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Technorati Tags: rescue dog,rest,Shabbos,psychodrama,whining Geronimo, also known as You Dog You and/or Damn Dog is doing well. Thanks to all who have been asking about how he’s adjusting to his new family and home at the advanced age of 9. Everyone is slightly distressed that he will eat only raw meat and butter, with a [...]
Spring is here near Telluride—the San Miguel River is no longer ice-locked. The first purple and yellow flowers are pushing their way through the snow. Soft gray pussy willows line the roads. And the cottonwood trees are starting to bud. It’s a time of beginnings. Happy New Year! Though by modern standards the New Year [...]
More poems are written about love than any other subject. Death is, perhaps, second, followed by a big emotional bouquet: anger, despair, loneliness, greed, fear, lust, misunderstanding, gratitude. These are, after all, the most important things to write about. Notice that everything in the above list is abstract. You can’t touch, taste, smell, hear or [...]
I figure everyone, everywhere, knows about this…but just in case you don’t…here’s an unlikely but powerful duo. Would love to know what any of you who are signed up think about this class. –Beth, VTH Host It’s Not Too Late to Join You can get going whenever you want! Catch up on previous classes using [...]
My niece Dione, who I was fortunate to help raise, and who of course, helped raise me at the same time…with her son beautiful son Edan. Mom died 3 years before Dione was born. Dione was very close to my Father for the first 6 years of her life before he died. My Mother lives [...]
We had a lively and wonderful gathering for the March Central Oregon Fire Circle last night, March 21st. Great fire with the full moon rising over the back fence. Several new people, as well as regulars and us old-timers came out for the celebration of the coming of the light or spring AND at the [...]
Technorati Tags: spirituality,honoring,humor We had a bizarre happening today, March 19, 2008. Our good friend, Jack Kennedy, spiritual director, teacher of Ignatian spirituality and much-loved human being from Portland, Oregon was proclaimed both dead and then miraculously alive all in one day. As Jack is one of my mentors for the concept of engaged spirituality, [...]
At three, the kid already understands the miraculous potential of honey. “Mommy,” he says, “I have a splendid idea. Let’s get a cookie.” His eyes are impossibly bright. He tucks his chin and he turns his hands upward, a caricature of a salesman posing an irresistible idea. I resist. He sees it in my face. [...]
“Where there’s tea, there’s hope.” Had to be one of our Brit friends who quipped this, yes? Tea for Two…2008! Can it be that it was a year ago that we jumped-started this website with the Tea for Two…Million campaign? Well, so, you are invited to a global tea party! Please join friends located around [...]
We live in a society which is dedicated to twosomes: two hands, two feet, two breasts, two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two knees, two thighs–one could go on. And then there is the story of Noah on the ark and how all the animals came in two by two–seemingly fulfilling some idea of perfection, [...]