I ate free food twice this weekend, once Friday at Reed College's centennial celebration, and then Saturday morning at a St. Francis hot dog/hamburger/winter clothing give-away. The company was more erudite and calm at Reed, the long-term homeless on the west side of the river tend to be stereotypically disadvantaged. I chewed beef thoroughly and ( Read more... )

This year took about as long as any I've ever seen to become warm everywhere, even now certain weeds are still shrugging blinking into the sun. The curse of a lawn ( Read more... )

Admitted that making my own kombucha was not part of my life right now. Said admission really only recognition too late. Moldy scobies--my high school self could not have conceived what I just saw. Every day my vocabulary expands. The 99E bridge over I-84 has different words when biked from north and south ( Read more... )

Getting off a plane makes me want to keep a journal. You can forget everything without proof. Portland seems much the same, it hasn't rained lately and of course the summer is lovely. A friend was on the flight to Seattle and I had some words, missed others ( Read more... )

A beautiful sunset was falling across the city as my plane landed. I biked from the Portland airport, it was great until I hit Columbia and then there were a lot of cars and no provisions for bikes ( Read more... )

A MXT theater exercise I always liked had the actors stand in a circle and simultaneously ( Read more... )

A twenty-person bike-powered bar has begun traversing the streets by my dance studio. You can hear the happy babble of conversation a few blocks away, slowly swelling with the gentle progression of a parade. People are still awkward on it, embarrassed by their good fortune (or their absurd ride?). Ready to admit Portland awesome. A woman was ( Read more... )

I think I've read this book five, six times. Maybe eight but probably not, its a cracking read but it takes a while to forget how bad parts of it are. Bad. Silly? It is a book of heroes and technology, there is no room for questions of morality or modulations of character. Good men and women are made better by the evil ranged against them ( Read more... )

I know how to keep a fire alive in the rain, you don't let the wind blow water into the flame. Or you let the wood block the water. Or you let a fire die when the rain falls straight down. Or you cover the fire and yourself ( Read more... )

Four hundred years ago I was writing a very important paper about theater and directing, it was finally coming together, all these words were simply in the wrong order, the truth was inside them. I turned it in on Thursday afternoon and didn't feel that triumphant again until this January when tEEth won $10,000. Triumph needs so much heart. Victory ( Read more... )