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• no words for the deepest stuff

  when someone says 'may I have a word with you?' you know they don't mean it what can we possibly say in one word? and for that matter what might have been the word that the grieving parent implored the Christ to say: 'just one word from you and my daughter Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:51 AM by Beth Patterson | 14 Comments Filed under: emptiness, joy, one single impression, reflection, repose

• a remedy for what ails the world

  This is this week's submission for One Single Impression (prompt # 31): Fleeting One Single Impression is a community of poets writing and sharing haiku and other poetic forms. Each week a new prompt is offered for inspiration. So much of the poetry on Read More... Posted Saturday, September 27, 2008 5:13 PM by Beth Patterson | 19 Comments Filed under: 7 generations, emptiness, hope, living more consciously, spirituality of subtraction

• Of what am I so afraid? Thing 2

  From the second post in this series, about why-ever in the world I could be so afraid of silence is the quote I'm living with: "I abandon all that I think I am, all that I hope to be, all that I believe I possess. I let go of the past, withdraw my grasping Read More... Posted Saturday, July 21, 2007 7:17 AM by Beth Patterson | 0 Comments Filed under: emptiness, hope, openness to life