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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...

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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...

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Sheer lunacy
22 February 08 01:45 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   

As I sat with family and friends around a fire in my backyard on Wednesday night, the 20th, we watched the total lunar eclipse and cooked 'dogs' and s'mores...and laughed, and watched the moon, howling just a tad.. It was a delightful experience here Read More...

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Shards of light
08 December 07 05:47 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   

After Apple Picking by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking Read More...

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Blog Action Day: Through the Looking Glass
15 October 07 01:23 AM | Beth Patterson | 8 Comments   

Several years ago, I attended a fire circle in western Colorado, where I then lived, on Grand Mesa outside of Grand Junction. The fire was in conjunction with a plant spirit medicine class being taught by a shaman in the Huichol and Nahuatl traditions Read More...

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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...

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Keeping the fire burning
01 June 07 02:49 AM | Beth Patterson | 0 Comments   

Note from the May 27-28 All Night Fire Circle The Central Oregon Fire Circle Community had an all-night fire circle on May 27-28 (Memorial Day weekend). We focused our circle on the topic of ‘ancestors’, and had a lovely dialogue about our physical, animal Read More...

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