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…
Continue Reading A Duck’s Tune We started the week with Native American art and we will close with it too. LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is…
Continue Reading Spring in Oregon Today BY BILLY COLLINS If ever there were a spring day so perfect,so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throwopen…
Continue Reading The Red Shimmer of Remembering – Celilo Recalled at The Reser “…Make sure the spirits of these lands are respected and treated with goodwill.The land is a being who remembers everything.You will have…
