More specifically concerning: river
inquiry (1)
22 August 2003, around 0.55.
Indigenous people fishing at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River, 1950 (dammed 1957). ODOT Historical Travel Photos
constitutional
10 December 2003, around 15.33.
Swan, river, fog.
birds, for the
26 January 2004, around 17.00.
fulica atra ‘blissfully easy to identify’
Over a year
19 December 2005, around 18.15.
Hawthorne bridge, Portland, OR, Fall 2004
disorientation
22 July 2013, around 17.02.
An excursion.
from that other place
17 January 2014, around 20.58.
If one grows up in Oregon, one hears a lot about William Stafford. Always being the sort of person to avoid what other people are talking about (with no regard for its merit or interest), I never read any of his work until just a few months ago – and I expected to sneer even […]
meander
29 December 2019, around 11.06.
Looking for new paths to familiar places.
mellowing
24 November 2021, around 9.47.
Knowledge of values, in fact, is a matter of direct insight, like seeing that the sky is blue, the grass green. It does not consist of pieces of information that can be handed from one mind to another. In the last resort, every individual must see and judge for himself what it is good for […]
dreamscapes
14 May 2024, around 8.55.
I welke ay forth in wely wyse, No bonk so byg þat did me dereȝ. Þe fyrre in þe fryth þe feier con ryse, Þe playn, þe plontteȝ, þe spyse, þe pereȝ; & raweȝ & randeȝ & rych reuereȝ, As fyldor fyn her bonkes brent. I wan to a water by schore þat schereȝ— Lorde! […]
graveling
6 August 2024, around 18.08.
The road not lately taken.
arrheton
16 August 2024, around 10.09.
…the resistance of the material must be scrupulously respected. —Karl Kerényi (Eleusis, trans. Ralph Manheim, p. xxi)