Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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The day before the smoke from Eastern Oregon’s wildfires smudged the Eugene sky, I saw the moon in the morning, on the wane in its unglamerous phase between full and half, known as gibbous. That Latin word isn’t the one I’d have chosen. If I were the boss of English, it would be the belly…
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A horse named Raven pulled me deep into this story, a historical tale set in Puritan-era New England where a woman named Silence is punished for expressing outsized emotions and must endure a year of not speaking. Of course I would gravitate to author Julia Park Tracey’s book. A while ago, I took up that…
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It’s whimsy, OK? But it’s more than that. We stumbled on Stan Peterson’s work by accident, when a road trip we planned didn’t pan out and we needed a new destination. So. We’re lying on a blanket under a shady tree in Spokane’s Riverfront Park (wonderful, surprising, must-be-visited). We’re bummed because we can’t proceed to…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 