TheBanyanTree: why I get turned off, and how I turn back on

[Indiglow]

Woodburn - about 24 miles So. of Portland - but having spent so much time in CA all of OR doesn't seem all that big!  Are you in this neck of the woods also?
 
J

--- On Mon, 9/13/10, auntiesash <auntiesash at gmail.com> wrote:


From: auntiesash <auntiesash at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: why I get turned off, and how I turn back on
To: "A comfortable place to meet other people and exchange your own *original* writings." <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>
Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 10:15 AM


Um... Jana?  Where are you??

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Indiglow <indiglow at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> You're in Oregon?  For how long?  Come visit!!!!!!  Maybe we can get
> Monique & Andrew to make the trek and have a mini-gathering even.  Monique?
>
> Jana
>
> Jana
>
> --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: why I get turned off, and how I turn back on
> To: "A comfortable place to meet other people and exchange your own
> *original* writings." <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>
> Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 9:34 AM
>
>
> I like that quote, Julie.  Yes, I am the one who considers myself a Zen
> Pagan Methodist, although animist works for me, too.  We got to Boardman, OR
> yesterday, and my church moment was standing on the edge of the Columbia
> River, almost a mile across here, and watching a glorious red-gold-purple
> sunset in a sky with no interruptions from horizon to horizon.  And after, a
> night sky with the Milky Way spilling across a field of brighter stars.  As
> our pastor says, that preaches, sister!
>
> Theta
>
> On 9/13/2010 7:33 AM, Indiglow wrote:
> > I so agree with you, Julie!  I think it was another Spooner (Theta, was
> it you?) who long ago described herself as a Zen-Animist-Methodist, and that
> stuck in my mind as quite sensible.  For the most part, I'm content with the
> Methodist church which tends to focus on community and "do unto others"
> (stewardship) - and for the most part leaves the dogma alone.  But there are
> times when a flowing river or a good wild wind or a gurgling baby are all I
> need to feel connected to what I call God.
> >   J
> >
> > --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Julie Anna Teague<jateague at indiana.edu>  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have gone to some church or other most of my life, albeit with
> > years-long lapses thrown in here and there.  I suppose you'd say I have
> > always been a spiritual-minded person, a truth seeker.  "Keep the
> > company of those who seek the truth--run from those who have found it."
> > So says Václav Havel, and I have to say I agree.
>



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