This delightful story was sent as an email today from my friend Donna. Thanks, Donna!
Recently a family that lives on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska built a sturdy, colorful playground for their three and four year old sons. They lined the bottom with smooth-stone gravel all around to avoid knee scrapes and other injuries, don't ya know. Gotta keep the kids safe, after all. They finished building it one Friday evening lately and were very pleased with the result.
The following morning, the mom was about to wake the boys and have them go out to play in their new play center. This is what she saw from the upstairs window:
I particularly like the one of the bear on the slide. Too bad they didn't have a trampoline set up!
Puts me in mind of one of Yogi Berra's 'isms': 'If people don't want to come down to the ballpark, how you gonna stop them?'
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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.
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'.
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