightness theme to that cause, first because many of the biblical authors who came [...]
This post is the essence of a talk I gave February 24, 2008 at the Spiritual Awareness Community in Bend, Oregon. Raising Resistance to an Art Form ”Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”– the Borg in Star Trek, The Next Generation There’s not going to be anything said or done today that you don’t [...]
Since my last blog post (a month ago), I’ve caught spring in action on several occasions. She’s shy, but I was able to get just close enough to take some really amazing pictures. This farm photo shoot was my first spring activity of the year, not counting my awkward scramble up the icy side of [...]
As I sat with family and friends around a fire in my backyard on Wednesday night, the 20th, we watched the total lunar eclipse and cooked ‘dogs’ and s’mores…and laughed, and watched the moon, howling just a tad.. It was a delightful experience here in Bend, Oregon. The link below gives professional photos of what [...]
The customs officer was not amused. It was Christmas morning, and my husband, toddler and I were returning to the States after a 10-hour flight from Buenos Aires. The only re-entry forms they’d had on the plane were in Spanish. I’d done my best to fill them out, but had struggled on words around agriculture. [...]
I got a delightful kick in my pants early this morning from some new spiritual firends! I’ve been in communication with Helen Mildenhall who hosts a wonderful site dedicated to Christian dialogue called “Conversation at the Edge”. This is how the site describes itself : “ ‘helping Christians become normal’ since 2001. The site is [...]
This Valentine’s Day, do more than just sign the card King Bolete mushroom Location: ColoradoHabitat: High Elevation above 10,000 ft. Typically under Spruce or Fir Trees.Spore Print: Olive to BrownEdibility: EdibleColor: Red to BrownDescription: The Boletus Edulis or King Boleta is a very large mushroom that is easy to identify and is one of the [...]
A Language Older Than Words “There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even know that [...]
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