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Entries from July 17th, 2008

Jonesing For Hits

July 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments · community, entertainment

Future posts will be back to diamond-cut, wholesome fare on building relationships and community and saving money and carbon emissions via energy and gas conservation. But today the addict in me has to come forward and be known. The blogger addict, the one who craves hits. I jones for blog hits. I check my blog [...]

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Nature In The City: Raccoons

July 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · community, lifestyle, nature, simplicity

I got up before dawn this morning and went running at first light in Mount Tabor Park, near our house. Near a 100-foot tall Douglas Fir tree, I heard unusual scrabbling noises, so I stopped in my tracks to investigate. I saw an adult raccoon spreadeagled on the tree at about waist height, looking over [...]

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Diamond-Cut, Sustainable Marriage

July 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments · community, health & well being, lifestyle, relationships, sustainability

I am blessed to be in a happy marriage. My husband Thor and I share delight and trust in each other. But my life hasn’t  always been this way: I’m a survivor of two divorces, many more break-ups, and staggering amounts of emotional pain. I notice that things can change. Specifically, people can change. We [...]

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Ousting The Pavement

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments · community, health & well being, lifestyle

Guest post by award-winning journalist Colleen Kaleda: My husband and I recently bought a 96 year old house in a close-in neighborhood of Northeast Portland. If our land could talk — oh what would it say? Perhaps that it wants to shed its excess pavement. Our sidewalk still has hand-forged steel rings where horses used [...]

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Paddling the Carbon Lifeboat

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · lifestyle

Ewan O’Leary, the founder of the carbon offset company Little Carbon Feet, wrote the below (in italics) in response to my and Brandt Smith’s dialogue on Rethinking the Entitlement of Travel. I agree with Ewan that we’re in a lifeboat (emergency) situation with needing to reduce our carbon emissions — hence the title “Paddling the [...]

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