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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...

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Lesson # 5: if it ain't broke, don't fix it
30 April 08 01:49 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   

So on a post last week, "The Dog's in Heaven and the Cat's in Jail" in a follow up comment, I came to Geronimo's (aka Damn Dog's) defense. I wrote about 4 things that he has been teaching us about living and loving. Here's one I forgot, and since it's Read More...

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Guest post: A little bread, cheese and tulips for the soul
04 March 08 05:17 PM | Beth Patterson | 4 Comments   

Poem of the Month Club: Tulips for the Soul of It This guest blog is from Karen (Krayna) Castelbaum. Krayna is a psychotherapist, psycho-dramatist ,spiritual director, dream diva, poet, artist, and all-round mensch. Plus, she’s a lot of fun to hang with! Read More...

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Taking the Secret Something-or-Other game to heart
25 December 07 11:59 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   

At the office where I work, we do a Secret Santa/ Harry Hanukkah/Kerry Kwanzaa routine where we draw names and then for 2-3 weeks in December we look for any and all opportunities to do really sweet and cool things for that person. I have found that doing Read More...

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blessings at and for the copy machine
04 November 07 02:30 PM | Beth Patterson | 1 Comments   

Once upon a time, that Jewish mystic the Baal Shem Tov sent a group of his students on an important mission to help a needy couple in another town. When they returned, he was not so interested in hearing about their mission as about the minutiae of their Read More...

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