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Uncle Zech’s Amphibious Gestalt

April 20, 2025 by Watt Childress 9 Comments

Cultures native to Turtle Island consider frogs to be among the “first people.” Could this be a way of acknowledging elder relatives who can help humans jump back from desolation?
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Song and Dance, Spirit Tagged With: Abomination of desolation, Drunk with the blood of the saints, In hoc signo vinces, Spring Peepers

Six Eras

February 27, 2025 by sam steidel 2 Comments

From up here, the little village packs in more and more till tempers rise. The brown old rock looms over hunters of tranquility, rare to find elsewhere. And peace…how they look for a moment of peace. We have enough to share.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Sam Steidel

Attending To It

February 20, 2025 by Logan James Garner 1 Comment

The full moon has rolled west
out of view, its light
reduced to a trickle
through the black frame.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

Everybody’s kin to Jesus (Part 1)

February 14, 2025 by Watt Childress 4 Comments

I reckon much of what’s happening now is a cultural reflux of what went down a while back, when rulers began using Jesus as a prop for colonization. Empire has co-opted spiritual leadership in this way for millennia.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Spirit

Slip Slidin’ Away

January 22, 2025 by Steven Mayer 2 Comments

Still humming, smiling, finally knowing where I am.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

Runny Birds

January 1, 2025 by Logan James Garner 4 Comments

Sanderlings are pitching like rafts
ignoring the line of surf-sorted shells
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Elixirs of the Gods

August 29, 2024 by Steven Mayer 2 Comments

Hiking high in the mountains, I seek freshwater streams flowing from glaciers. Cupping my hands for a drink is heaven.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Spirit

Here Try Some of This Ointment

April 17, 2024 by Watt Childress 4 Comments

Imagine life where everyone pitches in with a mix of chores and creative leisure. One barely sees this balance from today’s towers of ranking prey.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Al-Eizariya, Appalachia, Bethany, Falafel, Isabel Wilkerson, Israel, Jesus, Knoxville, Mary, Nard, Origin, Palestine, Solomon, Spikenard

The Beautiful Live Wire of 2024

February 20, 2024 by Cliff Taylor 1 Comment

Out here on the Coast we locate our ways of feeding our souls and we’re best when we keep regular with them, car or not, rain-wet mess man or whatever. [Read More]

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Tax-and-Spend Tourism Devours our Coast

January 8, 2024 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

Appetites have hugely altered this place first recorded by explorers as “No-cost,” an ironic name for the spendy spot where residents and visitors haggled over blubber. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Ecola, lodging tax, NeCus', No-Cost, Oregon, Whale

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Here Try Some of This Ointment

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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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