Sunrise

Sunrise

I could see the sunrise on Tacoma this morning. The volcano best known as Rainier. Snowfields some two hundred miles north were lit peach and pink by the incoming light from a far off star. In between was Loowit. The volcano best known as St. Helens. Moments like that knit… Read More

GOD GIVEN RIGHTS

GOD GIVEN RIGHTS

Yesterday, while Deven Patrick Kelly was out on a killing spree at the First Baptist Church in New Braunfels, Texas, I was at my own church: The Church of the Woods, deep in the Cascade foothills. I was on the search for the delicious little golden caps called chanterelle mushrooms. Unfortunately, I didn’t… Read More

Goodbye Katie Lee

Goodbye Katie Lee

Katie Lee, the 98 year old Arizona activist whose favorite word was fuck, died in her sleep on Wednesday, November 1st. Katie had dedicated her life trying to take down the dam that had drowned the place she loved most — Glen Canyon — the contoured caverns and seductive streams that… Read More

A Green Eyebrow

A Green Eyebrow

Looking through the window at the trees and the fog. The flush of new grass that comes when these Pacific rains return. Peaceful rains. Feeding the thin strip of green which clings to the western coast. An eyebrow of green. A parenthesis. A lover spooned against a mountain range and… Read More

A Month On A River

A Month On A River

One year ago. Middle of a month long journey. 290 miles on the Colorado River’s cold, red-silt water. 290 miles of a canyon spanning back 1.8 billion years. 30 days of wonder and delight. 30 nights of watching the moon grow full and then wane. Falling stars, shooting rapids, climbing… Read More

How To Deal With our New Reality

How To Deal With our New Reality

There is a place in the Grand Canyon called Red Wall Cavern. It is this place, featured in these pictures taken early on in my trip through the Grand Canyon last winter. When John Wesley Powell first saw the cavern on his expedition down the river, the one-armed explorer thought… Read More