Vortex I or why there was no Vortex II

Signs along the way
We walked along the road, cars lining it on both sides, and stopped, filling both lanes, thousands of people moving along.. you could see across the valley from the high vantage point of the highway, and it was a beautiful day. We were hearing that traffic was stopped from [...]

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The Willamette

As a child I learned to love the river close up, my father bought a wood runabout, about 15 feet long.. he didn’t realize at the time the amount of upkeep needed.. it wasn’t long before I had a putty knife in my hand, scraping old paint with highly toxic paint remover from the [...]

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The Philosophy of Concrete…

When I was about ten, my father drove his pink 1955 Cadillac next to some temporary barriers, and we looked north.. seeing a ribbon of concrete running as far as the eye could see, then south seeing much the same.. except it ended at the bridges being built to accommodate four lanes of concrete. [...]

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Ramparts to Vortex. Whats that?

Ramparts, the Realist, the Berkeley Barb… if you hadn’t heard of these publications, or best yet, read them in minute detail, you were short of reading material for a sound mind… Big Brother AS a holding company as well as Big Brother AND the Holding Company. the politics and the music were [...]

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Richard and Mimi Fariña

The album that I have listened to for 30 years, was sadly , the second and final album Richard & Mimi Farina made, although Mimi went on to record with her sister Joan Baez, and create collections of recordings of Richard and herself. Reflections in a Crystal Wind is a rare insight into [...]

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