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 love. 2. There is enough of everything in the ...

  Here's my collage for today.  It comes from a space of feeling the wind of the spirit of change and new directions moving through my life. Would love to know any reactions, responses you might have. Technorati Tags: grief,collage

This week the Virtual Tea House has been graced by receiving an award called 'Noblesse Oblige'.    From the Oxford English Dictionary:  the term noblesse oblige ''suggests noble ancestry constrains to honorable behavior; privilege entails to responsibility.'' Being a noble meant that you had responsibilities to lead, manage, ...

I am back from 10 days in the womb of Kauai....warm sun, lovely healing water, and surrounded by so many folks living aloha!  Right now HOPE is high in my heart, body and mind.  Some years ago there was a rift in my immediate family...between my son, Kip  and daughter, Shannon-Anakha.  At the time it was especailly ...

Dear Teahouse Community, Beth asked me to post my holiday letter, so here it is. This virtual world is still vastly uncharted territory for me, so I don't get into it as often as I'd like to -- there is so much actual territory I'm responsible for... I don't see how y'all do it all.  Dear Friends and Family,It seems silly to suggest that I am ...

Visit for a plethora of poems about the November 23 prompt: childhood memories on the move, south mother with  crushing sadness worse in winter loving the warm sand and gentle breezes palm bay me, two, sitting on the john somewhere south of the mason-dixon line feet dangling huge palmetto bug crawling across the floor towards ...

''Dang girl, you write good!'' Thank you for sharing these lovely reflections with the world. So glad you went home from that fire circle 'fuller' than you ! Love to you!

My niece Dione, who I was fortunate to help raise, and who of course, helped raise me at the same time...with her son beautiful son Edan. Mom died 3 years before Dione was born. Dione was very close to my Father for the first 6 years of her life before he died.  My Mother lives on in both Dione and Edan, as does my ...

Technorati Tags: spirituality,honoring,humor We had a bizarre happening  today, March 19, 2008.  Our good friend, Jack Kennedy, spiritual director, teacher of Ignatian spirituality and much-loved human being from Portland, Oregon was proclaimed both dead and then miraculously alive all in one day. As Jack is one of my ...

  We live in a society which is dedicated to twosomes: two hands, two feet, two breasts, two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two knees, two thighs--one could go on.  And then there is the story of Noah on the ark and how all the animals came in two by two--seemingly fulfilling some idea of perfection, and, of course, the possibility of ...

Subtitle: Can I return these new spectacles if they make me too peaceful, joyful and contented?  A few years ago I had a dream that rocked my world and will stay with me for the rest of my life.  Here it is in a nutshell: Summer 2002 Title of dream: Perfect Vision I need glasses. I call the eye doctor's office and  say to ...

When I was in Denver earlier this month I had dinner with a friend of 17 years, Rudite. We worked together at hospice while I was in seminary.  We don't talk much in between when I visit Denver, but we always try to get together when I'm in town.  I was 15 minutes late for dinner and she was reading a book when I got to the ...

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, both under 20 years old, stayed after the circle broke up and had tea with me and my ...

  The advertising guru who developed the most recognized campaign ever for Oscar Mayer died this week.  Since a kid, I've loved the Oscar Mayer song...I.....wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener...that is what I'd truly like to be-e-e; cuz if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener....everyone would be in love ...