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Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks

June 2, 2026 by Watt Childress 6 Comments

Here’s a key thing about Billy’s hippie wildness – he wanted everyone to have access to life’s party. He welcomed both the destitute and the suits to friendly fests he helped organize, safe spaces where all could enjoy the creative commons.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature, Politics, Spirit

Opening the Book of Indigenous Grief

April 21, 2026 by Cliff Taylor 4 Comments

The future is made from grief that has been grieved; the grief not grieved is essentially the stuff the future needs for its growth held back, is vibrancy and vitality for the unborn generations unintentionally hoarded, held onto.
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Smart travel money helps care for places we love

January 6, 2026 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

OREGON’S NORTH COAST faces problems common to many destinations. Increasing demands on resources boosts momentum for heavy urban growth. Without careful management, this accelerates overcrowding and makes matters worse. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Politics

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 our elder kin in creation, animal relatives who might show us how to 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 5 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

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Readers’ Comments

  • 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
  • Watt Childress
    June 6, 2026 at 4:18 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I imagine most members of city and county governments here on the coast support open community potlucks. It would help
  • Watt Childress
    June 6, 2026 at 4:13 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I'd like to believe it would never get to that point, where someone would be penalized with a fine and/or
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