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Amen

January 23, 2013 by Lennard Noller 3 Comments

Her baby seems to enjoy the bus ride
The rocking and windows vibrating in the panes
She tells me she’s not going anywhere
Just around the mountain and back

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Haggis, Rabbie Burns and related musings

January 19, 2013 by Brian Johnstone 1 Comment

Burns was a man of the soil and a loyal and often visionary populist, disdainful of the upper and especially royalty-fawning classes which he observed caustically in many poems and prose-writings, and the church with it’s ever-shifting double standards of what was holy and what was not and came from peasant stock but was educated by his fairly benign –for the times- landowner factor who took an interest in his precocious intelligence. [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Food, ULE Tagged With: haggis, Robert Burns

Surfing Pop Culture: Who Wants the Truth?

January 16, 2013 by Rick Bonn 7 Comments

Does it even matter anymore that light sabers aren’t real? Or that Lance Armstrong used drugs to win races? Or that Manti Te’o’s dead girlfriend never existed? Or that faith, as the filmed LIFE OF PI suggests, needn’t be based on truth to be valid?

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Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Feature, Movies, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Frederick Buechner, Lance Armstrong, Life of Pi film, light sabers, Manti Te'o girlfriend, Star Wars religion

Arming educators is a bad idea

January 15, 2013 by Don Anderson 1 Comment

As an educator who teaches in a rural school district, I find the call for arming teachers and administrators following the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut both wrongheaded and counterproductive. Schools are supposed to be places of peaceful learning. I can’t imagine what it would be like to teach knowing that I or my colleague had a loaded pistol in the desk.
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Filed Under: Culture, Politics, ULE Tagged With: guns, schools

Cloud Shaped Indentations

January 14, 2013 by Phil Hogate 2 Comments

There’s a part of a man
Deep inside, rooted in
Ribs and muscular tissue
Between his heart and soul
That longs for the sky.

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

The Evolution of a Personal Code of Ethics or What Will You Leave Behind Stevie-Dean?

January 7, 2013 by Stevie Stephens Burden 4 Comments

It seems to me in light of the current culture and politics of America that perhaps it is time for me, and maybe others, to actually examine their own ethics and how we live our lives prior to condemning others for the way they lead theirs. Perhaps if we work harder to become our better selves then our communities and our country can evolve into better versions of themselves as well. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Politics, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: culture, Ethics, politics, values

Bear and Moose

January 7, 2013 by Vera Haddan 3 Comments

Bear drank a carbonated beverage — root beer.
Then,
He tied a rope —
One end to his waist,
The other to Moose.

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Filed Under: Poetry, ULE, Uncategorized

Open letter re: Mouth of the Columbia

January 5, 2013 by Brian Johnstone 1 Comment

As you are doubtless aware, there is a sufficiently clueless demographic that peruses and sends reports to the likes of Trip-Advisor and Yelp, without the situation being exacerbated by an allegedly knowledgeable locally based reporter writing from what looks like a similarly limited knowledge and experience of food.
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Filed Under: Food, ULE Tagged With: Mouth of the Columbia

The Blight of Consumerist America

January 3, 2013 by Tevan Goldberg 1 Comment

Walmart

When I drive by this area, I’m struck by how incredibly similar it looks to almost every other suburban location I’ve been to in the entire country – paved, beige, and offering the same products. Proponents of the developments point to “job creation” and “affordable merchandise” as the logic behind their construction. I point to something slightly less tangible: cultural and economic death. [Read more]

Filed Under: Culture, ULE Tagged With: big-box, consumerism, Walmart

Evergreen Testament

December 26, 2012 by Watt Childress 6 Comments

Suddenly I feel like I’m standing on sacred ground. My sense of kinship with the place expands in the company of cedars, some large enough to barely get my arms around. I press my palms against the taut skin of their trunks. I revel in the scent of sprigs picked up from earth their kind have nourished for lifetimes.

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Filed Under: Culture, Nature, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: cedar, Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes, Glencoe High School, Lewis Hyde, potlatch

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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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