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'• «# ■•- » • . 4 l ’* i » V • ‘•»tue • • •> -ai » I’- - r * r * J to f S l l 'k P U i The «tk '• v w karma u shekel than a parr of eels in a ’ tick«' J ’ ns* ’his month Forwnaielv i» s your * e j# * Uv* s L s ’ rut’ vou Remembei the’ u r d l« ir < ano<ar«'e indomitable self rtth * . wre-ss ard obnoxious egotism that make up y w n og tout ■’itarm' t ’os’ tto m o if boubtoh and rerrember it's a long gto.r D on'’ uv pushmg any ropes Find comfortable '•«ve r 11 stone to 'he closed poswo:. and io n ” lea-e tü you remember vho vou are a I »1 * 1 IN I You should hsvi r 'I# Irek ?enr iiabbuin lapeb and jhiiefcin*; 3o out and ptov ’ You v* been good. tos vo'u v o rk , A-d deserve ? dav a» the track It v .u ld be of ideas to lake your jta rto r w n you With luck the smoldering d & co n tnt v ill be "ooled before I# or s ir to? to fo „j.jr ie your p nkin head for mansr: i v>- w l too much for ?ranrd Take no# v h r h ?id* vow bread is fcuttrred cn and vh o does yew hflkuc mw m o u to >* j ’ -... ’ —j'T> -lu "*» À a g #*.» j v h c -ïp u < H m j . v i t h m e r e h u a w«i »( .•’U ’Z fll Ask vourreli tf Toa' -re h r * i f .r e ir#ii m o m r«di cto v »Vf« C iV U ^ UV»r SJiùt f . lu x l > i tu v .# T ttr jo h X l i I J ) X R l U h N ’ 'he month " k iige around in ba th r he eating Eon-bo ns J i f f we m i f but M>u hav» to go pick 'tom up Put c u rs e d into t e v corotructs ar«; , # v proup? 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in Vhich W l Sto uld L'y not to behave like a puppv En»oy yourself if only to ke*p from Staking someone else .mserable m o u m oui L U ? : You are one lucky rascal Venus (p la » ’ o f cosnuc kissv kissv) contmues to cuddle «L month You couldn't be more ehaimusj maf netx and rust basically cuter than a sperkled pup if vou tried ■and ve both k r o v vou v o n t) For vha’ i»'s vo rth everyone thinks you're ’he best thing since the mvennon ol lig h t-a id phoiey humility aside. vou ie honer than a rvo dollar pistol Be sure yotar heart u good, ’hen seat tl# old carpe diem as ’hev JJV It vou vasfe tune fondant re v rv ? you could mis? having vow earlobe leallv nibbled bv fa * X O U X R H IS AS if VOU lieA«i*d encouragement 'to” v c ’iid lo v e il »hi? month to bronden vow to run re If n o th in else n evokes chaos ’t o only order vou're ever satisfied v r h Pair* to differen' drimmers b»x» stick v ith vow paitnri Tins shouldn’ t be hard Who» rrugh’ to hard is p m r< ’to t w of you apar? king enough to get fed ard valued While you re jnoodlirn. make awe vou're not using vow love as a security blanket jn e stoo d *, t use love ter ar.v’hiru' The tuu'rerse doesn ’ like to t V l k l U '; Happv birthdav. nitpickers aid v o rrv freaks yo u 're on a roll Define a ?oad, ktok o il a nev obsession, buv a co vbov hat if ’he stars aren't kidding arourd, ard the- 're not. you le in tl# harvest mode good Ume to check out y w cashflov m r h in r r y - ’ttneups v * much more fun ’io n overhauls--but don't get bowd up in pictures of dead presdentr You mav ired to explain tins to someone vh o vouid love you much more if vou Lad money Take everything that's offered and give everything you have TT*at v a y the books balance the ms* Ives F l h l l h : A good month foi rish people Work ( t o t porton of hie v?w ignore in tavor uf voting brooding poetry) goes v e il- - » v e il in far», t o ’ rornanc- could blossom bv t o v » » r coolei of life HopHuIiv tins v ill to enough to distrac’ you from making financial decisions ’to» coud ma*r t o ¿fc.L bailuu» seem like a la vn p ary stay inside le» no one take advantage o! vow cosmic vish w a sh n e ss ard consider t o dance of action’ reaction Y ou s to u d also avod ducks Don'* «ok wjj a To do q re d t and im p o r ta n t ta s k s , = ¡ 4 = - ---------------- nbv i 5 the beach tquatlron* o l create lin t» o l bole» and pile» o l »and. w hich ca»l dark »hadow» again»! the brightening light from the ea»t I forget to face the tea. forget to tla n t m> weapon »eaward I actng the tea. according to In to « gun*, ha» to do with angling th r gun in the tame d irection a» the clam angle» and th e rrh » avoiding breaking the «hell, flet there m at he a more profound meaning at well, for if there i* anything I hate learned in life it it alw ayt to keep to u r face toward the danger "Sever lu m your hack on the t u r f ' i t a h a t« canon of body tu rfin g and tide pool observing alike, and there are a good many other danger» that are better faced directly, let! the big wave come and harvett you I he real trouble w ith Oregon 1» that ttranger» keep coming from every point of the compat«. and thote who live here are unprepared to k ill them before they reproduce Nature abhor» not jtttt a vacuum hut a lto an unpopulated place or u n filled niche N or can I quarrel w ith that for not only were the C hinook and the fld»«w»M*• and my editor newcomer», hut my father ai well, w ithout whote wettenng I would probably he a natrve of C incinnati Vk e are all immigrant» here, or the d e u e n d a n tt of immigrant», e icept the clam t I uted to com plain about the con*tant im m igration U e tk e g o m a n i are among the gre a le ti lover» o f empty »pace Having ourvelve» arrived to fill the local empline»» we in»tantly turn and demand that no one el»e be allowed entrance to I den the la o of the Oregonian it this that nowhere elec on earth are there *0 frw people occupying *0 much »pace in tuch a hurry to declare that »pace alreadt loo fu ll of people Irv e tplatnm g that lu»t fo r Militude to. for ecample. k tta n t I uted to try. in South Korea and tu ch place», and receive o n li p u rrle d »tare» for my trouble* fh e t wondered wh» anyone w ould want to live in tuch an empty, and therefore obvioutlv in h o tp ita b le . place lh a t leave« me on the edge of a continent aero»» w hich my ancestors have been w ettenng fo r »everal generation*, facing the tea and gunning down razor clam» My face ma» he to the ocean, hut my hack 1» to the real danger to M other Oregon those incom ing wave» of o u ila n d e rt who come here pnm ed to build h u tin e tte t. run for office and to edit new »paper» dedicated to protecting Oregon and it» citizen» from all the danger» Planet Earth provide». I tcept ourtelvec Meanwhile, on the da rklin g beach, it turn« out that I can «pot clam dimple» w ith the hett of them Im o t ma» he a h o a lvr or tw o ahead and the beach a» fu ll of people a» a hermit"» nightmare of a Vkashington * I »ay Sale, but we both teem likely to catch our fu ll 24-clam lim it, a» the sky turn» from red Io crimson, orange and gold, and 1» an enriched blue out over the tea Demography is o u r real problem W e may argue all we want about damm ing the Grande Hnndc saving the Detchute«. or paving paradite to put in a parking lot. hut. a» long a» the people keep pouring in. the hmtphere mu»t biodegrade Ihe demography of clam» and men alike »eeni« profoundly inevitable, a» we get o u r lim it of little clam* at I ittle Beach N or may one return »mall clam» to the »and. fo r once moved they cannot live M e are told that the future of da m dom is in our hand», and m u tt not he ahu»ed. w hich 1» at once true, and a lie Ihe great clam bed in the »ea w ill replenith the despoiled clam bed» near the land if it 1» clam m ily pcmible, but winter» and their raging ttorm» w ill do far more damage to tho»e »and» bed» than we mere m o rta l, can ever do I a»l w inter lore out the beach Io bedrock and »cooped »and by the ton »eaward, decimating the in tertidal bed», and probably the off»hore one» a» well. I count on newcomer» to Oregon to battle to »a»e the beautiful country \» for m t. I w ill prohahl, continue to rem ind myself of fight» I fought in younger day», and victories won or lost lh a t is the Oregon way. I think Ihe first generation com et in, fu ll of retolvc to »ave, preserve and modify, w hile the native», a bit loo comfortable, »imply enjoy the place Searching for my 2«th and final razor clam. I contemplate the fact that, in all my years of w riting. I have ne»er dealt w ith an editor who was bom here l'»e w ritten for editor» from hack I a»t and down South, and been edited by persons from O hio and I ngland and such places, who seem to me to lack an ra r for the Oregon sound I am represented in the le g isla tu re by a woman from New York, on the (. tty Council by a woman from Montana, and in the count» h» a man who ju»t barely am ved from all over America I suspect lhat w ill continue Oregon offsprings either flee the blackberry swamp, or. like me. »las and learn Io enjoy the land, hut newcomer» are the one» who change and mould the place, in an image of what they th in k Oregon 1». or ought to be I conclude that the ecological warrior» are right in every respect but one Ibey do not know perhaps they cannot know that the true I ao of Oregon 1» merely to be here now l o enjoy and learn the place, and let the future come over the mountain« a» it always ha», wave after wave Ihe Oregon that can be saved 1» not the true Oregon, as a I aoisl would put it I thank them for their efforts, and go on living I don’t think they » ill save my Oregon from inundation, nor do I believe that Oregon w ill be much if any better, for clam or man. than New lerscs lm» personal metaphor for Desolation Row )once the human beings have fille d it up. as they assuredly w ill All places fill, in time, for humans and razor clams alike hase reproductive resources equal to their task, and the task of every creature, realized or not. it to fill the ecological niche lo the brim m ing point All this i t terribly cynical, and make» me hungry, vo we »lop in Seaside for breakfast Seaside, lhat Coney Itla n d of the N o rth Coast, i t what all Oregon w ill e»rntuallv look like I hen hack lo Amo»’ .« b in to stand in unaccustomed sun. cleaning clams Cleaning clams is not half to much fun as digging them, but is no le t* philosophical, and in the evening we w ill eat them, which is at least as much fun at cither I hen the "lao o f clam and clam digger w ill merge, and we w ill go -w 4»î .« • - S : - v -» %r~ .’ ’■••»H to d r h à j r f l »nu t»ip »-■ . v T to u rk e L •*• l î » le 6 L, - ‘ ‘ • a - the .-And c i» ! w ’ u t o r r z , . t i re n r» the o x v to # ’ J û « # . .# v h o J k . î t o v «jV * MOU lu c k H lu p a ’* x j ‘ ... t o :» • - !«■ !’ ".*?Ul»r Ui '»•'IJ M -u . ; u u # ' ■! vto »’ f l û l i» - '’tk f! . *> ’ •h»* • ’i ï * .T Û Î H * T tt. » '. j ll u V u t l d V f. »A d in V » JJ# U. m } uj f v e » / r j « r» ..t;, t i ! 7 # i» w to ü n e » . . i k l ’t o .«»•*> - ‘ »C l 4 XiOT -:r-? . n w tw o th in g s o re n p fp s s o rtj: a plan and not q u ite enough tim e . forward together into the fu tu re flnon N IH A ltM BAY V ID fO In Manxanita. 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