by CC Stories | Dec 25, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M In a lunch room, I am mesmerized by the cream cheese bagel before me. It might help my story if this bagel contained lox with the cream cheese, but it is only cream cheese–I am a vegetarian. Still, for the sake of my story and this post, imagine the lox...
by CC Stories | Dec 20, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M We are all children of the same Mother–our flesh is hers; it returns to her–and sometimes she reminds us. In the sobering events of the last days, we have watched images of her power. As the tsunami burst across the northern coastlands of Japan, we saw her...
by CC Stories | Dec 19, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M In a discussion of religion, my friend says, “We have the teachings of Buddha and Christ and Mohammad. And we have those who say they follow these great teachings. What I want to know is, do they really?” “No,” he suddenly, forcefully answers his own...
by CC Stories | Dec 16, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M. The New York Times today reports that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan has changed time. Essentially, the quake altered the weight distributed around the axis of the Earth’s spin, altering the Earth wobble and thereby shortening a day by 1.8 millionths...
by CC Stories | Dec 10, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M. Perception is a funny thing. Study people walking past you and you see, well, people. But REALLY? Study birds flying by at lightning speeds in the gathering energies of spring and you see, well, birds. But REALLY? Are we what we see think we see? Anatomy...
by CC Stories | Dec 9, 2017 | Salmon Journeys
by Mary M. “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into...