It is time to nurture other seeds that have been planted, seeds that promise good fruit. [Read More]
Seekers on the Range
We wanted to crack through the crust of everyday transactions, tap into the cultural magma of our continent. [Read More]
Six Eras
From up here, the little village packs in more and more till tempers rise. The brown old rock looms over hunters of tranquility, rare to find elsewhere. And peace…how they look for a moment of peace. [Read More]
Education is Communication
When we hear the phrase “they are a good communicator,” we often assume that means the person being referred to has a way with words and chooses them so that their audience understands their message clearly. [Read More]
Unclear Cuts 3: Before and After
As Onandaga Chief Oren Lyons testified at the United Nations in 1993, “We don’t call a tree a resource. We don’t call a fish a resource. We don’t call a bison a resource. We call them our relatives.” [Read More]
Survivors Lead us Beyond the Gunfire
As spring’s door opened young activists organized hundreds of rallies and marches, speaking through tears of grief to multitudes who are fed up with darkness. [Read More]
The Path Next Taken
These are the days when the bright young hopes of our collective future have become commodities. Higher education has become a damned if you do and damned if you don’t scenario of debt vs. future prospects. [Read More]
Hell-Mouth High
Why did North American mass-consumer culture elect to abandon its youth to bash their way through the pubertal wilderness without meaningful mentorship and a supportive community to embrace them when they emerge as new adults? [Read More]
Civics lesson on the legacy of shame
I could not control my unexpected tears seeing that this is the new reality for these people the press and politicians keep mislabeling by calling them “kids.” [Read More]
Learning to Swim
I am one of the few people living on the north Oregon coast with direct ancestry to slavery from Africa. Fewer than two percent of the north coast population is African-American. [Read More]
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