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• How long does it take to grow a feather?

  They hatched, those chickadee babies, last Saturday, or at least that was the first time I could hear them as I sit on my back porch. By Monday, their requests for ' I need that bug much more than my brother does, Mother' were clearer and more insistent. Read More... Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:52 PM by Beth Patterson | 3 Comments Filed under: multi-tasking, purpose

• The whole Megillah, revisited

  This post is part of a synchroblog that is more or less monthly. This month's blogfest celebrates International Women's Day. And by the way, this is the 2nd anniversary month of the Virtual Tea House. Happy birthday to us! What I did this month is a little Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:24 PM by Beth Patterson | 12 Comments Filed under: celebration, courage, grace, Purim, purpose

• Come, sit by the fire a spell

  Visit One Single Impression for a plethora of poems about the November 30 prompt: welcoming Come, friend. Sit by the fire. Let's share some port, a cigar and some rich dark chocolate. The world has grown cold. Let the wood and the flames talk to us about Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:37 PM by Beth Patterson | 15 Comments Filed under: community, connections, one single impression, purpose

• Father's Day: Of Kings, Cobblers and Ashes

  5th Journal Entry in my 'Where's Home?' series for the writing contest. Sunday, June 15, 2008 the Central Oregon Fire Circle Community held the second Sunday Morning Fire Circle, sitting with 'Father's Day'. The first Sunday Morning Fire Circle was on Read More... Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 5:02 PM by Beth Patterson | 1 Comments Filed under: 7 generations, ancestors, brokenness, compassion, faith, father, purpose

• Oprah and Eckhart Tolle Teach A New Earth in Live Webcast Classes

  I figure everyone, everywhere, knows about this...but just in case you don't...here's an unlikely but powerful duo.  Would love to know what any of you who are signed up think about this class. --Beth, VTH Host It's Not Too Late to Join You can get Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 3:30 PM by Beth Patterson | 6 Comments Filed under: Eckhart, engaged spirituality, Oprah, purpose

• blessings at and for the copy machine

  Once upon a time, that Jewish mystic the Baal Shem Tov sent a group of his students on an important mission to help a needy couple in another town. When they returned, he was not so interested in hearing about their mission as about the minutiae of their Read More... Posted Sunday, November 04, 2007 2:30 PM by Beth Patterson | 1 Comments Filed under: art, blessings, purpose, wonder

• What's tea got to do with it?

  As the host of the Virtual Tea House , I'm being asked to tell a little about myself (see my bio at the end of this post) and talk more about the purpose of the website* . Over the next few days/weeks, I'll be doing just that, and will continue to invite Read More... Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:37 PM by Beth Patterson | 2 Comments Filed under: community, purpose, stories