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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

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

Message, Moo-Cow, Messiah

December 26, 2019 by Watt Childress 6 Comments

It seems absurd on the surface that anyone who brandishes the word “Christ” would feel more affinity for the ways of plutocrats than the teachings of our compassionate rabbi. Yet when the Word becomes flesh, it is a socially-conditioned reflex for humans to fixate on the box rather than the contents. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: Christ, Dairy, Holiday, Jesus, Mariposa, Milk, Perry Como, Red Danish, Red Heifer, Simon Diaz, Tillamook County

Seeing through the enemy and seeing the self

November 11, 2019 by Katrina Nguyen 2 Comments

In the grand master scheme of things, I don’t believe that enemies exist. At a core level. We are all made of the same stuff, right? The same star stuff and blood and bone and breath. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Spirit

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

Jamal and the Crown Predators

December 25, 2018 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

The wise men hold a magical place in the nativity story. They were not members of the religion into which Christ was born, yet they travelled far to pay him homage. Call them gentiles, infidels, pagans, or simply the others. Their knowledge nevertheless conveyed a deep understanding of his humble-yet-cosmic birth. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics, Spirit

The Parable of the Waters

August 21, 2018 by Lolly Champion 1 Comment

And it came to pass all the waters of the planet roared
to the God of the Universe and Handmaiden Moon. [Read More]

Filed Under: Nature, Poetry, Spirit, ULE

Efecto Mariposa

August 7, 2018 by Watt Childress 2 Comments

“Great nations aren’t made of friendly
flowers,” tweets a vainglorious beast. His
words deal in luxuriant greed and smell like
bacon to believers.”

Filed Under: Poetry, Politics, Spirit, ULE

Known by its Fruit

June 18, 2018 by Tricia Gates Brown Leave a Comment

It is time to nurture other seeds that have been planted, seeds that promise good fruit. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Spirit

Everlast

July 20, 2017 by Keri Hakan Leave a Comment

Medicine smoke circles
Over me
Rising
[Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

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