Cultures native to Turtle Island consider frogs to be among the “first people.” Could this be a way of acknowledging elder relatives who can help humans jump back from desolation?
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Six Eras
From up here, the little village packs in more and more till tempers rise. The brown old rock looms over hunters of tranquility, rare to find elsewhere. And peace…how they look for a moment of peace. We have enough to share.
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Here Try Some of This Ointment
Imagine life where everyone pitches in with a mix of chores and creative leisure. One barely sees this balance from today’s towers of ranking prey.
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Exchanging gifts with Ursula
Le Guin’s writing has inspired me to question authority ever since my classmates and I read her work in school. [Read More]
Watershed Folk
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]
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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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.
Swimming with the Words
How did it feel to Get Lit at the Beach after postponing the event for three years? Like refueling an empty tank, breaking a long fast, or coming up for air? The experience merits more than snappy similes.
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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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