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Tiny Corner

July 31, 2023 by Steven Mayer 2 Comments

I am fond
of my tiny corner
of the world: small
towns, beautiful beaches,
artists, writers, musicians.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Poetry, Spirit

Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

June 19, 2023 by Watt Childress 5 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Culture, Nature, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes, Creation Care, Grief, Talking-Stick

Gift

January 8, 2023 by Steven Mayer 1 Comment

He needs nothing except the sun to come up another day to celebrate his quiet presence on the earth.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Healing, Spirit

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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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

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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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

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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Memoir

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We are the Luminaries

August 8, 2023 By Watt Childress 2 Comments

Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

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Readers’ Comments

  • Watt Childress
    July 2, 2026 at 7:45 am
    on Every Patronus Will Lead Our Parade
    Fills my heart with joy that you read this Michael. The musical synchronicities in this piece really moved me as
  • Michael Simpson
    July 1, 2026 at 7:34 pm
    on Every Patronus Will Lead Our Parade
    A lovely expression of the true American experience. Thank you, patriot!
  • Watt Childress
    June 13, 2026 at 2:40 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I can see how one comes to that conclusion, given all the frustration that accompanies disempowerment. Here's a truth that
  • DHCG
    June 7, 2026 at 2:49 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    “ They could encourage togetherness by example, tee-up other practical reforms to help free folks from the overreach of top-down
  • Susan Banyas
    June 7, 2026 at 11:00 am
    on Opening the Book of Indigenous Grief
    "The future is made from grief that has been grieved." Thank you Cliff. Thank you Little People, for this gift
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