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• The courage to see clearly

  Visit for a plethora of poems about the November 16 prompt: courage Competing in triathlons she is an inspirational speaker. Climbing mountains she plays guitar and sings beautifully. Living alone she laughs at herself stays positive, serene and connected. Read More... Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:07 AM by Beth Patterson | 16 Comments Filed under: acceptance, living life on purpose, complaint-free world, one single impression, finding our voice, autumn

• a puzzlement*

  dried dull yellow big leaf maple bouncing and skittering backside up on legs I can't understand following me dancing the unpredictable wind into my heart as gift gorgeous scarlet vine leaf maple doesn't dance as well and the exquisite tiny yellow weeping Read More... Posted Sunday, October 26, 2008 8:14 AM by Beth Patterson | 16 Comments Filed under: one single impression, gift, autumn

• A sterling question

  Never could figure out why the fascination with gold. It's pretty enough but so are Russian sage blossoms. Is it the rarity? Frogs are becoming rare. Maybe we should buy groceries or petrol with a life size token of a tree frog. Who makes the gold, standard? Read More... Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:13 PM by Beth Patterson | 21 Comments Filed under: one single impression, local economy, barter

• On not making a travesty of tapestry

  I don't believe in coincidence. I don't believe in serendipity. I do believe in synchronicity. The difference? The first term is random. The second term is whimsical. The third makes me want to view the tapestry from the front side instead of always from Read More... Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 12:25 PM by Beth Patterson | 22 Comments Filed under: one single impression, synchronicity

• Raven+Plum Pit = High Drama

  flickr: Raven yakking by Amkhosla bereft of progeny the plum sapling turns embarrassed colors lonely smallish plum is snatched and eaten, pit-in by the shiny mouthy anxious raven 'winter's coming' raven dances and chants gifting a prophesy the four of Read More... Posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 6:06 PM by Beth Patterson | 19 Comments Filed under: faithfulness, poetry, one single impression

• Ready for the low down

  This is this week's submission for One Single Impression (prompt # 29): Seeds Please visit that site for lots of other original submissions on this same topic...or, better yet, write and post your own on your blog and link to the OSI site! One Single Read More... Posted Sunday, September 14, 2008 6:36 PM by Beth Patterson | 14 Comments Filed under: 7 generations, blooming where we're planted, one single impression, capacity

• Take it down. It will make good firewood

  This poem is a submission to One Single Impression (prompt # 28): Defenses Down Visit that site to experience some amazing poetry/photography about 'defenses down'. flickr:Antares Region southern sky @ La Palma by ocupado de fence ez down stars got out Read More... Posted Sunday, September 07, 2008 3:38 AM by Beth Patterson | 12 Comments Filed under: liminal space, connections, gotta play to win, curiosity, freedom, fences, one single impression

• Nothing spectacular

  This post is for last week's writing prompt: One Single Impression: Spectacle If I could see with the eyes of love Nothing could be a spectacle. Nothing could be outside the circle. If I would see with the eyes of love All would be spectacular. All would Read More... Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 3:03 PM by Beth Patterson | 10 Comments Filed under: acceptance, prayer, joy, delight, engaged spirituality, brokenness, one single impression

• One Way: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire

  After years of indoctrination In which there was always a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof is the way of death* Aching eyes of my heart saw a deeper truth in these words: that the way that judges the rightness of a way leads to death Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:02 PM by Beth Patterson | 11 Comments Filed under: cartography, surrender, Rumi, one single impression