A red cow | the high white hills

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Villanelle

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In idle moments I am prone To searches labyrinthian; I spend too much time on my phone. Squandered, the minutes I’m alone, In googling facts quotidian. In idle moments,...

Vernita

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Poetry by local writer and poet Mark Clemons   East of Yakima  Flocks of black birds  Wheel above the freeway, Scatter over blood brown Orchards broke by vineyards, Dust green groves of oak  And hills gone mauve with sunset, Their shoulders...

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The lost commencement address by Tom Robbins

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Updating this to honor the life and times of Tom Robbins, who walked on today. He lived a remarkable life.This post originally appeared here...

On the hard: Thea Foss

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From Classic Yachts to Fish Packers: Their Stories Movie Stars, Depth Charges and Tugboat Annie: The Story of the Thea Foss I still can't think of...

Spiders are Special

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Spider Web Colors Lasers? Northern Lights? Woven belts? No, this is a spider web. Lately I’ve been fascinated with one of the eight-legged arachnids—...

To Live a Good Life

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 A young friend of mine died — unexpectedly last week. Way too early. Decades too early. Jesús died in his sleep, in his bed,...

Our Pescatarian Birds – Part 2

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Part 1 of this two-part series included gulls, crows, a merganser, a tern, an auklet, and a guillemot with their fish. Now we’ll take...