Myrabeth

  Sometimes the champion Wields nothing but a steady stethoscope Vast experience of the garden of the human condition And her own radiant heart.   Iceland volcano erupting, Winter 2010 Dedicated to my dear friend and former colleague, Deanna...( read more ) Read Full Story

This is the second guest post poem by Bonnie Lamont. The first was the unbearable lightness of being. This is a guest post from Bonnie Lamont Rose. Bonnie lives in Bend Oregon. Her life has been about seeking what’s true and real in a world that insists...( read more ) Read Full Story

Many of the VTH readers know about Sounds True CDs—but did you know you can download zillions of talks via their site onto your ipod? Enough for a month of Sundays. Sounds True: Insights at the Edge...( read more ) Read Full Story

Note: In May of this year my position at KIDS Center here in Bend, Oregon, was reorganized for budgetary and organizational efficiency. Possibly good for the organization—difficult for me personally, but immensely rewarding as a time to refocus, reframe...( read more ) Read Full Story

  Without a thought What I’ve tried for years to accomplish Was already done.   Submission for One Single Impression prompt ‘try’.   Check it out—lots of good stuff, not too trying! Technorati Tags: one single impression...( read more ) Read Full Story

This is a guest post from Bonnie Lamont Rose. Bonnie lives in Bend Oregon. Her life has been about seeking what’s true and real in a world that insists on remaining a mystery. This search for her is a continual process of pealing away layers from the...( read more ) Read Full Story

  The most profound monuments    are always the same    and a tiny bit different.   The following photos were taken at Great Basin National Park in Nevada, at about 11,000 ft on Mt. Wheeler in a magnificent bristlecone pine...( read more ) Read Full Story

No surface contentment, this. Instead, life lived on the edge of its own inscrutable terms. Resistance is thankfully futile. The juice, the sweetness will have its final say Nothing better can be corporately imagined or by golly, we’d have already created...( read more ) Read Full Story

Somewhere along year two of graduate school single parent working full time I realized that the pass/fail option was a helpful one. Who cares once the diploma is yours if you get a B or an A? The passing option became a lifeline and a new way of being....( read more ) Read Full Story

‘The parts of us that remain unloved will eventually turn against us.’ --Carl Jung This is a submission for a synchroblog on Christian perspectives on immigration reform. Check out this link (Facebook) for some great thinking about this topic. Here are...( read more ) Read Full Story