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Every now and then, I am lucky enough to comes across a friendly little video that uses a sledge hammer to wake me up. It’s so easy for me to slip into the dream of “The American Dream” and pretend I don’t bob and weave on the currents of capitalism. ...
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I am the universal donor Everyone can receive …my love. i AM love As are we all; A single love Radiating from a Single Source . In response to the prompt "single" from Figments of Imagination at One Single Impression ....
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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...
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Okay, so if there is one post that I really want to be read it is this one. My “father-in-law equivalent” is a scientists’ scientist. An Atheist whom I normally feel it is safer to talk to about food and gardening and politics then...
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After 42 years of living on this Earth, I decided it was high-time I bake a “real” pie. Oh…several months ago, I had came to the same decision and then chickened-out and made a “galette” instead. A Galette is sort like a big turn-over. It’s...
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Poem of the Month ~ February 2010 What a month! Ground Hog’s Day, Mardi Gras, Purim, Chinese New Year! Wow! A veritable explosion of carnival energy! A while back some famous dudes, wrote: “Let your freak flag fly!” So go on…enjoy those marvelous eccentricities...
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A couple of Sundays ago I spent a few hours in the kitchen/dining room of the local Bend's Community Center (BCC), where every Sunday, 52 weeks a year, full nutritious meals, along with sack lunches to go, are served for those who are homeless or underemployed....
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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...
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It's really silly. But it's one of the best gifts I've ever received. While we grew up, Mom was pretty strict about how much time my brothers, my sister, and I spent watching TV or playing video games or the like. So, like all things limited, when you...
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I have made myself way too busy in the last month, and have neglected more important things. My need to check in with the VTH finally overcame the intertia of administrative stuff and has led me to write about a book I just finished. I realize this isn't...
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Look at your hands. They may hold nothing. Yet they hold the planing of wood, and the picking up of a stone To skip three times across the river And the holding of another hand, dry and cracked, but comfortable Across a divide. They certainly have no...
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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!’...
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Trust Women Blog for Choice Day 2010. I’m a day late (January 22nd is THE day…) but I wanted to join my voice to this important dialogue, birthed by the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. I started my career in Planned Parenthood in the early...
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I’ve learned that karma comes around more quickly the more open I am to learning life lessons. I’ve learned that sleeping outside around my firepit can push my reset button from just about any disturbance in my peace of mind. I’m learning that...
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Because it’s likely in everyone’s best interest that I do not. Because I am not sure how exactly and completely I can help. And I want to be ready to help. Let me take a step back. Oh, Haiti. Of course, you are on my mind. You are on my mind. Your images...
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I am living your dream. At least the one we talk about at parties I’m an architect You’ve always wanted to be one I’m a drummer You’ve always wanted to be one I’m single You’ve often thought that there were some benefits to that (don’t tell Roger, the...
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tonight i drove back from chicago eating two tangerines in the dark spitting seeds into the palm of my hand returned to laundry the cat demanding her due attention clean dishes stacked on the counter like mayan temples and a new space and perhaps you're...
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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,...
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This past week, many of us have had sleepless nights over the horrors in Haiti. This poem by Gary Snyder has arisen in my mind as I've considered personal and communal responses. For the past 15 years, I have lived my life to the rhythm of this poem;...
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I’m two weeks out from writing my list. Oh man, I need some self-compassion for my lack of consistency. This mid-week list --we’ll just say it’s for the last two. Anyone for an absolution? Do I hear an amen? 1. I almost forgot to make my list of things...
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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....
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Feeling full and happy from my vegan meal …. I sit in front of the roaring fire…contemplating the dinner I just finished… I wonder…. What would my life be like if, as a baby, I was fed breast-milk from a healthy Mom instead of formula from a fearful one?...
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It’s actually more like ten days. Strange for a girl who, not-so-long-ago, had a hard time imagining even one night without it. The part that is even stranger is that I haven’t missed it. In retrospect, the first week of my month-long...
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It seems like a simple enough question, doesn’t it? The problem is, for most of us typical Americans, we really and truly have no idea what it is we are actually eating. Even the obvious things like a piece of fruit or a vegetable could be coated in pesticides,...
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From a new great blogger I just ‘met’, Hannah Miet. Her site is called ‘My Soul is a Butterfly’ . She’s one of a growing cadre of young 20 something writers who mix soulfulness, erotica, rage and beauty all together in a delectable soup. Check out her...
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