Samhain Day of the Dead All Soul’s Day Our prayer: Bring us to the edge of the known Allow us access to what we swim in but don’t usually breathe. These thin days shift us like turned pages like the enter key like sleep. We enter the darkness of the year...(read more) Read Full Story
A friend, Willow Durant, is seeking stories of healing for a documentary project. I am honored to support Willow in the project. She is a loving, deep soul with a healing heart. --Beth Seeking Individuals interested in sharing their healing stories I...(read more) Read Full Story
The annual event in Bend for bookies and writers is happening this coming week, and some of us are pretty excited! The Nature of Words , November 4-8: a weekend that brings Literature to Life Click here for a complete print-ready schedule of this literary...(read more) Read Full Story
I’ve re-posted stuff from Joe Bageant’s blog “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War” before. He is the essence of brilliant curmudgeon-liness. I particularly like the post that came out today. It strikes home because of its truth:...(read more) Read Full Story
Read this as a poorly executed rap/slam. TAKE 1 Descartes' famous and cheeky declaration become the reason The rationalization The substantiation that it’s permissible even the calling card of the freakishly intelligent the class with the upper hand Subjugating...(read more) Read Full Story
The cure for boredom (or as my mother used to say 'what ails ya') or what is perceived as routine, mundane and numbing: whatever opens the experience of our everyday lives to extraordinary levels. I bought a telescope at a yard sale last weekend. I’ve...(read more) Read Full Story
As we near one of the 'thin places' in the calendar year-- All Soul's Day, All Hallow's E'en, and yes, even the Day of the Dead, those who have gone before are working with me even harder than usual to make contact and to teach me through my thick skin....(read more) Read Full Story
In the big scheme nothing good ever happens without descent. What fecundity would there be What mischief would ensue without the cyclical journeys of Persphone or Erishkegal descents marking the Shabbos of the surface of the earth? In human development...(read more) Read Full Story
This is the second guest post by Tania Crawford, a friend of mine who also lives in Central Oregon. She has such an authentic voice. She'd be honored if you gave her feedback. Selfishly, I'd love her to see that other people besides me think she is wonderful...(read more) Read Full Story
Colorado means “ruddy” or “red” in Spanish, a reference to the color of the waters of the Colorado River--often a rich muddy brown from silt run off and mountain decay. Just another coincidence that the prompt for this week is color as I visit a state...(read more) Read Full Story
