Awareness of our common bond grows in these little events. Each gathering brings us a baby step closer to knowing how sacred this place is. [Read More]
Charging up our Song
Spirit cracked open
my mumblypeg mind with
heart-to-heart conversation.
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The Last of Us to Look Back
You pull hard enough and you can break
a connection a lot of times.
How many hundreds of miles were we marched
down our Trail of Tears before some of
those connections to our corn snapped?
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Tiny Corner
I am fond
of my tiny corner
of the world: small
towns, beautiful beaches,
artists, writers, musicians.
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Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers
Do echoes of knowledge persist in special landscapes even after wisdom-keepers die? Creation can inspire us to revive caring ways that mend broken bonds.
Gift
He needs nothing except the sun to come up another day to celebrate his quiet presence on the earth.
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Old Goat Plunges into Another Year
Fifty winters after my emergence on earth I climbed up a dune and surveyed the beach below. Over a hundred primates were reveling near the frothy hoof of Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain.
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Midterms in the Oregon Multiverse
Wouldn’t it be useful to return to our origins, be like the salmon and travel between worlds? We could compare how realities diverge over time; explore every fork, each different decision. That might give us creative ideas for improving our own dimensional prospects.
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Quantum Skip
I think, therefore I am
a Cartesian dictum in western philosophy
asserts primacy of consciousness
mind knowing itself more directly
than the external world.
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Brother Karson’s Jean Jacket
He will always be remembered as a guardian
who put his friends above all the things that most men fear-
few can tell the story of their life and say the things
he could’ve, say how true they stayed to the God-given
design of their soul.
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