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Jon Remmerde

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essays, fiction, poetry, songs, photographs

 

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


Typewriter on the Mantle  Essay.

Homework for Bus Class  Essay by Juniper Kistner (nee Remmerde)

Typing, Keyboarding, Speech to Text  Essay.


 I Load Rocks While Raven Rides the Wind  Essay.

Thirteen Raven Poems   Reading

Coyotes Sang  and Reading  poem.

Venison Summer  Essay.


Burned Out Blues  Poem.  Reading ,

Dance of the Least Weasel  Essay.

No TV, No Cell PhoneEssay.

Santa Fe's Organic Vegetables Essay.

Guns along the Northfork  Essay.

Horse and Fence  Essay by C. Remmerde.

Golden Summer; Gold from the River  Essay

Tips for Writers 1  Essay.

Pasque Flowers' Spring Dance   Reading

Metaphors for Breakast and Reading


Sourdough  Essay.

Potato Chips and Love  Essay.

That Casserole  Essay.


Bad News  song by J.R. (More songs on Songs page.)

Devastation Blues  Song by J.R.

A Motley Crew Buys Kefir  Essay.

Holy Ground We Stand On  Poem by Laura Remmerde and Reading of the poem.

Ambition at Daylight  Poem.

Autumn of Dying Tees  Essay.

A Poet and a Housekeeper  by Laura Remmerde.

Liberating Horses  Essay.

Culture Shock  Essay.

Boisterous Rats  Essay.


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)

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.

       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)

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.


Smoke and Fire  Essay.

Wasps Join us for Lunch  Essay.

Electric Vehicles  Editorial rant.

Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay.

Keyboarditis  Essay.


 

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Christianity Reviled  Essay.

We Are Better than That  essay.

Guns, Wars, Murders, Destruction   Essay.

Trillions for War  Essay.

Several Short Statements from the Webmaster's Journal of 2018

Father Elk  Fiction.

Give Me Some Sugar  Fiction.

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

The Committee  Essay.

Dream of Winter and Reading  poem.

Winter Wind   Essay.


 

I Got Dreams  Essay.

 

One Man, One Dog, Forty Steers  Essay.

 

In the Beginning  Book. 23 surreal fiction stories. 

 

Quiet Paople in a Noisy World  Book. 73 essays.

 

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

 


 

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.

Bees Eat from Our Lawn  Essay.

A Reverberant Woodpecker Pounds My Chimney  Essay.





 

Getting down to Laughter  Essay.

To Give or Not To Give  Essay.

Blast  Essay.

Jim Flies the Red Tractor  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.


Clothesline  fiction.

I Dreamed We Danced  poem by J.R.

Down to the River  Song by J.R,

I Got Dreams Rolling around inside My Head Song by J.R.

Night Sweepers  Song by J.R.

I Ain't Courtin' You No More  Song by J.R.


Llamas are Herd Animals  Essay.

Larry Llama  Essay.

A Long-Necked Profile in Courage  Essay.

Family Cohesion on the Ranch Essay.

Family Education 1981 Essay.

Time Flies When I'm Having Fun essay.

Golden Belgian, Golden Autumn Essay.

The Bullfight I Nearly Joined  Essay.

Butterfly Name and Reading   Poem.

Our Christmas Angel  An essay by Laura Remmerde, and her Reading of the essay. 


Purl's Sunny Approach to Picking up the Pieces   essay.

Intention and Purpose of this Website.

Gardening the Desert  poem  Reading


Lyle's Place  Fiction

 

From this Valley  Fiction.

 

Gift of Creativity  Essay.

 


Admonitions from the Wind  Essay.     

 

All Things Loud and Electrical  Essay.

 

Driving the Crumpled Car    Essay.

 

Elk on the Meadow   Essay.

 

Blackbirds Flying in Sunshine  Essay.

 

Breakfast in Moonlight  Essay.

 

Winter of Dancing  and Reading.

 

Back to the Land Fiction.

 

Toytown essay.

             More of everything in archives.


Driving Tractor through Moments of Wonder  Essay.

A Man Called Grandma Essay.

Learning to Swear  Essay, revised.


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.