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• Trust women? Blog for Choice Day 2010

  Trust Women Blog for Choice Day 2010. I’m a day late (January 22nd is THE day…) but I wanted to join my voice to this important dialogue, birthed by the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. I started my career in Planned Parenthood in the early Read More... Posted Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:34 PM by Beth Patterson | 8 Comments Filed under: choices, finding our voice

• Guest post: The choice for compassion- a very personal view by Tom Leach

  Some of you may remember a post I made in May of this past year called Douglas firs were our Sanctuary. It was about a remarkable conversation with a friend who was terminally ill and choosing to hasten her death in accordance with the Oregon Death with Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:05 AM by Beth Patterson | 10 Comments Filed under: choices, compassion, euthanasia, grief, practicing our dying

• Repose

  "...and I I took the road more traveled by and that has made all the difference." ---A bold-faced re-frame of the last phrase of Robert Frost's profound poem, 'The Road Not Taken' Many crave respect, admiration, love. Few care less. I prefer the road Read More... Posted Sunday, March 08, 2009 11:25 AM by Beth Patterson | 18 Comments Filed under: choices, one single impression, repose