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Poetic Flora or Modest Bloom?

An April Thursday delights the eye with modest treasures – small blossoms, peeking out from here or there.

Back home, on the computer…

• Nature, Poetry
• April 20, 2017
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Lying Trees?

On a spring Wednesday I revel in blossoming trees.

And no, Adorno can’t take the pleasure away from me, hard as he may…

• Politics
• April 19, 2017
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Nesting

On a spring Tuesday I am hunting for nests.  Mostly so I can recite this poem….

For every Bird a Nest—
Wherefore in timid quest
Some little…

• Nature
• April 18, 2017
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Spring

What do we do during spring here in Oregon?
 
On Monday we tiptoe through the tulips, and ponder which of the below is…

• Nature, Politics
• April 17, 2017
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Resilience

Today’s profile in this week on courage is about a man who lost his face. It was literally eaten up by a bacterial…

• Politics, Psychology
• April 14, 2017
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The Fight against Racism

Today I want to celebrate the courage of a woman known to all of us and the determination and ingenuity of a…

• Politics, Psychology
• April 13, 2017
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Converting Loss

It takes enormous courage to deal with traumatic injury or other assaults on your physical existence.

Here is the most encouraging story of…

• Psychology
• April 11, 2017
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Courage

Salvador Dali Impression d’Afrique (excerpt)
This week Jews around the world celebrate Passover, a commemoration of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt, complete with tales…

• Psychology
• April 10, 2017
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Heimweh/Fernweh

Occasionally German compound words capture with simplicity and accuracy a particular state of affairs. Heimweh denotes aching for home, (weh being a term…

• Travel
• April 5, 2017
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Improved in Translation

The German word for cemetery or grave yard is Friedhof which literally means courtyard of peace.

 

Today’s photographs try to capture that peace, with an…

• Travel
• April 4, 2017
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