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Living With the Other – An Introduction and Consideration
To Begin With I’m currently living with an evergreen blackberry. The blackberry in the middle of July. It’s growing up out of the earth through a very tiny crack between the bottom of the wall and the...
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The Magic in Small Places
An entry in Encounters I already wrote about the abundance of life here on the farm. It’s evident everywhere you look: the plants tall, bushy and vigorous, the crops yielding fruit and leaves, flowers...
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A Short Meditation on Ducks
Today was supposed to be a particularly stormy day for us here on the Oregon coast. Up to two inches of rain was forecast, along with high winds. I found myself looking forward to this. While we’ve...
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A New Year’s Plan: Death, Poverty and the Household Economy
Predicting the Future As we move into 2012, my plans both for my life and this blog are beginning to take better form. As I wrote in my post on returning home, I am settling into this area—Nehalem, on...
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Encounters: An Introduction, Concerning Hubris
An entry in Encounters It strikes me that one of the great challenges we face at the moment is getting a grip on our own hubris. We need, first of all, to recognize its existence, which we too often do...
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The Desert Tells
An entry in the Encounters series Six weeks ago, I walked amongst the red rocks surrounding Sedona, Arizona. I was in Sedona after having driven my mother there and was able to take a few days to enjoy...
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Good Friday
An entry in the Encounters series I keep staring at the moon. I only noticed it perhaps an hour ago. Granted, I saw earlier in the day on my wall calendar that it would be full tonight, but I’ve become...
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A New Year’s Plan: Worshipping the Earth
I’ve always enjoyed New Year’s Eve and the ensuing New Year’s Day. The midnight celebrations of the new year strike me as somewhat magical moments, with a fresh year stretched out before me and all its...
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Tree Hugger
An entry in Encounters One of the challenges of attempting a life in the margins is the sense of alienation it can, at times, produce. Granted, a life lived within the confines of society’s dominant...
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