Nestucca Spit Press Meditations – Page 6 – A Blog by Matt Love

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February 7, 2024

American Arrogance

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February 5, 2024

Friday Coffee Shop Musings

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February 2, 2024

Homeless Woman Rides a Barbie Bike Handless!

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January 31, 2024

The Severed Head

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January 29, 2024

The Blue Tarp Flag of the Homeless

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January 24, 2024

Some Thoughts on Football

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January 22, 2024

Ice Storm Ruminations

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January 17, 2024

Marvin

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January 15, 2024

Walking Elmer Meditations

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January 10, 2024

Eagles, Beavers, a Snowy Egret

elmersteak

January 8, 2024

Doing a Favor for My Dog

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January 5, 2024

What Went Right for Me in 2023

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January 5, 2024

What Didn’t Go Right for Me in 2023

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January 3, 2024

Swept Away (The Zine)

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December 30, 2023

Meet Elmer!

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December 27, 2023

Hustling My Stories

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December 25, 2023

Homeless in the Dunes

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December 22, 2023

Swept Away

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December 20, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: Holiday Party Prepping

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December 18, 2023

Christmas Rakes for the Homeless

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December 13, 2023

A Jim Beam Laundromat Christmas Memory (Part 2)

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December 11, 2023

A Jim Beam Laundromat Christmas Memory (Part 1)

December 6, 2023

Overcast Meditations

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December 4, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: Sunday Football

Bottle Coversmaller

December 1, 2023

A Man’s Need for Counseling

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November 29, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: Elk Spaghetti

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November 27, 2023

Annette

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November 26, 2023

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November 22, 2023

Sunday Fort Building

November 20, 2023

Tribute to Bruce, Cindy, Ron and the Nesika Beach RV Park

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November 18, 2023

Candy Corn Homeless Man

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November 16, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: First Aid

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November 14, 2023

Some Thoughts on Philosophy

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November 10, 2023

The Stethoscope Man

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November 8, 2023

Oregon Tavern Age: Carrot Curry Soup

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November 6, 2023

Guinness Meditations

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November 1, 2023

Jamie Needs a Flute!

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October 30, 2023

Elizabeth

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October 25, 2023

Rainy Day Ruminations

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October 23, 2023

The Joy of Reedsport

NEVER STOP PRE

The Enduring Inspiration of America's Greatest Sports Legend

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"Never stop Pre. When he's no longer relevant in Oregon, Oregon is dead."

On May 31, 1975, Coos Bay, Oregon native Steve Prefontaine died in an automobile accident. At the time of his death, he held 14 American records in distance running.

Pre was 24 years old and already a legend in Oregon and the world of track of field.

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The Old Crow

Book Club

In December of 2020, author Matt Love moved to Portland to care for his elderly father.

Returning to the Rose City jolted Love after 23 years residing on the Oregon Coast. In the Sellwood neighborhood where he lived, Love met a homeless man named Mark. They formed a friendship over literature and the unforeseen magical discoveries in street libraries. They created The Old Crow Book Club, and yes, sometimes that involved drinking Old Crow on a sidewalk.

The club also included several other Sellwood homeless men and women cut from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row cloth.

In due course, Love learned the members' stories of homelessness and how they survived. He wondered what happened to his beloved state of Oregon and attempted to help Mark get off the streets only to run up against the seemingly futile policies to address the crisis.

Along the way, he had the best conversations about books in his life and wrote The Old Crow Book Club, where he recounts his interactions with the homeless people in his neighborhood and offers some suggestions how to alleviate what he considers the greatest man-made American humanitarian disaster of his adult life.

The Old Crow Book Club is available for purchase here and select independent bookstores in Oregon.

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Choice Cuts

of Oregon Fiction

Choice Cuts of Oregon Fiction by Matt Love contains 20 stories, all set in Oregon. The cast of characters includes a depressed Santa Claus, Steve Prefontaine, Jack Ramsay's fast break offense, socialist squirrels, a clearcut, a dead deer, a junior high football team, a high school tennis player, a dissipated teacher, a man who evolves into a beaver, a homeless vet, a jilted preacher, a double date to a prom, rural degenerates, a wily caterer, and much more.

The publication of the collection culminates a quarter century of the author's writing about Oregon and rambling around the state.

Choice Cuts is available for purchase here, through Amazon, or select independent bookstores in Oregon.

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The Savage

of State Street

Nestucca Spit Press is proud to present The Savage of State Street: The Thieving and Literary Lives of Smoky Epley. He is the greatest unheralded writer in Oregon history and also one of its more mediocre, colorful and persistent thieves.

In 1973, Oregon State University Press published Men in Exile: An Anthology of Creative Writing by Inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary. Twenty-two of Smoky Epley's pieces appeared in the book.

Smoky spent most of his adult life in state and federal prisons for robbery. In 2008, during one of his brief stints of freedom, Smoky became friends with Matt Love, an Oregon author and publisher. They met after Love discovered Men in Exile and wrote a newspaper column about the landmark book. Smoky read the column and reached out.

He returned to prison in 2009 after forging a check. Upon his release in 2011, Love encouraged Smoky to write a memoir. He completed half of Auto before dying in February of 2013.

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Sonny the husky discovers a homeless encampment destroying a creek in a Portland city park. She alerts her owner and a park ranger and inspires a community clean-up of the damaged riparian area. Neighborhood citizens and residents of the encampment join Sonny to restore a tiny part of a watershed and later celebrate their collaboration.

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