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How shall I think about fire?

Approx. read time: 1:30 min. The late afternoon bus rumbles west on Hwy. 126 through the center of the little town of McKenzie Bridge. I look to the north, beyond the two roads that intersect with the highway. Residents have been evacuated from their homes.  The backdrop just beyond is Lookout Mountain that eases down… Read more »

The fire that impels me to write

Approx. read time: 2:20 min A spiritual wakeup call came to me some years back, when I came across a blunt phrase of 16th-century writer, mystic, and Carmelite reformer Teresa of Avila. “The world is on fire,” she writes, “and this is no time to be concerned with unimportant things.” A spiritual wakeup call indeed,… Read more »

The wild raw power of Nature

Approx. read time: 3:05 minutes The wildfires that have ravaged my beloved McKenzie River Corridor sparked into being a month ago. The evening of Labor Day, to be exact.  Sparked, I say, because of downed electrical wires, the unsurprising outcome of a ferocious out-of-season windstorm. A hundred seventy-three thousand acres in the lower McKenzie River… Read more »

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