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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.
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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

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.
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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 1 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

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  • Gordon B French
    June 4, 2026 at 7:36 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    Had anyone been arrested and charged. And gone to court. I feel the judge would throw it out.
  • Carol Newman
    May 13, 2026 at 3:18 pm
    on Opening the Book of Indigenous Grief
    Deep gratitude for your learnings and teachings dear Cliff.
  • Maranne
    April 25, 2026 at 8:01 am
    on Opening the Book of Indigenous Grief
    Wow… Taylor: a deep poetic Ponca man. So full…overflowing with wisdom, with heart, with courage to share. I’m thankful for
  • Watt Childress
    April 22, 2026 at 6:12 pm
    on Opening the Book of Indigenous Grief
    Thank you for these beautiful words that go straight to the heart of healing.
  • R²
    January 7, 2026 at 7:19 am
    on Smart travel money helps care for places we love
    Couldn't agree with you more. We're dealing with that all right now trying to get the air museum in tillamook
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