If less is often more, then haiku is one of my favorite ways to practice that happy discipline. I wrote these yesterday afternoon while camping on the Fourth of July. Fourth of July at Moss Creek Campground Fireworks, begone. The piney air penetrates My limbic brain-stem. Intoxicated On The Fourth Tipsy on pine air I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Oregon'
The Fourth In The Forest
July 5th, 2009 · No Comments · lifestyle, nature, simplicity
Tags: Camping·Fourth of July·fun·happiness·independence·Little White Salmon·Michael@NW Lens·Moss Creek·Oregon·outdoors
Oregon’s Best Writer: Robert Leo Heilman, Part I
July 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · community, sustainability, work
The Pacific Northwest where I live is a rich, complex environment so fertile that it gave rise to the coastal Indian custom of potlatch, a gift-giving ritual in which the more you gave away to others, the more status you had. (Hmm . . . what could we learn from that?) In modern times, my [...]
Tags: best writers·creative class·Jean Auel·Myrtle Creek·Oregon·Overstory: Zero·Pacific Northwest·potlatch·relationships·Robert Leo Heilman
Introducing: Resources For Good Living, Plus Contest With Two $50 Winners
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · energy, entertainment, food & drink, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation, work
My sidekick Hanmi Meyer and I are pleased to be posting this morning our new page Resources For Good Living. It’s a set of links, well-labeled and organized, to cool sites that help us increase our happiness and lower our consumption. While this opening date is a bit behind schedule (the summer solstice had been [...]
Tags: bicycling·carbon footprint·consumption·contest·energy conservation·family·fun·gift certificates·green living·happiness·life·links·Oregon·outdoors·religion·renewable energy·resources·thrift·water
The Pleasures Of Pedicabs
June 19th, 2009 · No Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, transportation, work
Yesterday afternoon I alit at the Amtrak station here in Portland, heavily laden with my laptop, book-bag and purse. It would be quite a trudge to where I needed to go. What should conveniently appear at the curb but a pedicab, pedaled by a lovely young woman named Margaret? Margaret, who leases her pedicab from [...]
Tags: bicycling·carbon footprint·cars·Cascadia Pedicab·fun·green living·happiness·Oregon·outdoors·pedicab·technology
Happiness In The High Desert
June 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Oregon, community, entertainment, lifestyle, money, nature
What did I do last night and how happy did it make me? I went running in the high desert, sang and got people to sing with me — for a 9 on my 1-10 scale of happiness. I’m in Bend, Oregon, for a conference on public participation. To the right is the type of [...]
Tags: American Pie·Bend·exercise·fun·happiness·high desert·Janet Johnson·Oregon·outdoors·public participation·running·thrift
