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Fear of Summer

May 29, 2017 by Brendan Grays Leave a Comment

I fear you summer, I fear the way you hurt my chest, I fear the way I try to hold onto the slick sides of mirrors sliding efficiently down the heart of my fingers as I’m trying to hold onto images, reflections of the shelter I love….[Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry

Heart Money, Not Blood Money

April 9, 2017 by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald Leave a Comment

“We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency.” [Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Culture, Featured Writing Tagged With: Conscious capitalism, Ethical investing, Green Economy, Joel Solomon, Tyee Bridge

A Visit to Stumptown

February 10, 2017 by Rabbi Bob Leave a Comment

With The Accidentals playing the Aladdin Theater in Portland recently, Nancy and I headed there for a rare weekend away from home.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing

What Remains

January 7, 2017 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

We can say Black Elk witnessed the death of an indigenous way of life that existed for thousands of years. He did so just as surely as we’re watching death today — from Aleppo to poison pipelines to dead zones off the coast of America…. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit

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

Midwifing Death

December 4, 2016 by Lane deMoll Leave a Comment

It must seem a strange urge – to work with the dying.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry

Baby Gramps and the Geechee Goo

December 3, 2016 by Watt Childress 2 Comments

Life is woven with threads from many ancestors.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Song and Dance, Spirit

The Genocide of the American Indian, and Their Refusal to Die

November 29, 2016 by Stevie Stephens Burden Leave a Comment

So what happens to a person or group when their identity is wiped from the book of history? [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing

Surfing Without a Pair

October 19, 2016 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

From what I’ve seen, the cross-cultural truth about cajones is that they often cause serious wipe outs. Yet for some reason people talk as if they’re essential to success, even for women. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Politics, ULE

no podemos respirar

June 16, 2016 by Willa Childress 7 Comments

In the wake of huge tragedy, it often seems like humanity is mired in smog. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature, Politics

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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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