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Dawn’s dictionary of local-isms and geek speak

November 7, 2015 by RedSpiralHand 1 Comment

Baby Boomerang: An adult kid that moves back in to live with ma and pa…happening a lot these days. Dumb Phone: What I have.  The opposite of a “smart phone” which is what distracts a lot of people. Feral Female: Untamed and definitely undomesticated wild woman…watch out, there are a lot of ’em around here […]

Filed Under: Culture, ULE

Big Seeds

October 14, 2015 by Trav Williams 1 Comment

Seeds are no bigger than they were
When our grandfathers planted them.
Our farms are so much larger,
But there is not more land.

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE

Cover Crops

October 4, 2015 by Travis Champ 1 Comment

Emiliano was deported
last month.
Today he has returned
and is loading plastic tubs
of cover crops
into a dented white van.

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE

I saw a terrible crash

August 28, 2015 by Tristan Greeno 1 Comment

Out of body
 I was there Watching it happen Like the man on the TV I saw him shoot himself Every time I saw myself crash The smell of blown airbags Pieces of glass in my teeth I Cut teeth Still finding them in my shoes On these tender feet Weeks later Like my first […]

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE

crows in a wheat field (for Vincent)

August 16, 2015 by T H Savaht 3 Comments

in Sun you are weeping dragging last bits of impasto Black across the sky beside you wheat goes on forever golden waves breaking breaking crows gather thick to one side Black like sudden tears they shudder then fly away you hang your head you do not watch them go

Filed Under: Art, Poetry, ULE

Sentences

July 6, 2015 by Watt Childress 2 Comments

Minds dip all day into words,
seining food from conversations
and roving stacks of books.
We gather, compose, revise —
slowly meaning more.
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Filed Under: Art, Poetry, ULE

Remembering Steve McLeod

June 17, 2015 by K.Kerr 1 Comment

Here are a few more words and photos about Steve McLeod. He specifically posed himself into the hooped picture, and I think he meant for me to share it and the others if the time came. We didn’t speak about that time directly, but he seemed to be intimating it. For the past ten or more […]

Filed Under: Art, Photography, ULE

Marching for Monsanto to Change their Ways

June 3, 2015 by Sharon Amber 1 Comment

I snapped this photo outside my shop. Many thanks to these Cannon Beach folks who showed public support for health and Mother Nature!  They were marching in solidarity with Mexican farmers who on the same day celebrated Mexico’s ban of GMO corn. Thousands of people marched in more than 400 cities and more than 40 countries around the world. GMO […]

Filed Under: Nature, Photography, ULE

All Things Must Change — Eventually

May 30, 2015 by Rabbi Bob 6 Comments

Most Sundays (though this week it was Saturday), I talk with a German friend of mine, Volker, using the wonderful Skype software. Because we talk via our devices and not the phone, the “calls” are free (except for the Internet charges we pay in any case).[More…]

Filed Under: Culture, Politics, ULE

Strawberry Fields: Seems Like Forever

May 17, 2015 by Gregory Zschomler 1 Comment

I woke up this morning at 4:30 a.m., which is completely unlike me. I am not, in any way, nor have I ever been, a morning person. It’s a gawd-awful hour to be up. I don’t think that even Jesus has had his morning coffee by that hour. I don’t know why I woke so […]

Filed Under: Books, 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!
  • 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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