MOMENT MINISTRIES
May 7, 2001
home address:  25921 SW Airport Ave.
Corvallis, OR 97333   541-753-3942
email at  a-morgan@peak.org


 
MORGAN'S MOMENT...
I laughed out loud
        a laugh drowned out
        by my ear protectors
        and the sound of my lawnmower.
Here I am I thought to myself
        going around and around
        two miles worth on his section
        meditating all the way.
Hey! I’m in fashion
        one with Buddhist meditation walkers
        one with Christian labyrinth walkers
        one with Monastic prayer walkers.
I walk with hands in front of me
        not properly folded
        my mind open to inspired thoughts
        my attention in focused-neutral.
This meditation section takes an hour
        about a gas filling worth
        with room for many a thought
        and space for spiritual insight.
You will never know how many “Moments”
        found birth in my walking
        when the roaring motor
        failed to block flowing thoughts.
I’m fortunate in my spiritual life
        to have built-in venues
        where I can be meditating
        while appearing to be working.
— Art Morgan 
ART’S THREE SCORE AND 10 PARTY
Thursday May 10
POTLUCK
(Second and Last Notice!)
Actually, this could be the last Thursday “Moment” of the season. The World Headquarters of Moment Ministries makes its annual move to Puget Sound country on May 22. (There is a possibility of a gathering on June 7, between graduation parties). 
The summer season allows “rolling moments,” when different individuals roll into the summer headquarters for a night or two. We’ll say more about that in our next mailing.
BLUE NEWS
Our Washington “Associated Moment Minister,” Don Whitney and wife Beth have co-produced a child named Colin. He weighed in at 4 pounds, 12 ounces, but is said to be gaining rapidly. Those who know these folks are more than excited at the news.
FOR INFORMATION
We keep getting new people on our list that don’t have a clue about Moment Ministries. It’s hard to bring people up to speed on what has gone on for 23 years. We do have a web page (thanks to Bill Gilbert). There is more there than anyone wants to know, plus some pictures. So, if someone you know wants more information, send them to our web page (that includes a view from out deck at the summer headquarters.
Ram Dass says:
“Getting old isn’t easy for a lot of us. Neither is living, neither is dying. We struggle against the inevitable and we all suffer because of it. We have been trying to find another way to look at the whole process of being born, growing old, changing and dying, some kind of perspective that might allow us to deal with what we perceive as big obstacles without having to be dragged through the drama of misery. Understanding that we have something—that’s unchangeable, beautiful, completely aware, and that continues no matter what, really helps.”
From Ram Dass — Still Here 

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JEAN’S READING – 2000 thru April 2001

The truth is that we get more comment from Jean’s book lists than all of my writing put together. I usually try to get it out in January, but not this year. So this list includes 2001 up to May. It will turn out to be an incomplete list, due to space limitations. You would think that all she does is read. Not so. As I write she’s out back with her chain saw working on next winter’s wood! We don’t read the same books. I may have read two or three on her list. None of the mysteries. My beat is the eternal mysteries. She likes her mysteries best because she gets to know the ending. 
Morning books, read daily:
Chopra, Deepak: Creating Affluence (6th year) Tileston, Mary Wilder: Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Breathnach, Sara Ban: Simple Abundance (4th  year) Sarton, May: A Durable Fire (Poems)
Beattie, Melody: Journey into the Heart (4th year) Phillips, J.B.: Letters to Young Churches 
 
Jean’s Non Fiction 2000/2001 (In order of reading):
Browning, Frank and Sharon Silva: An Apple Harvest Simonds, Nina: China Express, A Spoonful of Ginger 
Mendelson, Cheryl: Home Comforts  Stewart, Martha: What to Have for Dinner
Child, Julia and Jacques: Cooking at Home  (skimmed) Madison, Deborah: Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Waters, Alice: Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook  (read thru) Weil, Andrew: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health,  Spontaneous Healing
Lazenby, Gina: Feng Shui House Book Mary Engelbreit’s Sweet Treats Dessert Cookbook
Seppo Ed Farrey: 3 Bowls Vegetarian Recipes from an American Zen Buddhist
Cerwinske, Laura: In a Spiritual Style the Home as Sanctuary Wolfman, Peri: A Place For Everything
Hoppen, Stephanie: White on White  Manroe, Candace: Uncluttered Storage Room by Room
Messervy, Julie: The Inward Garden  Martin, Nancy: Tea Party Time
Branch, Susan: Girlfriends Forever Michio-Kushi: The Cancer Prevention Diet,    Macrobiotic Diet
Wilson, Judith: Inspiration, Decoration Streep, Peg: Spiritual Gardening
Lee, Vinny: Zen Interiors Wells, Jean and Valori: Through the Garden Gate
Wainrib, Barb: Prostate Cancer-A Guide for Women and the Men They Love
Viorst, Judith: Suddenly Sixty Lunden, Joan: Wake Up Calls-Making the Most Out of Life
Simontacchi, Carol: The Crazy Makers – How the food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming our Children
 
Jean’s Mysteries 2000 / 2001:
Lockridge, Francis and Richard: Murder Comes First Grossman, Jo: A Taste of Murder
Read, Miss: Tyler’s Row,  Village Diary,       Over the Gate Morice, Anne: Killing With Kindness
Freydont, Shelly: Backstage Murder  Lockridge, Frances and Richard: Stand Up to Die
Cohen, Nancy: Permed To Death Fforde, Katie: Life Skills,  Living Dangerously
Robinson, Patricia: A Trick of Light Sussman, Susan: Audition for Murder
Marsh, Naigo: Artists on Crime, Death in a White Tie Gilman, Dorothy: Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station (Plus others)
McMafferty, Taylor: Bed Bugs Eichler, Selma: Murder Can Singe Your Old Flame
Dereske, Jo: Miss Zukas in Death’s Shadow Wolzien, Valerie: The Student Body
Lamalle, Cecile: Appetite for Murder Borthwick,  Coup de Grace
Roberts, Lora: Murder Follows Money O’Kane, Leslie: Ruff Way to Go
King, Peter: Death al Dente Claire, Edie: Never Sorry
Pilcher, Rosamund: Winter Solstice Andrews, Donna: Murder with Peacocks,       Murder with Muffins
Stewart, Mary: This Rough Magic Freeman, Mary: Devil’s Trumpet
Conant, Susan: A New Leash on Death Morton, Brian: Starting Out in the Evening
Stevenson, D.E.: The Blue Sapphire Ferris, Monica: Crewel World,     Framed in Lace,    A Stitch in Time
Braun, Lillian: The Cat Who Robbed a Bank, The Cat Who Smelled a Rat Tyler, Lee: The Case of the Missing Links
Hager, Jean: Weigh Dead,  Sew Deadly Holtzer, Susan: The Wedding Game
Beaton, M.C.: Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden;    …and The Fairies of Fryfam Page, Katherine: The Body in the Big Apple
O’Marie, Sister Carol Anne: Requiem at the Refuge; The Body in the Moonlight Swann, E.L.: Night Gardening
 
Jean appreciates news of new mysteries and authors. Her e-mail is j-morgan@peak.org