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Cannon Beach premiers films on climate change

March 11, 2018 by Cindy Bryden Leave a Comment

HALO hopes all concerned citizens in the northern coastal Oregon and Washington area will be able to attend one of these two afternoon performances March 18th and 19th in Cannon Beach. [Read More]

Filed Under: Movies, Nature, ULE

Drift Boats on the Klickitat

October 11, 2017 by Rob Gourley Leave a Comment

This is a hastening tributary —
it’s not the wider river
with headwaters gathered in the Rockies
which divulges its volume beyond Astoria.
[Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Poetry Tagged With: McKenzie River drift boats

Offspring

July 26, 2017 by Rob Gourley Leave a Comment

The Deer raise their brown heads
to make contact by eyes
and seem to acknowledge,
I’m the harmless neighbor.
[Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Poetry

Artist’s Statement for Nordic Edition

July 13, 2017 by Poppy Gorman Leave a Comment

I chose to depict illustrations rooted in nature because of the role the natural world plays in our lives, especially to the Northerners in Europe. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature

Two Poems

July 2, 2017 by Robert Michael Pyle Leave a Comment

Hazel catkins swell and stretch,
not long till budburst. Back home,
chickadees have found the feeders
at last! Feared they weren’t coming
at all this year—but here they are.
[Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Poetry

Warm Norwegian Wood

June 15, 2017 by T H Savaht Leave a Comment

Winter used to begin in October and end very late in March … maybe. This year Christmas was without any snow, and no snow appeared remotely in the forecast. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature

Off To The Spine Center

March 22, 2017 by Rabbi Bob Leave a Comment

Those that know me well often think I employ a crooked logic in my arguments (and also know I LOVE to argue). Well, I’m not so sure of my argumentative logic or skills, but I AM crooked in another way. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Healing, Nature, Photography

Nine Minutes

December 29, 2016 by Gwendolyn Endicott Leave a Comment

On the Winter Solstice, Dec. 21, at noon in Manzanita, a group of Watershed Heroes spoke at a meeting of the Tillamook County Commission.

Filed Under: Nature, Politics, ULE

The Stars Still Shine Bright

November 20, 2016 by Rabbi Bob 2 Comments

I just got back from a walk around the neighborhood that I took with Lilly over a thousand times in the almost exactly three years she was with us. I know the canine (even better than the human) residents of almost all the houses I passed. Amazingly, not one of them uttered a sound (that I could hear) on the half-hour walk. [Read more]

Filed Under: Nature, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: dawg-dawg, Lilly

Running Downhill

October 15, 2016 by Ann Ornie 4 Comments

I had never heard of aerial spraying of pesticides on privately owned timber lands before. I’d been naïve until the coastal town of Wheeler notified its residents late one Friday afternoon, in the early summer of 2014, of a spray scheduled by Stimpson Lumber the following Monday morning. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature

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  • 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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