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• the water never lies

  What you hear from the water Remember. --David Whyte, All the True Vows listening to your muffled breath through that place in your back smelling the distinct aroma of sleep on you finding sweet solace in your unfurrowed brow mumbling to you from deep Read More... Posted Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:39 AM by Beth Patterson | 13 Comments Filed under: contentment, one single impression

• the big slide

  what if instead of running we slid gracefully …out of time …out of space …out of patience? Sliding gracefully out of patience. Doesn’t that have a different tonal quality than ‘running out of patience’? 1910 Guy Zinn, New York AL, sliding back into first Read More... Posted Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:21 AM by Beth Patterson | 19 Comments Filed under: one single impression, spirituality of baseball

• somnambudance

  somnambudance: a condition of sleep-dancing with such grace, creativity and precision that one appears to be awake; condition may in rare cases imitate insomina. Making up words to describe what I dreamed after watching ‘This is It’, realizing that the Read More... Posted Sunday, February 21, 2010 9:37 PM by Beth Patterson | 11 Comments Filed under: insomina, one single impression

• No longer suspecting

  One of my teachers, Jonathan,   says: There are three things that we need to know, deeper than our own breath: 1. We are Love: nothing more, nothing less.           Calcified, reified, rarified, embodied Read More... Posted Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:23 AM by Beth Patterson | 15 Comments Filed under: grace, gratitude, one single impression

• head over heels

  Left. Right. It doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t even matter if you turn. But if you’re going to take the curve on two wheels you better be ready. Consequences abound. Kansas State Parks-Wilson Lake (Hell Creek Area) Submission for the One Single Impression Read More... Posted Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:38 PM by Beth Patterson | 13 Comments Filed under: consequences, one single impression

• what if he’s right?

  At age three and a half to four and a half Regardless of what the weather appears like to me Everyday he wakes up Patters into my room if he’s not already sleeping with me and says, ‘Grandma Beth! Grandma Beth! It’s a sunny day outside! Let’s go play!’ Read More... Posted Sunday, January 24, 2010 12:30 AM by Beth Patterson | 20 Comments Filed under: joy, one single impression

• chinking away at chaos

  Like molecules in a heating beaker Like stars moving centripetally A glimpse of the patterns of their journeys Might chink into the solidified fluid mystery of our own. Nothing is random Only poorly comprehended. Reflection at the Japanese Gardens, Portland, Read More... Posted Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:08 AM by Beth Patterson | 24 Comments Filed under: one single impression

• when you’re walking on thin ice anyway

  untitled poem by Eunice Tietjens The stone grows old. Eternity is not for stones. But I shall go down from This airy space, this swift white peace, this stinging exultation And time will close about Me, and my soul stir to the Rhythm of the daily round. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:01 AM by Beth Patterson | 9 Comments Filed under: eternity, impermanence, one single impression

• wings of understanding

  “In a boat down a fast-running creek, it feels like trees on the bank are rushing by. What seems to be changing around us is rather the speed of our craft leaving this world.” --Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī Photo taken at springs flowing directly out of Read More... Posted Saturday, January 02, 2010 9:24 PM by Beth Patterson | 20 Comments Filed under: amazement, ancestors, beauty, becoming more human, dreams, one single impression

• wanderlove or is it just lust?

  It might be true that all things come to those who wait. that all sights are visible in one’s heart. that any experience is everyone’s experience. That being said… I still want to slide into deeper waters, the secret aqueducts, the chambers of the heart Read More... Posted Sunday, December 27, 2009 12:19 PM by Beth Patterson | 18 Comments Filed under: adventure, one single impression, senses

• Me and my hip wait for the solstice*

  At the juncture where the iliacus and the psoas muscles entwine On the corner of my right hip and my future self All manner of constrictions are brought to the surface So they can be have their say. Last week, December 12, I fell down six stairs onto Read More... Posted Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:03 PM by Beth Patterson | 11 Comments Filed under: body wisdom, one single impression

• don’t pretend you don’t get it

  that moment when you realize that someone you just met as if casually at a party in say, Winnipeg knows a friend of yours--the only person you know who lives in Mauritania you get it and that moment when you realize that you are made of the same stuff Read More... Posted Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:43 PM by Beth Patterson | 22 Comments Filed under: connectios, curiosity, one single impression

• migratory madness

  Three little stories on one prompt: migration John Day Fossil Beds , John Day, Oregon 1. diagonal pilgrimage across the chenille throw pillow dust mites on tour wonder what they pack in their overnight bags? 2. baby elk down in the canyon bed moving with Read More... Posted Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:18 PM by Beth Patterson | 15 Comments Filed under: one single impression

• Where Michelangelo may have gotten his inspiration

  Wait. Hold the phone. Did Michelangelo take one of those Inland Passage tours? Had a hard time getting to Vancouver from Rome in the 1500’s? Maybe he just dreamed the scene above and here came the hands of man and god, voila. The creative process is like Read More... Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:31 AM by Beth Patterson | 11 Comments Filed under: ancestors, creativity, one single impression

• found art goes metaphysical

  Struggling to become incarnated embodied really live in this body and not my always-editing mind, on what grounds do I engage what re-incarnation might entail? The closest I can get to understanding reincarnation is making art of of found pieces of what Read More... Posted Sunday, November 15, 2009 3:25 AM by Beth Patterson | 18 Comments Filed under: art, becoming more human, one single impression