Farms used to be centers of community and family. Neighbors would gather in houses, barns and fields to celebrate holiday and hold harvest dances, memorials and weddings. [Read More]
Life in the Upper Left Edge
We are hard-wired to need each other, to function in relationships and communities. It takes courage, skill, and practice to do it, but it’s the only game in town that will save us. Let’s play it together, with humor and grace. [Read More]
Emerald City DEA (continued)
She’s a woman out of her skin now, a changeling. And the skin she wants to shed is the grief, the lies, the torments of years playing second fiddle to every goddamn man who towered over her and thought themselves smarter because their hair was shorter and biceps bigger. [Read More]
The Gravity of Choosing Our Experience in Relationships
I’ve never known anyone for any length of time that isn’t dealing with some sort of shadowy something. [Read More]
Make Good Deals
Trade is an old reason to gather round the table. Two deals now focus our attention. One seeks to relax trade sanctions on Iran in exchange for a halt to nuclear armament. The other seeks to liberalize trade among Pacific-rim nations in exchange for, well, we haven’t been told yet. [Read More]
Summer sewage at Cannon Beach
We found an elderly man in a wheelchair rinsing his feet in the stream. We also found children running up and down the stream, and very brown water containing visible brown particles. [Read More]
Mythos, Pathos, and a Lotus Flower
Baying in sylvan moonlight, intrepid eyes watch as harbingers of sound, spoken word dappled in periwinkle trust, parades flamboyantly, confidently, down horse cobbled streets. [Read More]
Birdman
True to their fears, a figure came charging around the bend, arms stretched out like some albatross clumsily taking to the air. [Read More]
Eulogy for a Goldfish
Pig, our family goldfish, died recently at the age of three years. He was purchased with low expectations, having cost only 25 cents. Nevertheless, he was an ambitious soul for a feeder fish. [Read More]
Three Stones and a Pipe
Words are shared in memory of Steve McLeod, beloved artist and gatherer. [Read More]
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