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About Lolly Champion

Lolly Champion has been putting words together for years for her marketing career and health and wellness classes taught throughout Oregon. Now she has the great luxury of time to take on the wonderful struggle of assembling words into poems that speak to a variety of conditions, including dealing with time, loss, aging and the disappearing of the personal to the technology of the impersonal. She thinks of her poems as lazy essays without punctuation.

Wondering How…?

February 7, 2020 by Lolly Champion Leave a Comment

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]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature

Open Letter to R.J. Reynolds

September 7, 2019 by Lolly Champion Leave a Comment

To: R. J. Reynolds/British America Tobacco of the United Kingdom; Susan Cameron, CEO; Thomas Wajnert, Board Chairman; Executive officers; Shareholders; Employees and R. J. Reynolds’s consumers, worldwide From: Lolly Champion and the Community of Cannon Beach, Oregon Re: Request R. J. Reynolds/British America Tobacco assume responsibility for environmental recycling of the toxic butt litter manufactured […]

Filed Under: Nature, Politics, ULE Tagged With: British American Tobacco of the United Kingdom, Cigarette butts, litter, R.J. Reynolds, Susan Cameron, Thomas Wajnert

The Parable of the Waters

August 21, 2018 by Lolly Champion 1 Comment

And it came to pass all the waters of the planet roared
to the God of the Universe and Handmaiden Moon. [Read More]

Filed Under: Nature, Poetry, Spirit, ULE

Civics lesson on the legacy of shame

March 17, 2018 by Lolly Champion Leave a Comment

I could not control my unexpected tears seeing that this is the new reality for these people the press and politicians keep mislabeling by calling them “kids.” [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics

Where are the songs?

February 6, 2018 by Lolly Champion Leave a Comment

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…
[Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

More Gleanings

Memoir

February 13, 2026 By Steven Mayer Leave a Comment

End of the Street

August 4, 2025 By Steven Mayer 2 Comments

Here Try Some of This Ointment

April 17, 2024 By Watt Childress 4 Comments

We are the Luminaries

August 8, 2023 By Watt Childress 2 Comments

Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

June 19, 2023 By Watt Childress 5 Comments

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  • Watt Childress
    June 13, 2026 at 2:40 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I can see how one comes to that conclusion, given all the frustration that accompanies disempowerment. Here's a truth that
  • DHCG
    June 7, 2026 at 2:49 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    “ They could encourage togetherness by example, tee-up other practical reforms to help free folks from the overreach of top-down
  • Susan Banyas
    June 7, 2026 at 11:00 am
    on Opening the Book of Indigenous Grief
    "The future is made from grief that has been grieved." Thank you Cliff. Thank you Little People, for this gift
  • Watt Childress
    June 6, 2026 at 4:18 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I imagine most members of city and county governments here on the coast support open community potlucks. It would help
  • Watt Childress
    June 6, 2026 at 4:13 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I'd like to believe it would never get to that point, where someone would be penalized with a fine and/or
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