by CC Stories | Dec 31, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M We are all of us water beings, women especially. And as such, like the whales or the dolphins or especially like the salmon, we are called to make our journeys. Where do our journeys begin? With our own lives? With our parents’ lives? With our parents’...
by CC Stories | Dec 30, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M I ponder where they first came from, these Salmon people swimming in the well of knowledge. I have seen them painted in threes–there are always three, aren’t there–not so different, of course, than the Three Graces of the Greeks who still inspire us. And...
by CC Stories | Dec 29, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M Just when I thought Salmon were cooked…that is committed to a slow languorous decline, the story twists and turns and takes a new direction. Along the Fraser River in British Columbia, inexplicable numbers of wild sockeye salmon are returning home to spawn....
by CC Stories | Dec 28, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M Humans take innumerable tests to determine strengths and weaknesses. They learn that they are leaders or that they are introverted or that they are organizers or that they are detail-oriented or that they are wildly creative artists, as well as all the...
by CC Stories | Dec 27, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
By Beverly Benner Ogle Let me tell you of a Journey About to begin from the ocean where Salmon swim around Restlessly they wait to begin A trek back to their Native Spawning Ground Their Journey has many dangers as Salmon swim up Creek, River and Stream Struggling the...
by CC Stories | Dec 26, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M “The idea that we live in something called “the environment” is utterly preposterous . . . The world that environs us, that is around us, is also within us. We are made of it; we eat, drink, and breathe it; it is bone of our bone and flesh of our...
