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

[auntiesash]

Yeah - I live in Portland and Monique is just across the river in Vancouver!

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Indiglow <indiglow at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Live to the point of tears.
> - Albert Camus
>
> Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm
> to
> the world.
> - Voltaire
>



-- 
Live to the point of tears.
- Albert Camus

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to
the world.
- Voltaire