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Exchanging gifts with Ursula

December 5, 2023 by Watt Childress 3 Comments

Le Guin’s writing has inspired me to question authority ever since my classmates and I read her work in school. [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Books, Culture, Featured Writing Tagged With: Barb Knop, Brandon Ogilvie, Bruce St. Denis, Cannon Beach, Gary Hayes, Lisa Kerr, Nancy McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin

Relampago en la Republica de Poemas

March 4, 2021 by Watt Childress 2 Comments

Les doy este circuito de letras cargadas por los recuerdos de nuestra amiga, la señora Ursula K. Le Guin, quien fusionó palabras en nuevos mundos brillantes. [leer más]

Filed Under: Art, Books, Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit Tagged With: Benjamin Franklin, Diana Bellessi, Dolly Parton, hillbilly, lyric essay, Pátzcuaro, Saint Lucia, Thunderstone, Ursula K. Le Guin

Tarea de las Patrias

April 2, 2020 by Watt Childress 2 Comments

La migración de ideas entre idiomas les da espacio para voltear alrededor. Pequeños descubrimientos en la traducción me vuelven a la magia original de las palabras. [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Books, Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit Tagged With: Diana Bellessi, El Centro de Ecoturismo e Idiomas de Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Pátzcuaro, Ursula K. Le Guin

Little and Big: a story about a town

April 5, 2013 by Ursula K. Le Guin 7 Comments

Once upon a time there was a little town by a big ocean. It was a wise little town. Long ago it had looked at its dunes and beaches, its big trees, its marsh where the red-wing blackbirds sang, its little streets and little grey shingle shops and houses, and said: This is all good.

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Filed Under: Art, Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Oregon Coast, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula Le Guin

Cannon Beach honors the seer of Earthsea

March 30, 2013 by Watt Childress 6 Comments

“Our little house is a wonderful, quiet place to work. Also a very good house for dreams, many people who’ve slept there have told me that. Dreams and the kind of writing I do have some connection. One morning when I was waking up in our Cannon Beach bedroom, the whole idea of one of the “Earthsea” books came to me as the light grew. When I got up, it was daylight and I had a novel to write.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
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Filed Under: Art, Books, Featured Images, ULE Tagged With: Ursula K. Le Guin

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Here Try Some of This Ointment

April 17, 2024 By Watt Childress 4 Comments

We are the Luminaries

August 8, 2023 By Watt Childress 2 Comments

Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

June 19, 2023 By Watt Childress 5 Comments

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    September 24, 2025 at 8:09 am
    on The Genocide of the American Indian, and Their Refusal to Die
    This response is far from timely, I know. But in honor of the ancestors I thank you for helping us
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    September 22, 2025 at 12:35 am
    on Three Poems and a Mountain
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