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Nothing left to lose
29 June 08 05:52 AM | Beth Patterson | 4 Comments   
About 13 years ago I had a dream that I will live-into for the rest of my life. In the dream, I'm part of the life of a retreat center or monastery of some sort. The center is on an island and on top of a large plateau or mountain with ocean surrounding. Read More...
On being a stone
04 June 08 01:48 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   
This is my 4th posting in the 'Hi Honey I'm Home' series for the 'Where's Home?' contest here on the VTH. Just found a wonderful site-- because Kudzu Fire commented on On a wing and the Whatever Prayer ! The site is "Written on the Wind". Thanks, "Kudzu Read More...
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...
Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Award "Let's build a Charter for Compassion"
13 April 08 02:27 PM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   
Karen Armstrong is a provocative, original thinker on the role of religion in the modern world. For those of you who aren't acquainted with TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) : Ideas worth sharing --a conference and website designed to bring the Read More...
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...
Shards of light
08 December 07 05:47 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking Read More...
Sharing the stove
02 December 07 04:27 AM | Beth Patterson | 4 Comments   
"We don't have to be each other's cup of tea, but tolerance lets a variety of kettles peacefully share the stove." NPR This I Believe essay: True Tolerance by Joel Engardio This week I had an email dialogue with my oldest 'surviving' friend--the one that Read More...
His knots express soul work
01 September 07 05:38 PM | Beth Patterson | 3 Comments   
Detailed photos of these art pieces may be viewed in the Galleries section of this website. About Al: Al spent the first part of his career as an attorney for the Colorado Public School system. Through life events and wishing for a different perspective, Read More...

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