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The annual event in Bend for bookies and writers is happening this coming week, and some of us are pretty excited! The Nature of Words, November 4-8: a weekend that brings Literature to Life Click here for a complete print-ready schedule of this literary long weekend! The mission of The Nature of Words is to [...]
I’ve re-posted stuff from Joe Bageant’s blog “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War” before. He is the essence of brilliant curmudgeon-liness. I particularly like the post that came out today. It strikes home because of its truth: for many in the world, ‘jobs are their livelihood, not their lives…’ and the flow [...]
I discovered a new word this past weekend and got really excited. I mean, really, how often do we come across new words that we can use? And, what is more important to how we are in the world than the words we use? Intellectually, at least, I get that it is the words I [...]
Read this as a poorly executed rap/slam. TAKE 1 Descartes’ famous and cheeky declaration become the reason The rationalization The substantiation that it’s permissible even the calling card of the freakishly intelligent the class with the upper hand Subjugating sacrificing our sacred living experience our heart-mind To our puny little addicted brains And now* every [...]
Once apon a time….say last April….there was a lady who had experienced significant loss. Her heart was hurting and she felt lost and alone in a familiar world. She said to herself, “I just need to be alone for it is there – by myself – where the healing is”. As Spirit would have it, [...]
The cure for boredom (or as my mother used to say ‘what ails ya’) or what is perceived as routine, mundane and numbing seems to be opening to experiencing our everyday lives on extraordinary levels. I bought a telescope at a yard sale last weekend. I’ve wanted one for a long time. It’s not a [...]
As we near one of the ‘thin places’ in the calendar year– All Soul’s Day, All Hallow’s E’en, and yes, even the Day of the Dead, those who have gone before are working with me even harder than usual to make contact and to teach me through my thick skin. Being an initiate to the [...]
In the big scheme nothing good ever happens without descent. What fecundity would there be What mischief would ensue without the cyclical journeys of Persphone or Erishkegal descents marking the Shabbos of the surface of the earth? In human development the first task is ascent the second is descent. Leaving one’s ego to fend for [...]
This is the second guest post by Tania Crawford, a friend of mine who also lives in Central Oregon. She has such an authentic voice. She’d be honored if you gave her feedback. Selfishly, I’d love her to see that other people besides me think she is wonderful with words and ideas as I’d like [...]
Poem of the Month ~ October 2009 Harvest what you know: what three things do you need to be able to do to live in this world? Love during this wonderful season of the year, Krayna From Beth Patterson’s collage work “Douglas Firs were our Sanctuary” In Blackwater Woods Look, the treesare turningtheir own bodiesinto [...]
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