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"Hi honey, I'm home" # 1: Bad-Boy-Lilies-of-the-Valley
20 May 08 05:44 PM | Beth Patterson | 3 Comments   
From now until the contest is over on June 25th I'll be doing a series of photos and other stuff that illustrate 'home'. This is a cleverly designed marketing ploy to get you to write/photograph/do a YouTube video, etc. of 'where's home' for you. I'm 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...
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...
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...
Happy 1st birthday to the Virtual Tea House!
09 February 08 12:07 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   
"Abu Yazid made his periodic journey to purchase supplies at the bazaar in the city of Hamadhan--a distance of several hundred miles. When he returned home, he discovered a colony of ants in the cardamon seeds. He carefully packed up the seeds again and Read More...
Music Fruit Trees
09 December 07 03:49 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   
A sister site to Virtual Tea House... Crossroads Dispatches. This one is on fire. Especially taken by Evelyn's blog post from yesterday, "Music Fruit Trees" And a quote that speaks to my heart about the power of story, quoted in another recent post on Read More...
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...
A voice from inside the dryer
11 November 07 11:24 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   
I haven't ironed anything in 3 years. I don't even own a real iron--only a travel version. Even having one of those cute fold-down ironing boards in my cottage won't entice me to iron my clothes--and I have to tell you that I like linen in the summer! Read More...
If you build it, they will come!
23 September 07 06:45 AM | Beth Patterson | 2 Comments   
As members of the Central Oregon Community Fire Circle sat around the fire in my backyard last night and shared sweetness, pain, laughter and large doses of love, I was thinking about the meaning of 'church'. A couple of the members of the community, Read More...
How we do anything is how we do everything
15 July 07 01:38 PM | Beth Patterson | 2 Comments   
Boy is it hot here in Central Oregon. I don't remember it being this hot, this early, this long, in my limited experience of 4 summers living here! We got almost no snow in Bend, Oregon this past winter, so the ground is dry and the plants are needing Read More...

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