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Old Goat Plunges into Another Year

January 6, 2023 by Watt Childress 7 Comments

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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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: Capricorn, Jesus, Lamb Chop, New Year, Pan, Polar Plunge, winter rituals

Midterms in the Oregon Multiverse

November 2, 2022 by Watt Childress 9 Comments

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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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Movies, Nature, Politics, Spirit Tagged With: Dan Evans, Dixiecrat, Dixy Lee Ray, Goonies, Jimmy Carter, Mark Hatfield, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Tom McCall

Quantum Skip

August 7, 2022 by Steven Mayer 3 Comments

I think, therefore I am
a Cartesian dictum in western philosophy
asserts primacy of consciousness
mind knowing itself more directly
than the external world.
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Brother Karson’s Jean Jacket

March 9, 2022 by Cliff Taylor 2 Comments

He will always be remembered as a guardian
who put his friends above all the things that most men fear-
few can tell the story of their life and say the things
he could’ve, say how true they stayed to the God-given
design of their soul.
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Reunion

February 19, 2022 by Steven Mayer 4 Comments

She senses that something mystical is peeking over the edge of my bounded rationality, and she tries to hide her delight over humbling a skeptic. Just maybe, God has found us in the middle of nowhere, in the dark of night.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Healing, Spirit

Rainbow Brotherhood

February 11, 2022 by Watt Childress 3 Comments

God bless Gene Maddox for reminding us that we’re all part of a multi-hued story made by thoughts and words and actions.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: Black History Month, Eighth of August, Gene Maddox, George Clem School, New Hope Cemetery

The Edge

December 23, 2021 by Greg Herren 2 Comments

A smile, laughter, a hug. Simple right?
Every day is a chance to make a difference
in someone’s moment, day or life.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

My Grandmother’s candy dish

November 18, 2021 by T H Savaht 6 Comments

Is gone
sold
not long after her death
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Color Guard opens the Pearly Gates

November 12, 2021 by Watt Childress 8 Comments

Behold home’s holy regalia,
heaven’s earthbow — team chroma.
These robes hold souls with
sweeps of breath-giving glory.
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Filed Under: Art, Culture, Featured Writing, Nature, Poetry, Spirit

More Than Allies

July 30, 2021 by Watt Childress 5 Comments

She led me into a room packed with family and the Holy Ghost, then gestured toward an old man seated in the pit of raw grief. I hunkered down beside him and yelled the first words that came though my heart. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature, Spirit Tagged With: cedar, Ceremony, climate change, marriage, Medicine, tobacco

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Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

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My November 2022 Ballot Choices

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One Cup of Tea

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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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