Continue Reading Earth Day Ruminations Last Friday was Earth Day. The Oak Island nature trail on Sauvies Island had just opened after its annual 6 months-closure to…
Continue Reading Who will find Meaning? Today I want to draw your attention to a superb essay, in ever so many ways. It describes both, the exploration of…
Continue Reading Unintended Consequences My German readers currently have the opportunity to visit an exhibition called Macht! Licht! at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. The title is ambiguous…
Continue Reading Heading to Hillsboro The Oregon Humanities offers a terrific program called Dear Stranger. It is an annual letter-exchange project that connects Oregonians with each other,…
Continue Reading Against the Odds I was in a foul mood yesterday, raging against the limitations that surgeries have imposed on my life. Just three years ago…
Continue Reading April Shivers I have been cold in April before. Seriously cold. Shipped off to England from Germany during Easter break to learn English as…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge II: Of Harm and Healing We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people’s bodies, from communities, as if…
Continue Reading To Name is to Know The poem below was written this year in obvious response to what’s lurking. Volodymyr Dibrovar is a scholar at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research…
Continue Reading Bleeding Hearts The doves are back. Parading in front of my window, giving me stern looks that I have not put out any seed,…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge II: Felt Worlds. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” — ― Kurt…
