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Katrina remembered: "Yes, my love, this is how it goes" Part 1
21 June 08 10:54 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   
Solstice weekend now and forever will have a more personal meaning. This 2 part post is about my dear friend Katrina, who like the hurricane,was a force of nature. Katrina died of cancer at the age of 51 in 2003 on June 19th at 11:45pm, 15 minutes before Read More...
Callie Ann's scalp?
27 May 08 05:58 PM | Beth Patterson | 1 Comments   
For this, the 100th post on my blog, I want to tell all y'all a story that I've been thinking about for awhile. Callie Ann is the adult daughter of a woman I worked with a long time ago in a land far away called Florida. Now in her 40's, Callie Ann has Read More...
Leaving home so she can find home anew
24 May 08 12:55 AM | Beth Patterson | 2 Comments   
Second in the series, "Hi Honey, I'm Home" as part of the 'Where's Home' contest. I had the honor of helping present Toni Ryan, Executive Director of Saving Grace (formerly COBRA: Central Oregon Battering and Rape Alliance) the 2008 Crime Victims Assistance 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...
Mother's Day, revisited
11 May 08 03:12 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   
Checking my NetVibes this morning, I came across a YouTube video on Conversation at the Edge , which found it at Skepchick, which found it at Feministing , and well, I guess they found it in some old advertising archive for Goodyear! At any rate, it makes Read More...
Tales of the Wandering Boob
09 May 08 01:50 AM | Beth Patterson | 1 Comments   
This is a guest post from Susan Dearborn Jackson. She will be a regular blogger on the Virtual Tea House. Stay tuned for more adventures with Susan...and maybe even with Susan's peripatetic boob. In the meantime, here's a little bio: Susan has been an Read More...
The dog's in heaven and the cat's in jail
21 April 08 05:46 PM | Beth Patterson | 5 Comments   
" Somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail. You find somebody to love in this world, you better hang on tooth and nail...the wolf is always at the door...." lyric from 'In a New York Minute' by Don Henley I have seen the following silliness Read More...
Waiting in the Garden: Stories of hula-hoops, humus and holy crappola
22 March 08 07:50 AM | Beth Patterson | 4 Comments   
We had a lively and wonderful gathering for the March Central Oregon Fire Circle last night, March 21st. Great fire with the full moon rising over the back fence. Several new people, as well as regulars and us old-timers came out for the celebration of Read More...
Jack's Foiled (Im)mortality Plan
19 March 08 05:46 PM | Beth Patterson | 5 Comments   
Technorati Tags: spirituality , honoring , humor We had a bizarre happening today, March 19, 2008. Our good friend, Jack Kennedy, spiritual director, teacher of Ignatian spirituality and much-loved human being from Portland, Oregon was proclaimed both Read More...
At play in the heart of the matter
15 March 08 07:08 AM | Beth Patterson | 2 Comments   
Technorati Tags: play , fire , challenge ,dreams For more on the theme of the title, click here: 'At play in the heart of the matter, Take 2!' I just spent a week (March 7-14) with some amazing folks in Portland, Oregon. I was sort-of sequestered with Read More...
Am I ready after all these lifetimes?
02 March 08 03:19 AM | Beth Patterson | 2 Comments   
Subtitle: Can I return these new glasses if they make me too peaceful, joyful and contented? A few years ago I had a dream that rocked my world and will stay with me for the rest of my life. Here it is in a nutshell: Summer 2002 Title of dream: Perfect Read More...
Guest Blogger: Helen Mildenhall goes Off the Map
01 March 08 01:27 PM | Beth Patterson | 3 Comments   
I met Helen in my scouting around for quality blogs for the Engaged Spirituality Carnival. I found more in Helen than I knew I was searching for... Helen lives in Illinois with her husband and two children. She hosts the blog Conversation at the Edge Read More...
Resistance is futile...we are being assimilated!
24 February 08 10:37 AM | Beth Patterson | 3 Comments   
This post is the essence of a talk I gave February 24, 2008 at the Spiritual Awareness Community in Bend, Oregon . Raising Resistance to an Art Form ”Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”-- the Borg in Star Trek, The Next Generation There’s not Read More...
Day 1 of the Complaint-Free Diet: 'Can't complain'
29 January 08 06:08 PM | Beth Patterson | 5 Comments   
When I was in Denver earlier this month I had dinner with a friend of 17 years, Rudite. We worked together at hospice while I was in seminary. We don't talk much in between when I visit Denver, but we always try to get together when I'm in town. I was Read More...
Inner Christmas and the 12 Holy Nights
06 January 08 05:21 AM | Beth Patterson | 1 Comments   
For the archives of this site: Here's a lovely video and audio by Lynn Jericho about honoring the 12 Holy Nights . The mystics and astrologers say that the veil between worlds is most transparent during these lovely, quiet nights. A Personal Practice Read More...
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