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Our Precious Garden
Editorial
Now & Then
Okay, your beloved editor is here alone, the
deadline approaches, and we have so much to say O '
and so little time and so little space. Sally’s book is
at the printer, and well, we’ll let you know when you
can pick up your copy. If you ordered one and don’t
get your copy by Thanksgiving, let us know,
otherwise we are doing our best. If you need to
order one send $20 to the Left Coast Group, Box
1222, Cannon Beach, OR 97110.
We are already thinking about our next issue,
which will be our ‘election special’. This year there
are 14 initiatives on the Oregon Ballot, and a strong
group of candidates, nationally and locally. One of
the most exciting races will be for Mayor of Astoria,
where veteran publisher Michael McCusker is
running. We have ballot measures banning clearcuts
and legalizing pot for medical purposes. Cool, huh?
Mo, stuff,
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The Bear Deluxe Magazine is having it s Edward
Abbey Short Fiction contest. You can send your
efforts of 4,500 words or less to Bear Deluxe, Box
10342, Portland, OR 97296, along with the $8
reading fee.. All entries must be typed, double
spaced and previously unpublished. The winner gets
$500 and along with the honorable mentions will be
published in Bear Deluxe. Don’t forget your name,
address and phone number, plus a word count on the
first page.
Uncle Mike fans will be delighted to know that they
can read new Letters to Uncle Mike every Monday at
www.oregonlive.com (the Oregonian web site).
Traveling through our precious garden,
free o f ideas chipped in stone.
We are an ancient spirit,
our love blossoming free of judgments.
In this ecstatic moment,
our life is found a part of everything.
Our future is nothing,
our moment her is complete.
As children we are inspired by the garden,
and knowing that it is boundless.
Seeing all things again and again,
for the very first time.
AH that we do and say,
carries our wisdom and is reflected into the garden.
Trusting our intuition,
we share with joy all that we do.
Striving for nothing,
we walk through the garden’s path without a clue,
existing here in peace,
without fears or expectations.
Here life exists only in the present,
the future lays outside.
Receptive to our thoughts and feelings,
we caress the garden.
In this garden we see that we are one,
tenderly letting go of the past.
We leave this garden,
and are in the world as in the garden.
Antonio Domini go Valdez III 6/29/98
Ideas for this poem came from Kaba-Zinn, Jon,
“Full Catastrophe Living”, Delta, New York
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Transient Stronghold ! ! !
Well, here we go again. Our good o f readers
might remember when we started the Edge our
second issue featured a photograph of a driftwood
structure at Indian Beach, our headline read,
“Commit random acts of kindness and senseless
beauty”. We have always had a fondness for the
sculptures found each summer on the various
beaches hereabouts. Whether they be the shelters at
Indian, beach or the North end, or the stacked rocks
at Silver Point. They are whimsical efforts, sort of
like our famous sandcastles. So iftiagine our
confusion when a local came in the bookstore with a
photograph of one such structure, and a story about
the city sending a front-loader, a dump truck, and a
crew of three with chain saws and chokers, to tear
this ‘beach sculpture’ down and haul it off to the
burn pile. We have seen people tear these things
down for beach fires, and we have even seen three
idiots throwing rocks at the beautiful Silver Point
works, as though they were at some Carnival. We
were disappointed, but you have a right to be stupid,
so we didn’t complain. On the other hand when our
city employees and tax dollars are used for such
purposes we are forced to ask “What the hell?” Our
informant filed a formal complaint, and questioned
the jurisdiction of the City of Cannon Beach in
dismantling a structure on land that is under the
control of the State Parks Department. No written
complaints could be produced, though he was told
that a local homeowner suggested that this structure
might be a f i r e hazard. He was also told that the
police had stated that it could become a ‘potential
transient stronghold’ and that there was trash in the
area, and it was a clear and present danger to our
little village.
We called the parties involved, and after getting
their stories straight, and caught up on their paper
work, the official word was “Fire Hazard”. It seems
the structure was too close to some beach grass, and
‘Lord Knows’ considering the tinder dry conditions
here on the Oregon Coast in June, where it never
rains, well, ‘raging inferno’ comes to mind. As far
as jurisdiction goes, the city did in fact get a permit
from State Parks, of course it was issued after the
fact, but what’s a few details among bureaucrats?
Just a small case of mis-communication with the
public works dept., mis communication, that’s all.
Everyone denied the ‘potential transient stronghold’
line.
But what really bothers some locals, you beloved
editor included, is the why. Did the fire dept.
volunteers, ( some surfers or ex-surfers, who had
built things like this for years to keep out of the wind
and change into and out of wet suits without
exposing themselves indecently) really fear that fire
was a possibility? Did the police really fear an influx
of homeless people moving onto the beach? Was it
the fear of litter? Was it cause ‘the wrong element’
was having fun in the ‘wrong place’? Was it a parent
disciplining his child by tearing down her playhouse?
Was it truly Pyrophobia? Maybe we’ll never know,
but we would advise those who plan to stack
driftwood on the beach, to check with the City first,
because with that much fear they just might call in an
air strike next time.
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