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ODF and Boise Cascade Agree: Clearcut is “sustainable forestry”

January 31, 2016 by Gwendolyn Endicott 1 Comment

We are greatly disillusioned with the policies of Oregon Department of Forestry… [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature Tagged With: Boise Cascade, clearcut, Homesteader Forest, Oregon Department of Forestry

Lunch with David

January 24, 2016 by T H Savaht 1 Comment

Thank you for the pain and the glory. For the angst and the fame.
[Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Song and Dance Tagged With: David Bowie

Primal Friendships

January 12, 2016 by Carol Vanderford 1 Comment

In her book of essays “The Sound of Paper,” Julia Cameron associates creativity with child-like wonder and reminds us how essential to living are these primal friendships with the moment. [Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Featured Writing, Nature

Words gone astray in a landscape of grey

December 30, 2015 by Gwendolyn Endicott Leave a Comment

Words are not only useful in helping us to see, they also carry a powerful emotional charge. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature

Addicted

December 15, 2015 by Rabbi Bob 8 Comments

Last Saturday, the mainstream media reported with glee and fanfare that the world had signed a climate change pact that would save itself from certain destruction. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Food, Nature, Politics Tagged With: climate change, sugar, Walmart

I Wondered

December 7, 2015 by Carol Vanderford 2 Comments

I wondered
What it must be like
To never touch bottom. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Healing, Poetry

Spirit of the Winds

December 2, 2015 by Gwendolyn Endicott 1 Comment

People who live on the North Coast will tell you that South Wind loves to travel up the coast in the winter time changing things as he goes. In the old days, he had many headbands. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: South Wind

Critics Join Meteor in Missing The Good Dinosaur

November 26, 2015 by Rick Bonn 5 Comments

Some critics aren’t doing their job in regards to Disney’s new Pixar film The Good Dinosaur. They’re misreading the film and, because of it, may cause audiences to miss a truly heartfelt, cinematic treasure–one of the best kid movie fables in years. The first step in ‘reading’ a film — i.e. determining the intent or […]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Movies Tagged With: Disney, Dumbo, fable, film critics, Forrest Gump, Knight and Day, Peter Sohn, Pixar, The Red Balloon

Women Talk Forest

November 18, 2015 by Gwendolyn Endicott 1 Comment

I have been following with deep concern the proposed logging of the “Homesteader Tract” in the Buster Creek Basin of Clatsop County. I would like to believe that Oregon Department of Forestry has some sense of the value of these older forests whose fate they hold in their hands. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Spirit Tagged With: clearcut, Homesteader Tract, Oregon Department of Forestry

The Seeds of the Stormy Weather Arts Festival

October 27, 2015 by Frank Milan 6 Comments

Like anything else, this event was seeded, and grew organically over time. The seeds held the potential of what the event would become. [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Featured Writing Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Oregon, Stormy Weather Arts Festival

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