Who read Moby Dick in the fourth grade, has a great-grandmother who starved to death in post-Bolshevik Russia, believes you should retire at night tired from honest work, and notes that many corporations exhibit sociopathic behavior?
That would be Robert Leo Heilman, the author from rural Oregon I interviewed recently on the phone. I see him [...]
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Oregon’s Best Writer, Part II
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · entertainment, health & well being, work
Tags: art·autodidact·family·life·Oregon·Overstory: Zero·relationships·Robert Leo Heilman·transformation
Oregon’s Best Writer: Robert Leo Heilman, Part I
July 3rd, 2009 · No 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 home [...]
Tags: best writers·creative class·Jean Auel·Myrtle Creek·Oregon·Overstory: Zero·Pacific Northwest·potlatch·relationships·Robert Leo Heilman
