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Midwifing Death

December 4, 2016 by Lane deMoll Leave a Comment

It must seem a strange urge – to work with the dying.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry

Baby Gramps and the Geechee Goo

December 3, 2016 by Watt Childress 2 Comments

Life is woven with threads from many ancestors.
[Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Song and Dance, Spirit

Alchemy

December 2, 2016 by Alan Greiner Leave a Comment

When sun strikes on a sudden morning
through a frozen fog, the ransom of Autumn lost,
a glory stands in silvered white, a gleam so cold
that now the tree’s breath shines. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em

December 1, 2016 by Evie Alburas Leave a Comment

Some people like to laughingly remind me of a time when I hated football. [Read More]

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Again

November 30, 2016 by Tricia Gates Brown Leave a Comment

You are no different than asters that fall dead
in sleep, reemerge each year strong and new. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

The Genocide of the American Indian, and Their Refusal to Die

November 29, 2016 by Stevie Stephens Burden Leave a Comment

So what happens to a person or group when their identity is wiped from the book of history? [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing

Stumbling Stones

November 28, 2016 by Lila Danielle Leave a Comment

There’s a way in which water flows.
It knows where to go without directions,
understands how to travel with ease. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

Time to Turn the Clocks Back

November 5, 2016 by Rabbi Bob 1 Comment

It’s that favorite night of some people’s year – the night we turn the clocks back an hour and stop saving the daylight (and so get an “extra hour” of sleep). It’s also almost exactly 3 days until the polls close here in Oregon in the 2016 general election….[Read more]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics

Running Downhill

October 15, 2016 by Ann Ornie 4 Comments

I had never heard of aerial spraying of pesticides on privately owned timber lands before. I’d been naïve until the coastal town of Wheeler notified its residents late one Friday afternoon, in the early summer of 2014, of a spray scheduled by Stimpson Lumber the following Monday morning. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature

Angels from Everywhere

September 6, 2016 by T H Savaht 2 Comments

When I was 19, I was a razor. Intense, a zealot, and more than a little crazy. So many people told me the military was for me. [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Featured Writing, Movies, Song and Dance

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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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