Survival requires that we tend to our mental health with little threads of fellowship, stitch our psyches together in ways that affirm everyone’s membership in the cosmic whole. [Read More]
Cap and trade won’t solve any problems?
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]
¿Cuál es más?
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]
Wondering How…?
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]
My Homeless Street Friends
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]
Backwater muse floods the borders of Babylon
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]
The Eagles Flew Over
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]
Vinyl in the Promised Land
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]
Message, Moo-Cow, Messiah
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]
The Shining Stars of Our Lineages
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]
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