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Spirit of the Winds

December 2, 2015 by Gwendolyn Endicott 1 Comment

People who live on the North Coast will tell you that South Wind loves to travel up the coast in the winter time changing things as he goes. In the old days, he had many headbands. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: South Wind

Women Talk Forest

November 18, 2015 by Gwendolyn Endicott 1 Comment

I have been following with deep concern the proposed logging of the “Homesteader Tract” in the Buster Creek Basin of Clatsop County. I would like to believe that Oregon Department of Forestry has some sense of the value of these older forests whose fate they hold in their hands. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Spirit Tagged With: clearcut, Homesteader Tract, Oregon Department of Forestry

A View From the First People

October 20, 2015 by Roberta Basch 3 Comments

This is where the medicine men throw lightening. Its name is Swalalahoost. From a distance, far from it’s true qualities, it’s referred to as Saddle Mountain. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Nature, Spirit

For the Love of Collard Greens

October 8, 2015 by LaNicia Duke Leave a Comment

Collard greens are a staple to any soul food meal. Many times it can be the lengthiest part of the meal, but also the most satisfying. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Food, Spirit

Life in the Upper Left Edge

September 29, 2015 by Lianne Thompson 2 Comments

We are hard-wired to need each other, to function in relationships and communities. It takes courage, skill, and practice to do it, but it’s the only game in town that will save us. Let’s play it together, with humor and grace. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Nature, Spirit

Make Good Deals

August 12, 2015 by Watt Childress 5 Comments

Trade is an old reason to gather round the table. Two deals now focus our attention. One seeks to relax trade sanctions on Iran in exchange for a halt to nuclear armament. The other seeks to liberalize trade among Pacific-rim nations in exchange for, well, we haven’t been told yet. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics, Spirit Tagged With: Iran nuclear deal, Israel, trade policy, Trans-Pacific Partnership

Mythos, Pathos, and a Lotus Flower

July 21, 2015 by T H Savaht 5 Comments

Baying in sylvan moonlight, intrepid eyes watch as harbingers of sound, spoken word dappled in periwinkle trust, parades flamboyantly, confidently, down horse cobbled streets. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

Soil of My Soul

May 8, 2015 by Erin Hofseth 3 Comments

Deep in the soil of my soul, I am Me; gritty, earthy, and raw. The heartbeats of my children live there. As do the spirits of lost loves, the hope of eternal life, and the forgiveness that I will someday grant myself. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

Travel Light

April 29, 2015 by Tony Farrenkopf 1 Comment

The German Bundeswehr meant to draft me for two years of service for the fatherland. But I was already an expatriate, had other notions for my life. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit

Rabbinical Reflections on the Season

April 5, 2015 by Rabbi Bob 12 Comments

Once again, here we are, in the juxtaposition of Jewish and Christian redemption and renewal holidays – Passover and Easter, respectively – and I find myself acting in two plays, one of which tells the Old Testament story of Joseph in musical form. [Read more]

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Featured Writing, Nature, Spirit

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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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