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Four Four Thirty-four
Sitting in my living room at 5:45 a.m. with strong French roast coffee that smells pleasantly skunky. A blank journal page lies waiting on my lap. Early…
Apr 5
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March 2024
Pen on the Paper
I recently attended a writing workshop facilitated by Jenna Butler and sponsored by the Spring Creek Project. For many years their Shoutpouch Creek…
Mar 15
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February 2024
Night Drive
8 p.m. on an rare night drive into Upper Smith River. The pickup and I crunched into the gravel pullout at the brink of our descent to the Johnny Gunter…
Feb 20
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February Field Notes
On a February day a long time ago, Mom was driving a grade school version of me west on I-105. For reasons I can’t remember, we were alone in the car…
Feb 6
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January 2024
Ridgetop
A chilly January dusk in the Coast Range. Rain-soaked daylight dropped away like a stone disappearing into deep water. With the woodstove at the Johnny…
Jan 14
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December 2023
Open Your Skin
[NOTE: This is a short preamble to a video recording of me reading a winter meditation entitled “Open Your Skin” with jazz guitarist Don Latarski. If…
Dec 18, 2023
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November 2023
Sift
Poetry with Jazz Guitar
Nov 27, 2023
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Killing Frost
Eight a.m. I am in the living room of the Johnny Gunter house. A beautiful full-moon night, clear as spring water and pebbled with stars, has passed…
Nov 5, 2023
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October 2023
Marster Spring
We are on the third day traveling around a basin once filled by Paleolake Chewaucan. Our group has moved steadily through time, from nearly 15,000 years…
Oct 12, 2023
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September 2023
Lookout Creek
Many years ago, I realized that the University of Oregon wouldn't fire me for building creative writing exercises into my upper-division biology course…
Sep 6, 2023
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August 2023
Apricots
I’m canning apricots at my brother’s house. After 15 fruitless years, his tree sends down a cascade of orange orbs. We take buckets and boxes into the…
Aug 15, 2023
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July 2023
Evaporation
Lately, I’ve been traveling to the nearly treeless expanses of southeastern Oregon to visit Mom. She is living out her days with my youngest brother at…
Jul 26, 2023
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