OREGON’S NORTH COAST faces problems common to many destinations. Increasing demands on resources boosts momentum for heavy urban growth. Without careful management, this accelerates overcrowding and makes matters worse. [Read More]
Featured Writing
Uncle Zech’s Amphibious Gestalt
Cultures native to Turtle Island consider frogs to be among the “first people.” Could this be a way of acknowledging our elder kin in creation, animal relatives who might show us how to jump back from desolation?
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Six Eras
From up here, the little village packs in more and more till tempers rise. The brown old rock looms over hunters of tranquility, rare to find elsewhere. And peace…how they look for a moment of peace. We have enough to share.
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Attending To It
The full moon has rolled west
out of view, its light
reduced to a trickle
through the black frame.
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Everybody’s kin to Jesus (Part 1)
I reckon much of what’s happening now is a cultural reflux of what went down a while back, when rulers began using Jesus as a prop for colonization. Empire has co-opted spiritual leadership in this way for millennia.
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Slip Slidin’ Away
Still humming, smiling, finally knowing where I am.
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Runny Birds
Sanderlings are pitching like rafts
ignoring the line of surf-sorted shells
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Elixirs of the Gods
Hiking high in the mountains, I seek freshwater streams flowing from glaciers. Cupping my hands for a drink is heaven.
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Here Try Some of This Ointment
Imagine life where everyone pitches in with a mix of chores and creative leisure. One barely sees this balance from today’s towers of ranking prey.
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The Beautiful Live Wire of 2024
Out here on the Coast we locate our ways of feeding our souls and we’re best when we keep regular with them, car or not, rain-wet mess man or whatever. [Read More]
Tax-and-Spend Tourism Devours our Coast
Appetites have hugely altered this place first recorded by explorers as “No-cost,” an ironic name for the spendy spot where residents and visitors haggled over blubber. [Read More]
READ ALL ABOUT IT! 1999
I’m a Bruce Lee of Christmas book-wrapping
just slaying everything I’m handed.
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