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Why aren’t we all dancing wholeheartedly?

May 21, 2012 by Glenna Gray 2 Comments

I just returned from an evening of dancing to live music. Live, danceable music always brings great joy to me. I love moving my body in harmony with the music, I love experiencing all the ways my body will move, I love watching others experience the same things. This evening it was reggae. Rock and roll, jazz, blues, yes even classical can inspire the same joy. When I am in a self-care mindset, I plan dance into my life.

Filed Under: Culture, Song and Dance, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: dance, flow, joy

Cool, clear water

May 19, 2012 by Victoria Stoppiello 1 Comment

We can live without petroleum, but we can’t live, literally, without water. Water is becoming a politically charged issue. In a complex water deal in the Columbia River gorge, Oregon might swap half the spring water supplying a fish hatchery to the town of Cascade Locks in exchange for city well water. Then the city could sell the spring water to Nestle to bottle.

Filed Under: Feature, Nature, ULE Tagged With: economics, environment

Dig those well-rounded points

May 17, 2012 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

Here’s a cool clip from a 1971 animated film based on a musical fable by Harry Nilsson. The central character in the story — a sweet boy name Oblio — is cast out of his village because he is different. All of the other villagers have pointed heads, but Oblio’s noggin is round. His attempts to hide this fact by wearing a pointed hat don’t change his social circumstances.

Filed Under: Movies, ULE, Uncategorized Tagged With: Harry Nilsson, Obleo, The Point

What’s it all About?

May 16, 2012 by margishindler 4 Comments

Every day the first thought of the productive person is…. what do I need to accomplish? Work, laundry, grass mowing (ach), finances, really never ending. What a funny life we have decided is normal. I look at the young people and think that I am now old enough to be their grandparent, and yet I still feel like I am the hippie kid who spent her last 200 bucks on a property down payment back in 1977 with the hippie Buddhist guy with the long hair and beard with whom I lived in the tent where we conceived our first child.

Filed Under: Feature, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: existence

5 REASONS CHRONIC ILLNESS IS FABULOUS

May 14, 2012 by Holly Lorincz 1 Comment

1. Weight loss
Sure, at first you gain weight, laying around on your ass, eating bon bons and watching reruns of Charmed and Gossip Girl. Not to mention the midnight sugar bowl runs brought on by the anxiety medicine cravings. BUT, given enough time, you will lose your job. This means you will no longer be able to afford food.

Filed Under: Feature, Television, ULE

A Woman and Her Beard

May 11, 2012 by Holly Lorincz 3 Comments

Last year, an Italian woman on Real Housewives of New Jersey admitted to dry shaving the hairs on her chin and lip. Of course, this is second hand information since I would NEVER watch that train wreck of a reality tv show. Never. Anyway Caroline Manzo was bashed hardily by viewers, commentators, and even her supposed reality peeps.

Filed Under: Television, ULE, Uncategorized Tagged With: beautiful bearded women

Coming to a neighborhood near you…

May 10, 2012 by Rabbi Bob 4 Comments

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The good people of CRAW [Clatsop Residents Against Walmart] are asking that as many people as possible voice their opposition to the permit application to fill the wetlands on the North Coast Business Park property that would pave the way for a Walmart in our area. That application is currently up for public comment until 5 PM today, Sunday – Mother’s Day, May 13. The application and comment form are available on DSL’s website (http://www.statelandsonline.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Comments.AppDetailLF&id=48466).

Filed Under: Culture, Nature, Politics, ULE Tagged With: Walmart

An Outsider Taking It On

May 10, 2012 by Crystal Nay 8 Comments

Having never before visited, Cannon Beach didn’t conjure images of any kind for me other than sand and waves, which can be very misleading for someone visiting from sunny Southern California, where the waves are bigger, the sand can burn your feet, and everyone runs around half-naked instead of thrice layered.

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Feature, Nature, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: beaches, Cannon Beach, Southern California, visitor

The Stag Horn and The Thorn: A simple stream-of-consciousness poem

May 9, 2012 by Sylvia Thunder Bird Leave a Comment

The stag horn and the thorn.
The blood and the flood.
The rose and the crow.
The taste and space.
The touch and clutch.
The ice and the dice.
The eye and the sky.
The ear and the deer.

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE, Uncategorized

Life: An Open Mind Poem

May 9, 2012 by Sylvia Thunder Bird 6 Comments

Astral – Feathers of Light
Branches and Seeds – Silver Moon Reach
Trunk – Living Stone, Faery Door and Ring
Roots – Proceeding in Mother’s Shadow
Fruit – Circle of Golden Elixir
Flower – Perfumed Dust of Life
Leaf – Green Veins and Shade

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE, Uncategorized

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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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