What Did I Watch Days of Heaven (1978) A Terence Malick masterpiece set in depression-era Texas is straight out of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World (1948). Terence Malick is one of my favorite directors, and this was his second feature, and he wouldn’t make another film until Thin Red Line (1998). I watched it again […]
One time when I was fourteen or fifteen I took a mixture of drugs: marijuana, acid, mushrooms, morning glory seeds, some other herbal “legal” seed, and a disc of mescaline. I was out late, probably snuck out of my house, and was smoking cigarettes with some friends at Dunkin Donuts which is now a Starbucks. […]
Love is never a constant and steady thing where one feels it and if it is the one true love, never goes away. Love is fickle. Love is an action that one takes when they don’t feel it, to be grateful when one does feel it, and to never take the other person for granted. […]
One of my favorite things is to take Rufus for a walk in the orchard. Our house is surrounded by cherry trees of different ages. During the day, during the winter, there is a whole forest of short skeletons, but at night it is a haunted affair. I love that he can be off his […]
Time, of course and cliché-y, is an illusion. Sometimes it falls by us like windows of a building that we just jumped off with the wind whistling in our ears, and sometimes time treats us as immortals: slow. When certain days repeat, we stop and think of ourselves. New Year is no exception, and in […]
One of the best times of year in Portland is the false spring of February. The sun is out, it feels warm after so many cold gray winter days, and the idea of summer begins to be realistic. I love it for two reasons: one, it is the perfect temperature, and two, it is going […]
Meditation for August 18, 2016 Oregonian Support and Grief Group “Welcome to the Oregonian Support and Grief Group. This is a safe place where we can air our grievances and fears about people moving here and belittling us. We’ll start with any newcomers.” “Hello, my name is Tre, and I have lived in Portland since […]
Meditation for April 29th, 2016 Welcome It’s raining right now and you hope that it gets sunny soon? Well, you moved here and it rains here all the time so why would you expect it to be nice ever? It rains here. You moved here. Your expectations for a sunnier, warmer climate are unrealistic. Either […]
“How did it make you feel?” She asked as we barreled down Larch Mountain in neutral. The question was a strange one. She was asking how I felt about the view from atop of Larch Mountain where you can see almost 360 degrees around you and see nothing but mountains, hills and trees and sometimes […]