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Tarea de las Patrias

April 2, 2020 by Watt Childress 2 Comments

La migración de ideas entre idiomas les da espacio para voltear alrededor. Pequeños descubrimientos en la traducción me vuelven a la magia original de las palabras. [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Books, Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit Tagged With: Diana Bellessi, El Centro de Ecoturismo e Idiomas de Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Pátzcuaro, Ursula K. Le Guin

Smells Like Quarantine Spirit

March 27, 2020 by Watt Childress 14 Comments

Survival requires that we tend to our mental health with little threads of fellowship, stitch our psyches together in ways that affirm everyone’s membership in the cosmic whole. [Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: Gunsmoke, Jerusalem, Kurt Donald Cobain, The Decameron

¿Cuál es más?

March 7, 2020 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

Macha es una característica que abunda en Pátzcuaro y las áreas circundantes de Michoacán. Macha crece en una cultura nativa que celebra a la familia como la base de la sociedad. [Lee Mas]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing

My Homeless Street Friends

February 2, 2020 by Katrina Nguyen 2 Comments

Some people are wild at heart, some people are afraid of other people and money, some people are sick, and some people don’t know what they’re doing, bless them. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit

Backwater muse floods the borders of Babylon

January 29, 2020 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

What does it mean to make art in the boonies, pore long over sentences that never scale the muckety-muck steps of public attention? How does one who loves the civic beauty of words keep forking them onto the floor? [Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry Tagged With: 2666, Aldous Huxley, Andrew R. Tonry, Banksy, Benjamin Franklin, Bob Williams, Bradley Ray King, Brother Blue, Columbia Bank, David Longoria, Federico García Lorca, Hood River High School, Jennifer Childress, Jim Kosharek, Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Hyde, Mark Nelson, Matt Love, Mildred Boyer, Mohler Co-op, Natasha Wimmer, Roberto Bolaño, Rose Swartz, The Blue Dirt of Paradise, The Savage Detectives, Tom Bender, Travis Champ, Watt Childress

The Shining Stars of Our Lineages

November 25, 2019 by Katrina Nguyen Leave a Comment

Every day we make choices and decisions that affect our kin, and as a result, everyone else. We communicate to the outside world through our choices, without having to say a word. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing

Ingathering

October 8, 2019 by Watt Childress 4 Comments

“This is a collaborative project,” Deb said in the weeks leading up to the installation. “I hope other folks will feel inspired to participate and help with the weaving. It strengthens community when we make art together.” [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature, Spirit Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Debra Carnes, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Sukkot, Tolovana Arts Colony

Storytime for Bots

August 21, 2019 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

Harry and his Soul-Mate and their Beloved-Non-Binary-Offspring went backpacking for four days in the Sisters Wilderness. Such getaways from the surveillance of today’s mega-commerce provide H and S-M and B-N-B-O with respite from incessant ads and corporate-sponsored news. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Featured Writing, Nature Tagged With: Amazon, Elpis, Impossible Burger, REI, Sisters Wilderness, South Sister, Surveillance Capitalism, The Beatles

In My Back Yard

October 15, 2018 by Gwendolyn Endicott Leave a Comment

We are so deeply shrouded that we are unaware even of the Beauty that surrounds us. Suddenly, we are startled aware by a flock of peeps (Sandpipers), flying in an orchestrated synchronicity.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature

Seekers on the Range

April 26, 2018 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

We wanted to crack through the crust of everyday transactions, tap into the cultural magma of our continent. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature

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  • Michael Wardell May 28, 2025 at 7:38 pm on Women of the Wakonda AugaI liked the movie and just finishing the book. Wow, I feel like I know the place and the characters.
  • 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
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