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PAUL E NELSON

After the Japanese 5-8

My hiking partner and I had made it to the end of the Hoh River Trail, 17.5 miles, and had done a silence ritual, where each of us spent the day away from the other in the Olympic National Park. I’d gone to Blue Glacier, where I had the most incredible...

Sam Hamill & Christopher Yohmei Blasdel N.1.14

On November 1, 2014, the home of my spiritual community was the site of an event that truly illustrates the mission of the cultural wing of said organization, working at the confluence of creativity and spirituality. The evening was a presentation of two masters, Poet...

Bioregionalism or Endless Garbage

There needs to be a new idea or a more fleshed out idea of what a human being is in reference to sharing the biosphere with other life. – Peter Berg This is part of what essentially is Peter Berg’s parting message. It was given two months before his death...

Uncascadian

It was a long day, but one filled with vision and inspiration last Saturday (Dec 6, 2014) as I was part of a Board Retreat for CascadiaNow! I agreed to be Board President when asked by founder Brandon Letsinger and it is exciting to be part of a social movement to...

100 Poems After the Japanese

Having finished back in May a series of poems inspired by the classic Japanese anthology, I come to it now after letting the poems sit for a while, and re-read them in the spirit of seeing how my work is firmly rooted in what Peter Berg called...