Here are some responses to a silly email game. You send this question out to your so-called friends and see what they come up with. I sent it out this week and got the following responses. Some of them only close friends would recognize as...satire?
If you saw me in a police car what would you think I got arrested for?
- MLK'esque demonstration/resistance gig
- doing a volunteer ride along to better understand what police officers have to deal with --the underbelly of life!
- impersonating some saint
- Geronimo re-sculpturing someone's yard
- starting a fire in someone else's backyard (and inviting friends over to sit around it?)
- masterminding a bust into a tobacco shop
- impersonating a writer
- wearing too many colors in the same outfit
- the OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commission) found out about the still in your backyard
You should try it--it's a riot! Just send the question out to a bunch of people and see what they say. It certainly divides your friends from the wannabes.
Any of the rest of you out there--just add your ideas as comments!
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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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