Continue Reading Die Plage (The Plague) Harley Gaber at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education In memory of Alice Meyer (z”l) who fought the rising dark forces to the end. Tiresias:” You mock my blindness? Let me tell…
Continue Reading Wooden Splendor Walk with me. It’ll transport you into a world of wonder, visions of fairy tales where gnomes and goblins, witches and wolves…
Continue Reading Possible Worlds Jun Kaneko at Portland Japanese Garden “The Japanese garden is not an enigma. Instead, it is more like an intricate and beautiful specimen of origami whose secrets cannot be readily…
Continue Reading We Must Risk Delight. Two weeks ago I spent an afternoon at a gray, empty beach. Associations to the metaphoric bleakness of the world at large…
Continue Reading The Great Escape I went down a dusty side road to take a last walk on the dike before hunting season begins and the area…
Continue Reading Don’t be a Sucker Let me explain why I chose photographs of glorious sunflowers as an antidote to today’s musings about Fascism 101. The term fascism…
Continue Reading We Owe it to Them In memory of all those who knew to accept the suffering and death with courage and dignity. This plaque hangs on the wall…
Continue Reading L’Shana Tova (5783) Friderike Heuer The Cook and Pomegranates (From the Series Tied to the Moon – 2018) The birthday of the world BY MARGE PIERCY I begin…
Continue Reading Unexpected Wonders Walk with me. I’m systematically doing the rounds of all my special places that will close certain hiking loops after September 30th,…
Continue Reading Impressions from Oregon City Not sure how many people would agree with this sentiment found on Oregon City’s Willamette Terrace walkway. But I do believe we…
