I am one of the few people living on the north Oregon coast with direct ancestry to slavery from Africa. Fewer than two percent of the north coast population is African-American. [Read More]
Teachings in Trauma
These things we call miracles, healings, or unexplainable woo-woo are real and innate aspects of us as human beings living in this world.
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Where are the songs?
That was then and this is now,
with a world still living with too much the same.
Times moving faster, disparities widening, racism raising,
reeling, searching for an anthem, trying to find the right song…
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11/9
America’s presidential elections are grand sporting events. Since my youth I’ve heard people talk about Republicans and Democrats as if they’re arch-rivals in football. The drawbacks of this two-team league became blatantly clear to many of us when they nominated Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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Drift Boats on the Klickitat
This is a hastening tributary —
it’s not the wider river
with headwaters gathered in the Rockies
which divulges its volume beyond Astoria.
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Blade Runner 2049: Do You Know What’s Real?
At the end of the day, at the end of all the deals, meetings, compromises, firings, and what-all-else that goes on in the movie business, there is the FILM. That dimension behind the screen that opens a world away from you and yet extends toward you and into your brain to embrace and transport you.
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The Owls of Oslo
The Owls of Oslo
I cannot see
I hear them over the din of cars
and bells
and the drunken cacophony
of Saturday evening
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Looking at Pennywise: Does God Look Back?
If someone grew up in an atmosphere of true horror (i.e. abuse or war), is it possible a divine appearance in their life could initially be perceived as horror, even as demonic? [Read More]
Offspring
The Deer raise their brown heads
to make contact by eyes
and seem to acknowledge,
I’m the harmless neighbor.
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Everlast
Medicine smoke circles
Over me
Rising
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