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CASUAL BIRD WATCHING WITH BABY DUCK

Casual bird watching is just a short drive away to the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge.
You never know what you’ll see, like this Egret.
A special egret. Why special? It has friends.
An egret and a blue heron together?

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FISHING FAILURE = TRY AGAIN

What makes for a fishing failure?
Bad weather, wrong bait, no bites.
If that happens too many times, what do you do?
You want some salmon, you live in Oregon, it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.
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FAILING FUN = TRY AGAIN

No one sets a course for failing fun.
But who’s kidding who.
Those who never fail haven’t tried hard enough.
But if you keep track of such things, failing fun happens every day.
Is it really fun, though?
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FAILED BLOG DIFFERENT THAN A FAILED MOVIE

BoomerPdx is a failed blog. (Does that make me a failed blogger? Uh oh)
After a Portland run to the art museum I came home and reviewed the evening.
You know what they say about writers?
We get to live things twice: Once in real life, once on the page.
Except I got sidetracked on Facebook.
How does that happen?
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FAILED MOVIES FIND FACEBOOK LIFE

How many times on a Facebook scroll do you find posts on failed movies, usually movies I haven’t seen to know if they failed, or how they failed, with a caption like: “Ignored and pulled from screens just after release has aged like fine wine.”
Or, “while considered a failure on it’s first release it has proven to be ahead of it’s time and grown into a cult classic.”
I’m happy to see people are watching old movies from the 80’s and 90’s, the 1980’s and 1990’s, not 1880’s and 1890’s, and finding renewed value in the work from that era.
I’m not watching them to get in on the buzz and post a review, but I will recommend Harold and Maude from 1971:

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FOODIE vs eFOOD. WHAT TO EXPECT?

Foodie For Thought. You smelled what The ‘foodie’ Rock was cookin’? It was a metaphor, medium rare, foodie. In real life you’ve smelled food before it hits the table. You’ve sat in Portland restaurants watching plates fly by trailing a scent stronger than a pheromone cat collar. The next one’s got to be yours. Or […]

AMERICAN CTE: FOOTBALL AND DRIVING

The last thing good baby boomer helicopter parents wanted was their precious getting his brain rattled loose. But they have friends, friends with dads who coach youth football. “I hear your boy’s a good kicker. He want to play some ball?” And he’s on the team, from sixth grade kicker to pulling guard on a […]

BABY BOOMER FOOT ISSUES SOLVED

Do you have Baby Boomer Foot Issues? Yesterday I jammed my pained tootsie into about twenty shoes. The pain comes with plantar fasciitis, which is supposed to be a heel thing, but got my middle toe instead. I blame a famous shoe brand for bending my foot the wrong direction, then myself for thinking the […]

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EXPERIENCE AUTHORITY FIRST HAND

The truth is powerful after you experience authority. From your private life to public life, things change. You can’t always express that unique feeling you need to share. If you talk your talk and nobody listens? If you talk your talk and the wrong people listen? If you’re afraid to talk your talk? That one […]

LOVE AFFAIRS OR LEARNING AFFAIRS

Do past love affairs affect the future? What happens between two people ought to be like Las Vegas: what happens there stays there. Except it never happens that way between two people, three or four people, or a whole team of people. No judgements, just call it a social agreement between adults who know how […]

WHY WHY IS THE WRONG WORD

Ask Why Then Brace Yourself For A Hit You Didn’t Want. It’s The Wrong Word. No one asks the guy who accidentally whacks a finger with his hammer why he did it. No one asks the cook why they cut themselves. And no one asks the athlete why they lost. Ask why and you won’t […]

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MEXICO TRAVEL: PUERTO VALLARTA PERFECTION, pt3

    The top down view from the seventh floor in Old Vallarta, or Viejo Vallarta, to the square.   Is it Frida Kahlo’s turquoise house? It’s the right color.   If it part of the Kahlo catalogue, she’s got octopus on her self portrait.   But it’s not Frida. Not enough eyebrow.  

PORTLAND MOVEABLE FEAST: COMMUNITY

    “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” Would Hemingway say the same about a Portland moveable feast? He would if he booked Eastburn for dinner. Try […]

KEN KESEY, SOMETIMES A GREAT OREGON IN KERNVILLE

Kernville house for Ken Kesey’s Sometimes A Great Notion In some parts of America I balk at driving the back roads. I drive on, but carefully. Those roads show more about a shared history if you look hard enough. The Siletz Highway, OR 229 headed east off of 101 north of Depoe Bay, is one […]

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