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Off To The Spine Center

March 22, 2017 by Rabbi Bob Leave a Comment

Those that know me well often think I employ a crooked logic in my arguments (and also know I LOVE to argue). Well, I’m not so sure of my argumentative logic or skills, but I AM crooked in another way. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Healing, Nature, Photography

Dangerous Angels

December 26, 2016 by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald Leave a Comment

When I was a child, I imagined angels like the ones in sentimental postcards, those romanticized winged guardians walking alongside a blond, middle-class boy and girl whose aggressive normality rendered them as iconic as their protector. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Healing, Movies, Spirit Tagged With: Dementia, Parkinson's Disease

The Truth About Denying Your Truth

May 22, 2016 by LaNicia Duke Leave a Comment

The truth about denying your truth is that it sucks. It’s detrimental and I believe the difference between life and death. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Healing, Spirit Tagged With: Coastal Soul, healing, LaNicia Williams, soul, spiritual, Truth

Bringing Birth Home

April 22, 2016 by Jennifer Childress 1 Comment

It’s usually the middle of the night when I drive to my client’s house after hearing she is in labor. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Healing Tagged With: midwife, Oregon

Leap

February 7, 2016 by Lisa Kerr 1 Comment

With complete abandon, I would run to
the beach to witness the moonlight
splitting the syrup of darkness…[Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Healing, Poetry

I Wondered

December 7, 2015 by Carol Vanderford 2 Comments

I wondered
What it must be like
To never touch bottom. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Healing, Poetry

The Gravity of Choosing Our Experience in Relationships

August 20, 2015 by Angi Wildt 4 Comments

I’ve never known anyone for any length of time that isn’t dealing with some sort of shadowy something. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Healing

Magic on the Necanicum

September 26, 2014 by Nickolai Vasilieff 6 Comments

Each year, as mornings become brisk and mist pushes on shore, magic arrives on the Necanicum. I live in a small cabin near the Necanicum River’s estuary, a special corner of Northwest Oregon where a profusion of wildlife, from seagulls and eagles to salmon and elk, share the water and shore. Every morning I sit […]

Filed Under: Healing, Nature, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: coast, fall, joy, magic, meditation, nature, necanicum, Oregon, Salmon

Experiencing nonlinear time through lucid dreaming

May 29, 2014 by RedSpiralHand 4 Comments

About a year ago I had an interesting lucid dreaming experience that involved what I perceived to be a peek at the nature of nonlinear time and how it’s used to travel/transition in dreams. I had just left one dream scenario and found myself in a place where I was deciding where to travel next. I was observing a series of scenes, dozens of them, flicker by me in a line, moving right to left. [Read More]

Filed Under: Healing, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Medicine Wheel

No-see-ums, the entropy effect and non-linear time

May 15, 2014 by RedSpiralHand 10 Comments

So I awoke today to the morning light streaming in at just the right angle to reveal that the no-see-ums had invaded my bedroom via a teeny-tiny-itsy-bitsy unnoticed hole in the window screen. (Egads!) My room was a flutter with dust-mote-sized, blood-sucking denizens of suffering and I was feeling a bit helpless as I ran for the duct tape and realized that during the night my bug bites had multiplied 3-fold. (DRAT!) [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Healing, Nature, Plant Medicine, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Genetics, Plant Medicine, Quantum Physics, Star Trek

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My November 2022 Ballot Choices

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Readers’ Comments

  • Watt Childress April 28, 2025 at 11:48 am on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltAlso, you inspired me to insert a sentence crediting Hoyt Axton with the song's genesis. Many thanks!
  • Watt Childress April 27, 2025 at 10:55 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltThank you kindly Jim for reading this and commenting. I enjoyed your review of "Sun House" by David James Duncan,
  • Jim Stewart April 27, 2025 at 8:26 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltNice! Hoyt Axton wrote the Jeremiah song and sang it with great gusto. Life wanders on and I'm still glad
  • Watt Childress April 26, 2025 at 3:51 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltDuring spring I think of you, and all the May Pole celebrations you've organized over the years. So grateful for
  • Watt Childress April 26, 2025 at 3:18 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltIn my dreams I sing to the multitudes, with a voice as clear and sweet and churchy as Lou Reed.
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