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Big, bad bass notes (opens the original)
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Check inFall has fallenThe autumnal equinox crept up on us this week. It began on September 23 for half the world, but it started on the usual September 22 in the Americas.The Harvest Moon is this week, too. Timeanddate.com says the September Harvest Moon is unique “because the Moon rises close to the same time several days in a row." This year’s Harvest Moon is full on September 26, the day I publish this issue. Early Thursday morning, the light from the waxing moon forced its way through the s
Am I a poet? (opens the original)
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Check in How do you read?Here is one writer describing another writer, a writer I like. The subject: reading.The writer is Petya K. Grady of A Reading Life, who interviewed Simon Haisell of Footnotes & Tangents. You might know him for the slow reads he sponsors of big books like War and Peace. Here’s how Petya describes the way Simon reads.He dog-ears his books, he forgets things . . . he daydreams while reading and sometimes misremembers what he
Morning light (opens the original)
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Check inQuick thoughtText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI should should should Do what I want want want But something else is telling me That I can’t can’t can’t.Light after dawningI often went out early this summer to capture the slanting light of the hours just after dawn.Sun from the east bathes this rank of old storefronts on Southwest Second Avenue. The Grand Stable & Carriage Co., built in 1887 (center), is on the N
Library stories (opens the original)
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Check inSeptember themeBack in December, I laid out some themes for the months of 2026. September’s theme was “moving our energy.” There is a definite sense of movement this month as the days shorten rapidly and the equinox approaches. Most of the month is in Virgo, an earth sign. In Oregon, there are copious earthy smells in September as the fall rains start and the earth releases its stored-up summer scents.This week, I was alive to the poetry of scent. The first hard rain in months released a
Bye-bye Belmont (opens the original)
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Check inAlien plant These strange flowers, which look like alien creatures with eyes and antennae, are an Australian import called grevilleas. I’d never seen them before I came across these while out on a neighborhood ramble last week.<img a
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