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Jon Remmerde

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Know Your Grower  Voice, Leiza Rea. Music, editing and engineering, Tom Neihus. Lyrics and melody, Jon Remmerde.

Poetry page,    Essays Page.    Fiction page    Songs Page   Books Page 

Featured: Dog's Body    Toilet Paper  Fiction.    Culture Shock  Essay.    W.T. Essay.     Diary 12-20-2025     Ants and Grasshoppers Essay.     Bad News Song     Everything's Gonna be All Right song.     Devastation Blues Song       The Writer Rides in Autumn Sunshine Fiction.    Blast Essay.      I Got Dreams Rolling around inside My Head   Song.     Autumn on the Mountain  Essay.   Father Elk  Fiction.     You Say I am a Cowboy Song.   Winter on the Meadow  Essay.  Understand an Edible-Pod PeaMistletoe in tree Poem and Reading     Close Encounters of the Heron Kind Essay by Laura Remmerde.   Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay.    Arizona Storm Essay.       Musings  One, 2wo, 3hree, 4our, 5ive, and 6ix.   Breakfast in Moonlight  

Featured 2: Unplanned Bounty  essay.    All the Winter's Interruptions  Essay.     Backstroke, clouds between rocksBreaststroke, Slowpoke Essay.  The Strongest Color  Fiction.      Recipe for Ling Cod song    A class is united by the 'button-factory bond' essay by Laura Remmerde.    Leo Rising  Fiction.    I Ain't Courtin' You No More  Song.       Blackbirds Flying in Sunshine  Essay.     A Poet and a Housekeeper  Essay by Laura Remmerde.     Liberating Horses  Essay.      Hey, Hey, Hey  Song.     Tips for Writers 1     I Dreamed We Danced  Poem.     I'm Headed down the Road  song.   Freedom for a Very Small Bird  Essay.     Smart Phones and Our Dumb Phone essay.

Tom Niehus provided editing, music and engineering for the songs below. 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

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Screech OwlFeatured Poems: The Beef You Eat Today Was Hydraulic Oil Yesterday  Reading     The Alchemist Works at Midnight    Reading    AI    Quickly   Recipe for Ling Cod     Holy Ground We Stand On  by Laura Remmerde and Reading of the poem.     Poetry is Seeing     Sore Butt Blues     Pasque Flowers' Spring Dance      Butterfly Name  Reading     Gardening the Desert   Reading

Guns, Wars, Murders, Destruction   Essay.

Trillions for War  Essay.

Several Short Statements from the Webmaster's Journal of 2018

We Are Better than That  essay. Revised 1/12/26.

Christianity Reviled  Essay.

Electric Vehicles  Editorial rant.

I Got Dreams  Essay.

 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 nearjoon With hat 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 ourJon splits wood 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, TheJon w/ guitar 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 clear washoseness 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.