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How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • We pause

    What I see depends on where and when I am. If I’d been six feet or so to the right, or five minutes earlier or later, I wouldn’t have seen this bit of rainbow on a mostly blustery day. Robert Frost has a fine poem along these lines, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.…

  • Rear view mirror

    New Year’s resolutions infuse me with excitement. But a week or so before my Jan. 1 ritual, I take a pause to ponder where I’ve been and what I’ve done over the previous year. This is easy for me because I maintain a “got done” calendar. It may be counter-intuitive — most people prefer to-do…

  • Loving the dark

    The darkest time of year requires dark poetry. So here’s Irish poet Joseph Campbell (not the well-known chronicler of mythology) with a few fine lines. The dawn whiteness.A bank of slate-grey cloud lying heavily over it.The moon, like a hunted thing, dropping into the cloud. But even with Oregon’s “slate-grey cloud”, there are counterpoints, like…