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FROM CENTRAL OREGON SMOKE TO PORTLAND AIR

August 8, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

To anyone who has gone over the mountain from the valley to Central Oregon, this is the last thing you ever want to see. It’s forest fire smoke, brush fire smoke, doing its scorched earth best to show the power of fire. Not fire-power, the sort of thing you can start and end, but Mother […]

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HAPPINESS PURSUIT FOR THE SLOW

January 20, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Happiness pursuit is a good idea. It covers a lot of ground, this happy idea. If you do no harm in pursuit, then you’re doing it right. ‘First do no harm,’ is more than a suggestion. Happiness and harm are not synonyms.

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LIFE LESSONS: FIRST DO NO HARM

December 6, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Life lessons start early and never stop. But, and this is a tough one, people do look away. “But Blogger D, aren’t older people a repository of life lessons?” Not always, but who am I to judge? If you need to ask, this might not be the place for you.

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