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Jon Remmerde

essays, fiction, poetry, songs, photographs

 

Daily Prayer

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: Winter on the Meadow  Essay.    AI Poem    The Coldest Place in Oregon Essay     Toilet Paper Fiction.    I Eat Lunch Poem and Reading     Of Man and Mouse Fiction    Arizona Storm Essay.    Blast Essay.    Raindancer fiction    Captured. Enraptured Poem and Reading    Close Encounters of the Heron Kind Essay by Laura  Remmerde.    Garden of my Mind Poem and Reading     Culture Shock Essay.    W.T. Essay.    Bad News Song    Devastation Blues Song  The Last Great Western Srock Drive fiction    I Got Dreams Rolling around inside My Head Song.     Autumn on the Mountain  Essay.    You Say I am a Cowboy Song.   Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges 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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Philosophical Statements:

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.

 Screech OwlFeatured Poems:

Butterfly Name  Reading     The Beef You Eat Today Was Hydraulic Oil Yesterday  Reading     The Alchemist Works at Midnight    Reading   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     Gardening the Desert   Reading

 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.