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A Pleasant Sunday
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
The weather here has been, at best, “unpredictable” so Leslie and I took advantage of a brief break in the clouds to go Belfair Sunday. The sunshine didn’t even last until we got there, but at least it didn’t rain on us.
Ever since I read Pyle’s Sky Time in Gray’s River I’ve been [...]
Hanford Nuclear Waste
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
I spent a year of my childhood in Goldendale Washington, downwind from Hanford Nuclear Plant. Like many people raised in that area, I got thyroid cancer at an extremely young age and still suffer from the side effects of it.
I spent another 35 years of my life downriver in Vancouver Washington. Needless to say [...]
Lee’s Behind My Eyes
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Mike recommended Li-Young Lee to me in January when he sent me a poem called “Early in the Morning”
EARLY IN THE MORNING
While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove flame, before
the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced
for breakfast, before the birds,
my mother glides an ivory comb
through her hair, heavy
and black as [...]
Muted
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Sunday’s trip to Theler Wetlands in Belfair was quite different from Saturday’s Port Orchard trip. The clouds had returned and temperatures had dropped remarkably, though not as low as Monday when we actually got some snowflakes here.
I’m not sure whether it was caused by Saturday’s massive turnout of visitors, the extremely high tide, or [...]
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