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• wings of understanding

  “In a boat down a fast-running creek, it feels like trees on the bank are rushing by. What seems to be changing around us is rather the speed of our craft leaving this world.” --Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī Photo taken at springs flowing directly out of Read More... Posted Saturday, January 02, 2010 9:24 PM by Beth Patterson | 20 Comments Filed under: amazement, ancestors, beauty, becoming more human, dreams, one single impression

• found art goes metaphysical

  Struggling to become incarnated embodied really live in this body and not my always-editing mind, on what grounds do I engage what re-incarnation might entail? The closest I can get to understanding reincarnation is making art of of found pieces of what Read More... Posted Sunday, November 15, 2009 3:25 AM by Beth Patterson | 18 Comments Filed under: art, becoming more human, one single impression

• ‘cogito ergo sum’ : Burning Brain Bloat

  Read this as a poorly executed rap/slam. TAKE 1 Descartes' famous and cheeky declaration become the reason The rationalization The substantiation that it’s permissible even the calling card of the freakishly intelligent the class with the upper hand Subjugating Read More... Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:36 PM by Beth Patterson | 16 Comments Filed under: beauty, becoming more human, one single impression

• being thunk is better than sliced bread

  Don't wanna think. Wanna be thunk From the great mind of Creation. From the heart of the World. Being thunk is a natural state. Receptive, open, flexible, humorous. At ease, because there's nothing to prove or judge. Connected to all life because we're Read More... Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 3:33 AM by Beth Patterson | 17 Comments Filed under: becoming more human, one single impression

• behind the lilacs

  Collage done in March 2009 from a dream, titled 'The Eye of the Heart' On any graced day The stranger shuffles, glides, stalks, trails over a horizon Pushing aside the lilacs obscuring my heart's door Asking only an audience. If no one answered the knock Read More... Posted Sunday, July 05, 2009 9:38 AM by Beth Patterson | 21 Comments Filed under: becoming more human, one single impression, openness to life, resistance

• tactical tactile tales

  Tale # 1 sigh of restless heart snow embraces plum petals spring slush touches sodden soul Tale # 2 As above, so below thus pronounce fine Hermeticists. However, my experience teaches as below, so above. God can only be in our image. [NOTE: the earlier Read More... Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 10:47 AM by Beth Patterson | 23 Comments Filed under: becoming more human, one single impression, touch

• words gone amuck

  two letters universes of difference how did we get here? has this happened in other worlds or only ours? what kind of quirky, convoluted Mind designed us to think we're so separate we can make stuff like this up? legal or illegal words gone amuck designing Read More... Posted Sunday, April 26, 2009 11:32 AM by Beth Patterson | 23 Comments Filed under: becoming more human, calling things by their right name, compassion, connections

• hope built on new sensibilities

  As I recently hurriedly posted about a speech made by Warren Buffett concerning hope for the U.S, I found myself struggling with the concept of hope in these difficult days. As I've been reflecting since then, nothing profound has hit me, but below are Read More... Posted Saturday, March 28, 2009 7:44 PM by Beth Patterson | 4 Comments Filed under: 7 generations, becoming more human, behavior change, clear vision, community-building, connections

• No padding needed...artfull bra project (Breast Cancer Awareness)

  These works of art and obvious love will amaze you. The page loads oddly on my laptop--you have to scroll left/right to see the whole page, but it's worth the effort. Thanks to Michelle Meech , a blogger on the Virtual Tea House, for sending the link Read More... Posted Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:48 PM by Beth Patterson | 3 Comments Filed under: acceptance, becoming more human, calling things by their right name, humor, in memorium, wonder

• We're nomads, for God's sake

  "Religion is nice, but even without all that divine revelatory hullabaloo, the Creator left us enough information in the earth about how to live in balance. If we did not have the Torah, we could have learned everything that we needed to know from the Read More... Posted Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:45 PM by Beth Patterson | 0 Comments Filed under: advent, animal-human connection, becoming more human, blessings, brokenness, chanukah, gifts, humanity

• no good answer

  I think these are actually geese and not 'dox', but you get the picture. If one plans to have baby-dox it's easier to have a para-dox but only because it takes an entire village to raise them. Here's the real puzzle: If a man raised in foreign places Read More... Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 4:19 PM by Beth Patterson | 27 Comments Filed under: becoming more human, calling things by their right name, compassion

• the fly-by

  Mother Theresa talked about loving the dying, the poor and the broken of spirit as if they were the Christ in one of his many distressing disguises. what the heck was that ? what just flew in front of my car? was it...you know, a witch? was it...an owl? Read More... Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 2:06 AM by Beth Patterson | 18 Comments Filed under: becoming more human, Mother Theresa

• Banned Books Week September 27-October 4: Take a banned book to lunch!

  Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read September 27–October 4, 2008 Thanks to Adele S. for sending this info! Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:33 PM by Beth Patterson | 0 Comments Filed under: art, becoming more human

• The future is ours to see: crumbling like a mountain

  This post is part of a synchroblog hosted on the site Square No More . The topic for this month's synchroblog is maturity in the light of our faith. Please visit these blogs for excellent posts related to this topic: Phil Wyman asks Is Maturity Really Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:30 AM by Beth Patterson | 26 Comments Filed under: 7 generations, abundance, aging gracefully, ancestors, becoming more human, brokenness, courage, faith development, spirituality of subtraction

• Life is a Verb-alicious thang

  My new friend Patti Digh, of the 37 Days (what would you be doing if you only had 37 days to live?) blog, has just published another book--but this is not just another book...it's the amalgamation of much of her life work and passion, and its title is: Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:48 PM by Beth Patterson | 2 Comments Filed under: aging gracefully, art, becoming more human, blooming where we're planted, complaint-free world, life finds a way, seeing clearly