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How to be a Woman
13 May 08 04:37 PM | Beth Patterson | 5 Comments   

This post is in response to Steve Pavlina's post: "How to be a Man". He put out the challenge for someone to balance his strong post by writing about how to be a woman. In the interest of not living in the shadow of being either an untouchable goddess, Read More...

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On the 30th anniversary of my mother's death
23 March 08 05:47 AM | Beth Patterson | 3 Comments   

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 Read More...

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Not even close
18 November 07 10:04 AM | Beth Patterson | 7 Comments   

It's raining here in central Oregon. For those of you who are not familiar with the variety of ecozones in this amazing state, and envision pictures of drippy green, mossy temperate rain forests or craggy coastline when you think of Oregon you might be Read More...

Filed under: 7 generations, connections, living life on purpose, blooming where we're planted, wonder, abundance