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Cap and trade won’t solve any problems?

March 8, 2020 by Rabbi Bob 1 Comment

The claim that if Oregon were to go to zero carbon emissions tomorrow, that the reduction in total global carbon emissions would be less than 1% may be true. If so, that would be an amazing start to reducing emissions by 50% by 2030 and close to 100% by 2050, which is the formula put forward by most scientists working on this problem for saving human civilization from utter chaos. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Politics Tagged With: cap and trade

¿Cuál es más?

March 7, 2020 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

Macha es una característica que abunda en Pátzcuaro y las áreas circundantes de Michoacán. Macha crece en una cultura nativa que celebra a la familia como la base de la sociedad. [Lee Mas]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing

Wondering How…?

February 7, 2020 by Lolly Champion Leave a Comment

There is a uniqueness in place for a reason that is too often misunderstood or ignored by the conceit of our precieved “knowledge.” [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature

My Homeless Street Friends

February 2, 2020 by Katrina Nguyen 2 Comments

Some people are wild at heart, some people are afraid of other people and money, some people are sick, and some people don’t know what they’re doing, bless them. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit

Backwater muse floods the borders of Babylon

January 29, 2020 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

What does it mean to make art in the boonies, pore long over sentences that never scale the muckety-muck steps of public attention? How does one who loves the civic beauty of words keep forking them onto the floor? [Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry Tagged With: 2666, Aldous Huxley, Andrew R. Tonry, Banksy, Benjamin Franklin, Bob Williams, Bradley Ray King, Brother Blue, Columbia Bank, David Longoria, Federico García Lorca, Hood River High School, Jennifer Childress, Jim Kosharek, Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Hyde, Mark Nelson, Matt Love, Mildred Boyer, Mohler Co-op, Natasha Wimmer, Roberto Bolaño, Rose Swartz, The Blue Dirt of Paradise, The Savage Detectives, Tom Bender, Travis Champ, Watt Childress

The Eagles Flew Over

January 20, 2020 by Gwendolyn Endicott 1 Comment

I will be 85 in a few days. My grandparents homesteaded in Oregon. Our family carries the memory of old growth forests, the rivers alive with salmon, the wildness and beauty that used to be. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature Tagged With: Forest, Logging, Oregon, Wheeler

Vinyl in the Promised Land

January 19, 2020 by Andrew R. Tonry Leave a Comment

I drop the needle into the grooves and it crackles to life, the buzz of an amplifier, unscrubbed, signifies the tactile–even if we don’t know by whose, what follows was surely made by human hands. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Song and Dance

Message, Moo-Cow, Messiah

December 26, 2019 by Watt Childress 6 Comments

It seems absurd on the surface that anyone who brandishes the word “Christ” would feel more affinity for the ways of plutocrats than the teachings of our compassionate rabbi. Yet when the Word becomes flesh, it is a socially-conditioned reflex for humans to fixate on the box rather than the contents. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: Christ, Dairy, Holiday, Jesus, Mariposa, Milk, Perry Como, Red Danish, Red Heifer, Simon Diaz, Tillamook County

The Shining Stars of Our Lineages

November 25, 2019 by Katrina Nguyen Leave a Comment

Every day we make choices and decisions that affect our kin, and as a result, everyone else. We communicate to the outside world through our choices, without having to say a word. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing

Gov. Kate Brown’s chosen secretary of state serves who?

November 18, 2019 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

Voter access is sacred to Oregonians. It should have been an obvious factor in Brown’s appointment of a new secretary of state. Secretary Clarno’s actions suggest Brown may have used a different political equation. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics Tagged With: Ballot iniative, Beverly Clarno, Kate Brown, Oregon, Richard Vial, Suffrage

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Readers’ Comments

  • 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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