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What love’s got to do with it: Anu Partanen’s “The Nordic Theory of Everything”

June 14, 2017 by Lotte Greaver Leave a Comment

By contrasting everyday life in her native Finland to that of America, her newly adopted country, Partanen holds up a mirror that very kindly shows us where we stand as a modern nation. [Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Culture, Featured Writing, Politics

The Night Is Young and the Music’s High

June 13, 2017 by Tracy Abel Leave a Comment

Classic rock fans often wax nostalgic about guy-bands from across the pond like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin. For me any tribute to trans-Atlantic music must spotlight a mixed-gender group from Sweden. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Song and Dance

An April in Europe

June 5, 2017 by Rabbi Bob Leave a Comment

It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since I’ve been back from an epic trip to Europe which I shared with Nancy for 2 weeks in England, and then soloed in England, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. The details are starting to fade, so it’s time to write it all down, based on […]

Filed Under: Art, Books, Culture, Featured Writing, Food, Happenings, Politics, Spirit

Fear of Summer

May 29, 2017 by Brendan Grays Leave a Comment

I fear you summer, I fear the way you hurt my chest, I fear the way I try to hold onto the slick sides of mirrors sliding efficiently down the heart of my fingers as I’m trying to hold onto images, reflections of the shelter I love….[Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry

Heart Money, Not Blood Money

April 9, 2017 by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald Leave a Comment

“We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency.” [Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Culture, Featured Writing Tagged With: Conscious capitalism, Ethical investing, Green Economy, Joel Solomon, Tyee Bridge

Off To The Spine Center

March 22, 2017 by Rabbi Bob Leave a Comment

Those that know me well often think I employ a crooked logic in my arguments (and also know I LOVE to argue). Well, I’m not so sure of my argumentative logic or skills, but I AM crooked in another way. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Healing, Nature, Photography

Gift of a seagull

March 2, 2017 by Rebecca Herren Leave a Comment

It’s the middle of August and I’m somewhere in Arizona.
Driving and driving I see a patch of white on black.
Unusual it seems. I’m curious.
[Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

A Visit to Stumptown

February 10, 2017 by Rabbi Bob Leave a Comment

With The Accidentals playing the Aladdin Theater in Portland recently, Nancy and I headed there for a rare weekend away from home.
[Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing

What Remains

January 7, 2017 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

We can say Black Elk witnessed the death of an indigenous way of life that existed for thousands of years. He did so just as surely as we’re watching death today — from Aleppo to poison pipelines to dead zones off the coast of America…. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit

Dangerous Angels

December 26, 2016 by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald Leave a Comment

When I was a child, I imagined angels like the ones in sentimental postcards, those romanticized winged guardians walking alongside a blond, middle-class boy and girl whose aggressive normality rendered them as iconic as their protector. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Healing, Movies, Spirit Tagged With: Dementia, Parkinson's Disease

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  • 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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