Continue Reading The Aftermath The National Center for PTSD estimates that 28 percent of people who have witnessed a mass shooting develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and…
Continue Reading Strength It is probably safe to assume that we are all reeling from the news of the weekend, the mass murder inflicted on…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Chachalu – Place of Burnt Timber Some days are more surprising than others. Yesterday was one of them. Through a series of misunderstandings and unanticipated cancelation of a…
Continue Reading Go On Every green room of the forest planted:Trillium and quince, alder and salmonberry, …—Robert Sund You could go on, I know—green room to green…
Continue Reading Who owns tomorrow? During a walk at Jackson Bottom, a nature preserve in Washington County, I learned that two of the three osprey fledglings I…
Continue Reading Lilies galore Out and about in Washington County, I saw signs at the side of the road advertising a Lilyflowerfest – “the only one…
Continue Reading Exquisite Gorge 5:The Alchemist “Alchemy – noun : a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way.” (Merriam-Webster) The English word alchemy…
Continue Reading Power Dams I have been thinking a lot about the Columbia river in the context of writing about the Maryhill art project of wood…
Continue Reading Dragonflies And now for something utterly different, simply because of my chance to sit still and photograph a few dragonflies recently – …
Continue Reading RISD adventures A few weeks ago I went to the museum of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. I had never…
