I hold still for the light as it plays on the horizon before the earth turns and shows its treasures to the sun and then the moon. Sea animals roam at my feet and I see what they do. It is change that we see.
Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies – Paul E Nelson
Paul is a poet and a tireless advocate for Cascadia. He has written a description of what he calls "Organic" poetry and shows its refractions and its heritage in a poetic flow of references. Paul's focus is on the west coast and talks about how it is influenced more by the east than the west, …
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Using Your Shape At Sea
Scattered
Scattered an ability to go with the natural flow of life and interests of the moment. the feeling of moments flowing in time - it is the feeling of time - it is what time is. it is interactive, time engaging and the mind responding and showing and then the reverse takes hold. it is …
A Sense of Place
Evening In May
…nature’s laws … are the only measures that count…
Capitalism, for all its merits and failings as a 500-year practice, may be better than the alternatives, but may not be able to meet the stringent conditions imposed by nature's laws. These, ultimately, are the only measures that count.From "The Common Sense Canadian" Ray Grigg on anthropologist Ronald Wright. http://thecanadian.org/item/2056-anthropologys-capitalism http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_myth_of_human_progress_20130113/
Northwest Oystering – On The Salish Sea
These photographs are of the Taylor Shellfish Oyster operation in Bow, WA and surrounding area just a few miles south of Bellingham on Chuckanut Drive.- rlw
Morning Solitude
Pinus contorta – Shore Pine – Washington Coast
Islands, Ocean, Mainland and Cascade Mountains
Blue
Island Reeds
March Life & Death
Kenneth Rexroth on Morris Graves – 1955
It is rare that a towering intellect will let an artist have the last words on the judgement of his own work and worth. But Rexroth has done just that here in this 1955 piece. This essay is a wide-ranging contemplation of Graves when he was in his prime. Rexroth was in his prime as …
Whidbey Island – 1854
Plate 68: Mount Rainier and Whidbey Island. Engraving by John M. Stanley, 1854. (Click to enlarge). From: University of Washington Library Archives #NA4173. Note: We'll go with the spelling of Whidbey.
Northwest Polytheism
The power of myth, its reality, resides precisely in its power to seize and influence psychic life. The Greeks knew this so well, and so they had no depth psychology and psychopathology such as we have. They had myths. And we have no myths as such—instead, depth psychology and psychopathology. Therefore…psychology shows myths in modern …
An Island Neighbor – Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis
"The Haida believed both animals and people had souls, which were essentially the same. The bodies of different animals were merely their "canoes" and all were capable of assuming other forms at will; "or better, they possessed a human form, and assumed their other forms when consorting with men." The killer whales were believed to …
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Greys Harbor Littoral – Seagrass of the Pacific Ocean
Behold the Sun
San Francisco Poet – FERLINGHETTI: A REBIRTH OF WONDER – Theatrical Trailer
A Tentative Spring
Sunrise This Morning
“The Practice of the Wild” – Gary Snyder
January Waiting On the Edge
Coast Douglas-firs Reaching for the Sun
Haida Animal People – Pacific
"The Haida believed both animals and people had souls, which were essentially the same. The bodies of different animals were merely their "canoes" and all were capable of assuming other forms at will; "or better, they possessed a human form, and assumed their other forms when consorting with men." The killer whales were believed to …
Sensing a Path
If genius is profuse, never ending - stuck in the middle of a work is - the wrong track, Genius is the track seen. Once seen it is impossible to keep from it. The superficial definitions, such as "genius is industry, genius is hard work, etc. " are nonsense. It is to see the track, …
Pacific Return
John Muir’s Description of The Pacific Northwest in 1901
"The vast Pacific Coast reserves in Washington and Oregon--the Cascade, Washington, Mount Rainier, Olympic, Bull Run, and Ashland, named in order of size--include more than 12,500,000 acres of magnificent forests of beautiful and gigantic trees. They extend over the wild, unexplored Olympic Mountains and both flanks of the Cascade Range, the wet and the dry. …
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Winter Colors – Greenbank
Native Grove of Rhododendrons
Along the hiking trail at Greenbank Farms woods in central Whidbey Island.
The First Time On The Pacific
The First Time On The Pacific just eighteen. my nerves were adjusted. not only the speed but the direction. the pattern of rush lifted from stars and space, the place between planets and each other. is it black? what does it hold? the place we can't see, cannot understand. but we feel it. it shoots …
Henry Gilpin (1922-2011) – Northern California Landscapes
photo - Henry Gilpin - "Highway 1, 1965" Background http://www.johnsexton.com/Henry_Gilpin_remembered.html http://redwoodgallery.co.uk/photos.cfm http://www.freestylephoto.biz/board/gilpin/gilpin_bio.htm http://www.russlevin.com/gilpinthms.html
Jack Gilbert – A wonderful American Poet – Visions of California, Greece and Linda.
A Winter’s Day
John Cage – American Inventor
Photograph by Vincent Mentzel 1988/Hollandse Hoogte/Redux. " Cage requires a fundamentally different mode of listening: you need to relinquish expectations that successive sounds will fall into familiar harmonic relationships, or indeed relationships of any kind, and instead treat each moment in isolation. You “regard” the sounds as you would objects in a gallery. More …
Straight of Juan de Fuca
Back To The Emerald City
Pacific Northwest Connections Are Critical to Orcas
Baby Island – Inhabitants: Seals Only
Looking West – The Olympics
Marisa dos Reis Nunes
la mer
The Sea, The Sea
The Sea, The Sea Routine till its not. Sun and wind and blue moving at their own pace yet quickening to work together to follow their natures with pushes and pulls and the wind works the sea and the sea works the sky and the sky works the wind.And we,observers.Yet if we are in the way, in …
Lives All At Once – Whidbey Island
The San Francisco Renaissance – Rexroth
Seattle Spaces
Gary Snyder – Thoreau Prize
Hanging Out On The Saratoga Passage
Its sort of boring here, good boring. Earthquakes north at Queen Charlotte Islands and the hurricane back east. Its raining and fifty here. So much to do. Its Sunday and we have a full house, isn't it wonderful?
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