Some ideas for that tax rebate check
One of my favorite new sites is Carl McColman's 'The Website of Unknowing'. The site is both theologically diverse and grounded, a refreshing change of pace. His blog entry for today is "The Rebate 'Check'" Carl has some thoughtful things to say about the bigger picture of how these checks are deficient in vision as well as being deficit spending. He offers some practical ideas about how we might use the proposed money thoughtfully and with care. Very helpful information. Felt like a meditation, actually.
Hope you enjoy Carl's site. He did a nice connection for the Virtual Tea House a couple weeks ago on his 'Other People's Blogs' page on his site, called "The Butler, Tea and Single Malt". Carl's advice to me in an email was to write more--so I'm going to try to be posting more often.
Here's a link to Carl's prolific and beautiful books on Celtic mysticism and other earth based spirituality. Or paste this URL into your browser: http://anamchara.com/hob/faq/about/books/
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About Beth Patterson
The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.
One of my favorite hats, among several is: initiated firekeeper in the Sacred Fire Community. Hosting a monthly community fire circle, I'm being taught that the simple act of sitting around a fire with the intent of holding open-hearted space makes for some soulful community!
With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.
Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.
I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.
Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.
Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.