{"id":6643,"date":"2020-12-30T06:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6643"},"modified":"2020-12-30T06:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:16:06","slug":"beaverwood-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/beaverwood-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaverwood for Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6643\" data-postid=\"6643\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6643 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>It was Christmas Day and I was on my way to visit my mother and step dad for a drive-by celebration when it struck me that I had some time to kill before my scheduled arrival. I stopped at Clackamette Park in Oregon City to spend a half hour. There, I admired the rushing brown rivers and leafless black cottonwoods. My mind and heart were heavy with the recent loss of my step mom and I speculated on what the future would bring to me and my father. I knew one thing for sure, I&#8217;d be spending a lot of time in Portland with my father in the coming days and weeks and I wouldn&#8217;t enjoy my daily interaction with the ocean, which is so critical to my spiritual and creative well being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High water from heavy rain had deposited all manner of driftwood on the banks of the park and being the driftwood aficionado that I am, I had to inspect the various specimens flowing down the Willamette River Watershed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, I have amassed perhaps the greatest collection of beaverwood in the world and never fail to hunt for choice cuts whenever I prowl Oregon&#8217;s beaches, rivers and streams. There is nothing like finding a great piece! That pretty much passes for my recreational life at the Oregon Coast. I&#8217;ll take it. It&#8217;s entirely free, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said, it was Christmas Day and I was meandering through the driftwood when I saw it. A glorious choice cut and all for my taking! I picked it up and beheld the splendor. What a gift from the Oregon gods to alleviate my angst. I kept walking and kept finding more choice cuts&#8230;&#8230;I was like, well, a kid on Christmas morning.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Christmas Day and I was on my way to visit my mother and step dad for a drive-by celebration when it struck me that I had some time to kill before my scheduled arrival. I stopped at Clackamette Park in Oregon City to spend a half hour. There, I admired the rushing brown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}