Tag: Oregon

I have chosen to walk through a portal; other times, I have crossed a threshold without knowing it until I was on the other side. One of my favorite solo activities as a kid was wandering the woods off the trail to find hallows, alters, ancient wonders, and a good stick. I would get poison […]

There is a saying that wherever you go, there you are, but sometimes you go where you were, and there you are now. Places change, and so do we. It is easier to imagine a place I have never been to be a greener pasture than to imagine where I am from being great again. […]

September 4th was my tenth anniversary from when I was initially diagnosed with stage three cancer. I have returned to Facebook after not being on it for the last four-plus years, and one of the things I got to look at is what I was posting during that time—memories through social media. While it has […]

What Did I Watch Days of Heaven (1978) A Terence Malick masterpiece set in depression-era Texas is straight out of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World (1948). Terence Malick is one of my favorite directors, and this was his second feature, and he wouldn’t make another film until Thin Red Line (1998). I watched it again […]

Love is never a constant and steady thing where one feels it and if it is the one true love, never goes away. Love is fickle. Love is an action that one takes when they don’t feel it, to be grateful when one does feel it, and to never take the other person for granted. […]

One of the best times of year in Portland is the false spring of February. The sun is out, it feels warm after so many cold gray winter days, and the idea of summer begins to be realistic. I love it for two reasons: one, it is the perfect temperature, and two, it is going […]