There is a uniqueness in place for a reason that is too often misunderstood or ignored by the conceit of our precieved “knowledge.” [Read More]
My Homeless Street Friends
Some people are wild at heart, some people are afraid of other people and money, some people are sick, and some people don’t know what they’re doing, bless them. [Read More]
Backwater muse floods the borders of Babylon
What does it mean to make art in the boonies, pore long over sentences that never scale the muckety-muck steps of public attention? How does one who loves the civic beauty of words keep forking them onto the floor? [Read More]
The Eagles Flew Over
I will be 85 in a few days. My grandparents homesteaded in Oregon. Our family carries the memory of old growth forests, the rivers alive with salmon, the wildness and beauty that used to be. [Read More]
Vinyl in the Promised Land
I drop the needle into the grooves and it crackles to life, the buzz of an amplifier, unscrubbed, signifies the tactile–even if we don’t know by whose, what follows was surely made by human hands. [Read More]
Message, Moo-Cow, Messiah
It seems absurd on the surface that anyone who brandishes the word “Christ” would feel more affinity for the ways of plutocrats than the teachings of our compassionate rabbi. Yet when the Word becomes flesh, it is a socially-conditioned reflex for humans to fixate on the box rather than the contents. [Read More]
The Shining Stars of Our Lineages
Every day we make choices and decisions that affect our kin, and as a result, everyone else. We communicate to the outside world through our choices, without having to say a word. [Read More]
Gov. Kate Brown’s chosen secretary of state serves who?
Voter access is sacred to Oregonians. It should have been an obvious factor in Brown’s appointment of a new secretary of state. Secretary Clarno’s actions suggest Brown may have used a different political equation. [Read More]
Seeing through the enemy and seeing the self
In the grand master scheme of things, I don’t believe that enemies exist. At a core level. We are all made of the same stuff, right? The same star stuff and blood and bone and breath. [Read More]
Yo Dems
Who will renew confidence in America’s presidency? What personal qualities do they need? Should they be a practical hard-working dynamo, a civic super-nerd, an inspirational orator, a venerable change-agent? [Read More]
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