Dave

  • Landscape Americans

    November 30, 2014 Driving down the Columbia Gorge, Belinda and I searched for a radio to pass time. We came upon an interview with an American Indian woman. She was in the middle of making a point that Native Americans… Continue reading

  • Turkey Stock Spirituality

    November 27, 2014 James, a neighbor from down the road, and I visited over coffee last Tuesday at the Cougar Den. I watched a young man walk in, his Resistol worn and dirty, the Carhartt wore in but not tattered,… Continue reading

  • The Warming Fire

    November 19, 2014 (Updated) Each year American Indian Heritage Month arrives and each year I find the writing I make public, hard. When temperatures just outside the farmhouse window linger in the single digits, I prefer to write of warm… Continue reading

  • Great Music is Country Music

    November 16, 2014 All great music is country music. From Handles Water Music to Guy Clark’s Homeless, music that matters is music of landscape. The landscape sings. Not metaphorical nor exacting music, rather the song of landscape rises from the… Continue reading