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Here Try Some of This Ointment

April 17, 2024 by Watt Childress 4 Comments

Imagine life where everyone pitches in with a mix of chores and creative leisure. One barely sees this balance from today’s towers of ranking prey.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Al-Eizariya, Appalachia, Bethany, Falafel, Isabel Wilkerson, Israel, Jesus, Knoxville, Mary, Nard, Origin, Palestine, Solomon, Spikenard

The Beautiful Live Wire of 2024

February 20, 2024 by Cliff Taylor 1 Comment

Out here on the Coast we locate our ways of feeding our souls and we’re best when we keep regular with them, car or not, rain-wet mess man or whatever. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing

Tax-and-Spend Tourism Devours our Coast

January 8, 2024 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

Appetites have hugely altered this place first recorded by explorers as “No-cost,” an ironic name for the spendy spot where residents and visitors haggled over blubber. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Ecola, lodging tax, NeCus', No-Cost, Oregon, Whale

READ ALL ABOUT IT! 1999

December 19, 2023 by Cliff Taylor 2 Comments

I’m a Bruce Lee of Christmas book-wrapping
just slaying everything I’m handed.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

A Memorable Christmas

December 15, 2023 by Steven Mayer 3 Comments

As evening approaches, the wind is exceptionally harsh as we walk the two country miles to the village. The stars are so distant, and my hands are cold. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing

Exchanging gifts with Ursula

December 5, 2023 by Watt Childress 3 Comments

Le Guin’s writing has inspired me to question authority ever since my classmates and I read her work in school. [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Books, Culture, Featured Writing Tagged With: Barb Knop, Brandon Ogilvie, Bruce St. Denis, Cannon Beach, Gary Hayes, Lisa Kerr, Nancy McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin

Watershed Folk

November 27, 2023 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

Awareness of our common bond grows in these little events. Each gathering brings us a baby step closer to knowing how sacred this place is. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Ecola Creek, Salmon

Local citizens could rejuvenate democracy

November 6, 2023 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

Apparently some leaders need a refresher lesson on consent. A comparison between civic governance and interpersonal relations is appropriate. When someone expresses a desire for friendship, starts giving hugs, this does not mean it’s OK to pursue sex with them. Even if romance does unfold, pay attention if the person says no at any point.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Oregon

Charging up our Song

November 3, 2023 by Watt Childress 3 Comments

Spirit cracked open
my mumblypeg mind with
heart-to-heart conversation.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

The Last of Us to Look Back

October 28, 2023 by Cliff Taylor 2 Comments

You pull hard enough and you can break
a connection a lot of times.
How many hundreds of miles were we marched
down our Trail of Tears before some of
those connections to our corn snapped?
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Food, Plant Medicine, Poetry, Spirit Tagged With: Chief Standing Bear, Ponca, Trail of Tears

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Memoir

February 13, 2026 By Steven Mayer Leave a Comment

End of the Street

August 4, 2025 By Steven Mayer 2 Comments

Here Try Some of This Ointment

April 17, 2024 By Watt Childress 4 Comments

We are the Luminaries

August 8, 2023 By Watt Childress 2 Comments

Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

June 19, 2023 By Watt Childress 5 Comments

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Readers’ Comments

  • Watt Childress
    June 13, 2026 at 2:40 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I can see how one comes to that conclusion, given all the frustration that accompanies disempowerment. Here's a truth that
  • DHCG
    June 7, 2026 at 2:49 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    “ They could encourage togetherness by example, tee-up other practical reforms to help free folks from the overreach of top-down
  • Susan Banyas
    June 7, 2026 at 11:00 am
    on Opening the Book of Indigenous Grief
    "The future is made from grief that has been grieved." Thank you Cliff. Thank you Little People, for this gift
  • Watt Childress
    June 6, 2026 at 4:18 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I imagine most members of city and county governments here on the coast support open community potlucks. It would help
  • Watt Childress
    June 6, 2026 at 4:13 pm
    on Reverend Billy wants Oregon to Legalize Potlucks
    I'd like to believe it would never get to that point, where someone would be penalized with a fine and/or
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