Category Archives: Environmental issues
Stop the Insanity: Just END Us Now
What if the Book of Revelations does not represent the will of God for man but simply represents his foreknowledge about man’s selfish, intractable and rebellious nature which will inevitably lead to his demise, and the earths, unless…
I am Joe Black: On Life and Death and The Practice of Kindness
My distant neighbor Molly complains that the bunnies in her yard eat her stuff–crops, flowers and ornamental plants, but at our house, the rabbits eat dandelion stalks and leaves almost exclusively. I’m down with that. It think it’s because her husband Dave grooms their lawn so scrupulously that the rabbits don’t have access to …
Dark Days Living in the Interior
I used to enjoy travelling around the interior western United States. But I never wanted to live there. In spite of it’s towering mountain ranges, mighty river systems, geological wonders and preponderance of National Parks, Forests and Monuments. I was always glad to get back to the west side of the Cascades, where the air …
Fly Fishing Fish and Other Amazing Animals
Last night I watched a re-run of Blue Planet II on BBC America. I love that program. There is not a lot of quality documentary style programming on Television anymore. Much of it is so dumbed down it has become most tiresome to watch. Nobody got time for that shit. But Blue Planet on BBC …
More on Beauty and Pain and a New Pledge of Allegiance
I’ve written before about beauty and pain. I wrote about the pain inherent in a woman’s personal pursuit to reaching an acceptable level of our societal standards of beauty. The waxing, the plucking, the dyeing…all of that crap. The beauty I’m thinking of today is the universal beauty of the world. The pain is the …
The Earth As a Stage
the power of mankind–how terrible it can be in it’s destructive power, how incredible it can be when used constructively,
A Tequila Sunrise And The Burning of Multnomah Falls
The sun resembled a slice of molten pink grapefruit this morning, partially obscured by the green lace of fir and cedar branches on the eastern edge of the yard. It made for an interesting composition framed by the wide expanse of clerestory windows over the bed. Sunrise in Western Washington isn’t usually such a spectacle. Sunsets …
Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
The weather forecast is for gradually moderating temperatures. It’s a hopeful thought that I try to hold on to as I breath, in and out, the ashes of a world on fire.
I’ll Bee in The Garden, Waiting… Again
©2017 by Ilona Elliott Spring seems to have settled itself in, finally, and there are all kinds of blooms out in the garden…waiting, waiting, waiting for the bees to get to work. They haven’t even clocked in yet, so we all wait, and wonder, where are they? I haven’t the heart to research the state …
Rainy Day Writing 
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