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Emerald City DEA (short fiction)

February 18, 2014 by Rick Bonn 4 Comments

She stood on the lower deck of the ferry. The wind beat her face and the salt stung her eyes. But she didn’t care: ahead was Seattle. Downtown’s glittering spires rose from brackish water like the tip of a submerged fantasy kingdom. Gulls screeched escort overhead, defying currents, until knifing down and whipping back out of view.

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Filed Under: Fiction, ULE Tagged With: DEA, drugs, heroin, Seattle, Seattle Ferry Dock, Washington State Ferry

Art Show

February 18, 2014 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

Pick a medium, any medium.
Shuffle it with streamlined themes
and magic random thoughts.
Cut it, quick, whoever you are.

Now hide it from the pros
who’ve done every dream.

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Filed Under: Poetry, ULE Tagged With: Feller Kiln, wabi-sabi

The Eagle’s Epitaph – The Multiple Lives of the Screaming Eagle

February 17, 2014 by Michael McCusker 1 Comment

Although it is as difficult to project as well as portray the cumulative history of a nation or a people through a single individual, it might be rational to attempt a history of media through a particular newspaper. In the case of the North Coast Times Eagle, the history it projected was a local and out at the edge projection of journalism that might seem paradoxical if not antithetical to mainstream media, which claims its history the center stage of American journalism. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Politics, ULE

Jetties of Consciousness

February 3, 2014 by Matt Love 2 Comments

Jetties fascinate me. They teach me poetry and physics, life and death. They represent solidity and evanescence, ambition and ignorance. They are black and jagged, gray and serrated. They whip up a kind of slippery, spraying, salty ocean margarita I love imbibing. If anything can be said to be rock and roll in nature, an oxymoron of course, jetties are it.

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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Images, Featured Writing, Nature, ULE Tagged With: Dr. Feelgood, Great Pyramid of Giza, Napoleon, Panda Bear, Sylvia Beach Hotel

Cancer and Climate Change

January 12, 2014 by Rabbi Bob 6 Comments

Recently, a friend of mine sent along a link to a post on the blog Nature Bats Last (what a great name for a blog!), asking me to forward this post to my son (which I did). A couple of days later, my son sent me an email asking if I’d read the piece, and how depressing it was. Well, it took some time, but I finally sat down last night (after finishing filling out financial aid forms for my college-bound son this week) to finish reading this very long and heavily referenced post. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Nature, Spirit, ULE

Salmon Are My Heroes

December 16, 2013 by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald 2 Comments

With battered grace they thrashed upstream, bashing themselves against the current, rocks, other obstacles, and their own mortality to reach their natal waters. Their ordeal had flayed away their steely overcoats to reveal the muscle that powered their thrust toward the new life for which they would sacrifice their own. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Nature, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Salmon

It’s a lot of work

November 25, 2013 by T H Savaht 2 Comments

It’s a lot of work
coming Home
retreading
previous paths
turning
at some fateful moment
back
to the by ways of our
Birth [Read More]

Filed Under: Nature, Poetry, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Ecola Creek, Salmon

A Guardian Spirit (Short Fiction)

November 24, 2013 by A.M. Laissig 1 Comment

“Daisy, come quick. He’s back.” The small, shaggy-bearded man danced a few steps in excitement.

A woman moved her girth sideways, through the screen door, letting it slap shut. Frizzy dark-rooted blond hair framed her splotchy sagging face. She snatched the binoculars and trained them on a distant stand of trees growing across Cape Falcon. [Read More]

Filed Under: Fiction, Nature, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Bald Eagle

The Death Seeker (Short Fiction)

November 2, 2013 by Rick Bonn 7 Comments

      I live in a land where people come to die. Some intentionally. Some not. Take Phillip Barnes, for example. He drove his ‘95 Jeep Wrangler Sahara away from the city on August 29th. He was bipolar. Had a gun. Left his wallet home. Traffic cams showed him heading our way. No one’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Writing, Fiction, ULE

Beyond Milk Duds and Fear of Death

October 31, 2013 by Watt Childress 9 Comments

Tradition says this is a time of year when matter and spirit mingle. The boundary between darkness and light becomes sheer now, at the end of harvest.

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Filed Under: Culture, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: All Saints' Day, All Souls' Day, Day of the Dead, Halloween, Michael Burgess

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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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