by Paul Nelson | Dec 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
On December 11, 2014, Cascadia lost one of its most important scholars when Ralph Maud died a couple of weeks short of his 86th birthday. He was three days older than my Dad who also died this year, but it was his interest in Charles Olson that connected us and his...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
I had just dropped off my daughter Ella Roque at her Spanish immersion pre-school and parked in front of my favorite juice bar when the top of the hour radio headlines broadcast that President Obama would be announcing a shift in U.S.-Cuba relations. I called my...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by Paul Nelson | Dec 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
