by Jill Kelly Creative | Sep 25, 2013 | Blogs, Jill Kelly Creative
I live in what’s called Close-In SE Portland and springing up around my neighborhood are little free libraries. The first one showed up in the middle of the block next to the entrance to the co-op art studio I belong to. A little peaked roof cabinet on the side...
by Galahad | Sep 25, 2013 | Blogs, Galahad
The Five Worst Things About Being Homeless The Fear Oh God, the fear! It’s probably not surprising to imagine how being homeless would be a ‘bit scary’ to anyone aside from perhaps those that had done a few tours of Afghanistan or something, but being ordered to leave...
by Bets | Sep 8, 2013 | Betsy Toll, Blogs
Though Betsy wrote this piece more than a decade ago, prompted first by the events that unfolded in this country on September 11, second by our indefensible invasion of Iraq, and generally by cultures of violence, a world continually at war, I find this short essay to...
by Living At The Verge | Sep 6, 2013 | Blogs
With these words the imagination starts endlessly swaying away to days where past was created. And then with that grows a hypothetical story, a perfect one with a fairy tale ending! Each one of us has this strong urge to see things as we want them, to listen to what...
by Harry Holdorf | Sep 3, 2013 | Blogs, Essays, Harry Holdorf
First, we need the desire. Creativity inspires desire. Desire creates ideas. Today, our modern world is requiring a handy means of getting from San Francisco to Los Angeles, on the ground, in an hour. I submit, looking down on the West Coast from 30,000 feet, it looks...
by Russell Fuller | Aug 30, 2013 | Blogs, Leap and the net will appear, Russell Fuller
Women and hats, a magical combination beyond our manly comprehension, beyond our style, our grace, because “the men don’t know/But the little girl understand” [JM] More than once have I grabbed a hat off the shelf in our posh Salvation Army Thrift Store and looked in...
