Continue Reading Hike with Me! I was so indescribably happy 2 days ago when for the first time since my surgery 18 months ago I was finally…
Continue Reading No Trespassing Do you know that moment when you read something and all of a sudden things fall into place, finally a factual reason…
Continue Reading Let’s talk about trees What Kind of Times Are These BY ADRIENNE RICH There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary…
Continue Reading Ripped Threads “If it is true that all thought begins with remembrance, it is also true that no remembrance remains secure unless it is…
Continue Reading An Antidote to Heat A friend sent me a recent poem by Alison Mandaville, someone new to me. So I explored, jealous to discover the…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge II: Power! You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being,…
Continue Reading Unglücksrabe Random chain of thought on language and politics while I was watching my beloved crows and their babies. We have a phrase in…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: PaintOut on the Oregon Coast. The email came out of the blue, from someone I did not know. They liked the way I describe my encounters with…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge II: Of Baskets and Botany – A Biocultural Exploration “The arts and humanities have the potential to remind us of past environmental change and positive visions for our environment. What we…
Continue Reading Cheating I am knee-deep in several independent writing projects and so, this once (or once again?) I will cheat and put someone else’s…
