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The sermon I've linked to below describes what is happening in the world now. A bit more than eighteen minutes and very worth listening to.
https://youtu.be/Blph_2RSBno?feature=shared

Unplanned Bounty essay.

Four-Wheel Drive on the Meadow essay.

Dark Night in a Dark Cabin essay.

Earth Thinks about Spring and Reading Poem.

The Strongest Color Fiction.

Harmony on the Feedground Essay

Autumn on the Mountain Essay.

Learning to cross country ski essay

Cross Country Skiing in Moonlight essay.

All the Winter's Interruptions Essay.

poems: After Drought Reading

The Alchemist Works at Midnight Reading

Captured. Enraptured Reading

Create to the Future Essay

Camping without a Campfire and Without a Camera Essay.

Diary, June 25, 2024.

Short and Happy Life of Spaghetti Johnson fiction.

Iron Thumb, Beavers and Me Essay from archives.

Rain Poem and Reading.

Writing a New Poem and Reading

A Man of Power, with spikes on His Boots Essay.

Gathering Images from a Wandering Journey Essay.

The Insidious Development of Keyboarditis Essay.

Killing Rattlesnakes Essay.

Storms on the Pete Mann Ditch Essay

Driving Flies Essay and Reading

Housework by Gender Essay

Caution!!! Read Instructions Essay.

Get Up, Shiloh essay.

The Coldest Place in Oregon Essay

Laura's Poem (In the Beauty of Earth Itself)

Developing Images Essay

The Earliest Flowers of Spring essay.

Essays from a Family of Four essay.

Webmaster's Diary April 28, 2024.

Smoke and Fire Essay.

Wasps Join us for Lunch Essay.

Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay.

Keyboarditis Essay.

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Guns, Wars, Murders, Destruction Essay. Revised 8/3/2025.

Trillions for War Essay.

Several Short Statements from the Webmaster's Journal of 2018

We Are Better than That essay. Revised 8/8/2025.

Electric Vehicles Editorial rant.

I Got Dreams Essay.

I’ve spent my life fighting bullies. I still believe there’s hope for America | Robert Reich | The Guardian

I took care of a hay and cattle ranch in northeastern Oregon, then the water inlets for the city of Bend, Oregon, on Tumalo Mountain, then a Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Denver and then another Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Fort Collins, Colorado.

Laura and I and our daughters, Juniper and Amanda, lived on the places we took care of. My family participated in the caretaking and in the adventures of living in the mountains, nearly outside the consumer culture.

Much of my writing tells about our experience as a family on remote ranches, close to wildlife and away from the consumer society

I’ve published essays, short fiction, and poetry in The Crab Creek Review, Back Home, Bellowing Ark, Bugle, The Christian Science Monitor, The Doula, The Fiddlehead, Home Educator’s Family Times, Home Schooling, Men's Fitness, Northwest, Summit, The Sun, a Magazine of Ideas, Yoga International, The Wolf Head Quarterly, Zyzzyva, and other magazines and newspapers. I’ve published books of fiction, and books of non fiction.

Many of my essays

and some of my books are about living off the grid, about wildlife we saw and interacted with, about the closeness in our family that came partly from living and working in undeveloped areas, about the education of our daughters within our family, and about the perspectives we developed partly because we lived close to the land, with nature and wildlife around us.

Somewhere in an Oregon Valley Book.

Quiet Paople in a Noisy World Book. 73 essays.

James Jackson Riley fiction, novella, 11,343 words.

Songs: Tom Niehus, editing, music and engineering. Voice, Leiza Rea and Tom Neihus.

Lyrics and melody by Jon Remmerde.

These songs and some others are available through retail outlets. Type The Night Sweepers: Keep on Making Music into a search engine to locate and buy.

Snowy Owl

Trucker in Early Morning

Independence Day

Move out of this Town

Desert Storm

Raven

Keep On Making Music

Christianity Reviled Essay.

Father Elk Fiction.

Give Me Some Sugar Fiction.

Musings One, 2wo, 3hree, 4our, 5ive, and 6ix.

The Committee Essay.