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

[Theta Brentnall]

That's always a moving target.  We're in Boardman today, then going to 
John Day fossil  beds for two days, and back to Boardman on Thursday.  
Then we'll go to Portland to visit the kids for a while.  Like I said, a 
moving target.

Theta

On 9/13/2010 10:12 AM, Indiglow 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?
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> --- 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
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> 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!
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> Theta
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> On 9/13/2010 7:33 AM, Indiglow wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Julie Anna Teague<jateague at indiana.edu>   wrote:
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>> 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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