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Unclear Cuts: My Quixotic Quest to Chronicle the Labors of a “Working” Forest

February 18, 2013 by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald 6 Comments

I wonder how often the “generals” of forest-product corporations visit the clearcuts and view the devastation for themselves. And if they do, do they perceive their surroundings as the wreckage of an ecosystem or as a lawn that has been mowed, as easily regrown as grass?

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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Images, Nature, ULE Tagged With: clear cut, working forest

Dmitri’s Father

February 16, 2013 by Frank Lynch 1 Comment

The era of the brilliant Nabokovs is over. Dmitri died 22 February 2012. He was my age, born in Berlin in 1934 half a year before me. One day when I asked his father about his taste in music, he said he had none; all the musical talents went to his son, Dmitri. The father was very proud of his son and justifiably so.

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Filed Under: Art, Books, Feature, Song and Dance, ULE Tagged With: Cornell, Dmitri Nabokov, Nabokov, Russian, Vladimir Nabokov

Valentine for Flipper

February 14, 2013 by Watt Childress 16 Comments

One of the most important cultural centers in the ancient world was founded by a dolphin. According to a Homeric Hymn, the creature jumped aboard a ship sailing from Crete and commanded the mariners to build a sanctuary at Delphi. The animal was said to be a manifestation of the Greek god Apollo. Apollo Delphinios.

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Filed Under: Culture, Nature, Spirit, Television, ULE Tagged With: Delphyne, Dephi, dolphin, Flipper, omphalos, sea serpent

The Case for Gun Control

February 10, 2013 by Tevan Goldberg 1 Comment

Each recent shooting, from Tucson to Aurora to Newtown, bears a frustratingly obvious similarity to the others: a socially inept, mentally ill but untreated young man legally purchases highly powered assault weapons originally designed for military use, then turns them on a large group of innocent people in a public place.

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Filed Under: Politics, ULE Tagged With: Breivik, guns, Loughner, Newtown, NRA

The Denial of Death

February 5, 2013 by Kate Kilcup 1 Comment

I am already a wild ghost – only ever half here. How can something like that die?
Out West, were the fog creeps low and steady over the hills and twists
up the morning dew and rising sun in its fingers, there is enough of what is real
to buoy up this freckled skin forever.

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Filed Under: Poetry, ULE, Uncategorized

Old Fashioned British Transport “Caffs”

February 5, 2013 by Brian Johnstone 1 Comment

Back in the good old, bad old days of the 1960s, Britain’s very few motorways or freeways, were serviced by old-fashioned petrol stations and even more old fashioned transport café’s, known in London as “Caff’s” or more generally “Trannys”.

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Filed Under: Food, ULE

The Most Powerful Organization You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

January 31, 2013 by Tevan Goldberg Leave a Comment

ALEC

ALEC was founded in 1975 by a group of mostly junior Midwestern politicians, due to concern among conservative Republicans that there was a trend towards “big government” in Washington. It wasn’t until the far-right ideology of the Republican Party gained prominence in the 1990’s that ALEC began to take root throughout the country.
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Filed Under: Politics, ULE Tagged With: ALEC

Pretty in Pink

January 29, 2013 by Kristina Wilson 1 Comment

…isn’t she?

The Oregon Coast is stunning and I finally got to witness a beautiful sunset at Fort Stevens. People tell me all the time that I’m lucky to live in such a beautiful place, and they are right. The Pacific Northwest is gorgeous.

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Filed Under: Photography, ULE Tagged With: Fort Stevens, Ocean, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Peter Iredale, Shipwreck, Sunset

Border Tribute

January 29, 2013 by Brian Johnstone Leave a Comment

Some think that Scotland sterts somewhere near Perth
-or close by Edinburgh she at first draws breath.
While speedin’ Heiland –wards tae don a kilt
An’ nod at skirl o’ Bagpipes and the lilt

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Filed Under: Poetry, ULE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Scotland

Descent

January 27, 2013 by Kate Kilcup Leave a Comment

Palm fronds shudder in the wind,
shaking off light, like tinsel.
I left the thick, wet state
and descended along the coast
to live in this strange desert
of coyotes in the hills, barbed clubs
growing out of the ground…

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Filed Under: Poetry, ULE

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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!
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  • 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
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