I’ve got a fire going in the new fire pit I built. So long burn barrel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pit is a new addition to a back yard I have totally overhauled since moving into the house last May. It really feels like my home in a way I never felt about the Sellwood house in Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a weekday afternoon. Classic rock playing on the locally-owned radio station with all their cornball jingles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elmer is snoozed out in the grass after two long beach romps in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later I’m whipping up a scallop pasta dish with scallops from Coos Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve started reading Shakespeare by the fire pit. There is always something new in reading the plays and sonnets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hear the ice cream truck in the neighborhood. It’s call song is \u201cDixie.\u201d Yeah, I live in a neighborhood whose ice cream truck plays the anthem of the Confederacy while driven by a Latino man. How do you work that into a novel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m polishing two of my manuscripts at the moment: the poetry volume and collection of essays about homelessness. Both are going to be thick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The garden is doing great. I ate my first peas not too long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the joys of this new house is getting my old art and memorabilia out of plastic totes and in sight again. I miss some of my old art, given away in panic a decade ago. I sure would love my Henk Pender and Rick Bartow pieces back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m reading four books at the moment: a history of Marxism in America, a guide to geology in Oregon, Exodus<\/em> by Leon Uris, and a history of the Baltic Crusades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t really think about American current political events. I want a deeper plunge into vulgarity, incompetence and graft. We have a lot farther to go to destroy the Constitution and I want it destroyed. I am in favor of the PNW becoming its own country once there is a provision for states to leave the Union. Lincoln said states can’t leave. We need legal language so they can. I have very little allegiance to the United States of America. I have a lot for my region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve got a fire going in the new fire pit I built. So long burn barrel! The pit is a new addition to a back yard I have totally overhauled since moving into the house last May. It really feels like my home in a way I never felt about the Sellwood house in Portland. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coos-bay","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\/9868","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=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9871,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions\/9871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}