by Paul Nelson | Apr 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
One of the great delights of the Internet Age is that the local newspaper, now all but gone in our society, has been reimagined as the neighborhood blog. I envisioned this 20 years ago while living in Auburn, Washington, as a portal that would include micro-local...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Another Salish Art card from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest and one I’ve used before. We miss our cats, not that they would have been able to ward off attic rats. There is just something creepy about rats in the house and worse, in the attic. Like the feeling...
by Paul Nelson | Apr 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
by Paul Nelson | Apr 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
God is dead but Satan abhors a vacuum. And religion/spirituality in North America has been replaced with neoliberalism. I find this out during the current U.S. Presidential campaign when I engage (mostly on Facebook) friends who support the candidacy of Hillary Rodham...
by Paul Nelson | Mar 27, 2016 | POPO
If you believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine, you know the lung/heart meridian is related to grief. I can’t help thinking that anytime someone has a smoking habit, grief must not be far away. Combine that kind of thinking (radical/root-oriented) with the fact...