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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

Songs page Archives (more of everything)

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

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.

Jake's Song Fiction.

I Load Rocks While Raven Rides the Wind Essay.

Thirteen Raven Poems Reading

Coyotes Sang and Reading poem.

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

Leo Rising Fiction.

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.

More essays, poems, songs and stories are available in Archives.

Other Stuff:

Gathering Images from a Wandering Journey Essay.

The Insidious Development of Keyboarditis Essay.

Killing Rattlesnakes Essay from archives.

Storms on the Pete Mann Ditch Essay

Driving Flies Essay and Reading from archives.

Housework by Gender Essay from archives.

More of everything is available in Archives.

Caution!!! Read Instructions Essay.

Get Up, Shiloh essay.

More of everything in archives.

The Coldest Place in Oregon Essay

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

Pasque Flowers' Spring Dance Reading

Developing Images Essay

The Earliest Flowers of Spring essay.

Essays from a Family of Four essay.

Webmaster's Diary April 28, 2024.

More of everything in archives.

A class is united by the 'button-factory bond' by Laura Remmerde.

Working around Red-Winged's Nest essay.

W.T. Essay from archives.

Story fiction.

More of everything in archives.

Smoke and Fire Essay.

Wasps Join us for Lunch Essay.

Electric Vehicles Editorial rant.

The Writer Rides in Autumn Sunshine 22% fiction and 73% fact, revised.

Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay.

Keyboarditis Essay.

Driving Tractor through Moments of Wonder Essay.

A Man Called Grandma Essay.

Learning to Swear Essay, revised.

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The Dark Heart of Winter Essay by Laura Remmerde.

The Beef You Eat Today Was Hydraulic Oil Yesterday Reading.

I Walked up the Hill Poem and Reading.

A Reverberant Woodpecker Pounds My Chimney

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.