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

[Theta Brentnall]

Of course I am, but sometimes the grandkids kidnap me and tie me down so 
I have to spend every  moment with them.  You know how it goes.

Theta

On 9/13/2010 10:27 AM, auntiesash wrote:
> Well - if they are in Boardman, pretty safe guess that they will cruise this
> direction before heading south.  Their kids and grandkids are in Hillsboro
> (but I pretend that they are coming to visit me).
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Indiglow<indiglow at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
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>    
>> Lol!  I just looked it up - it's 195 miles to Boardman...  still...  I've
>> got a car and can travel there!  Or I have plenty of room for up to 3  or 4
>> families/couples  to overnight if it's too far to do in a day-trip.  Only
>> caveat is that friendly dogs will shed all over the place.
>>
>>
>> Jana
>> --- On Mon, 9/13/10, auntiesash<auntiesash at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>      
>>> 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
>>
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