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GRAB BAG book shelf • glimpse • wildlife • pop culture • words • q&a • food • fun How to become an obsessive beach visitor By MATT LOVE First, you must decide that visiting the beach with your old husky is the most important thing in the world. Nothing else matters. Naturally, this ob- session will mean sacrifices in your personal life, name- ly not having a girlfriend or anything resembling a normal schedule. So what? Interacting with beach and the ocean is everything to you. Bringing along a dog only enhances the experi- ence. Second, bad weather never deters your ob- session. Rain, sleet, snow, wind, ice, storms — it doesn’t matter. Never check the forecast. You go whenever the urge hits. Besides, all the great moments visiting the beach typically occur when the elements seem uncongenial for a visit. There is special magic near the ocean when wildness reigns. Great no- tions manifest during those times. You might find the meaning of life on a walk fighting through a squall. Or you might completely empty your mind for the first time in years. Third, find a part-time job that provides the ulti- mate flexibility you need NW word nerd By RYAN HUME Nehalem noun 1. a small city in northern Tillamook County on U.S. Highway 101. Incorporated in 1889, the city sits on the Nehalem River at Nehalem Bay. When last checked COLUMBIA BAR BFK By RYAN HUME Photo by Matt Love To become an obsessive beach visitor, you must decide that visiting the beach with your old husky is the most important thing in the world. to visit the beach anytime you desire. That’s the key; when the obsession strikes, you heed the call, you go. Of course, hav- ing a part-time job means you won’t be earn- ing a whole lot of money. Who cares? Your re- lentless visiting the beach pre- cludes the time to shop for the gadgets and baubles you don’t need in the first place. Last, never bring an agenda (in your mind or on a phone) with you when visiting the beach. The ocean is there to annihilate them if you do. You can’t truly be called an obsessive unless there is no rational reason to visit, like collecting limpets or build- ing driftwood forts. Finding and doing those things on a lark are great, rewarding. But for the true ob- sessive, they’re never the goal. There is never a goal. You just have no other choice but to hit the beach. It’s like gravity; you during the 2010 census, the population was 271 2. tribe: also known as the Tillamook, a native people and their language from the Salish linguistic group living on the North Coast 3. Nehalem Highway: Oregon State Routes 202 and 47 respectively which run through the Nehalem River Valley from Astoria to Mist Origin Salish. Translates roughly to “place where people live,” utilizing the common Salish prefix, ne-, meaning “place.” ‘There is special magic near the ocean when wildness reigns.’ “Nehalem is an incorporated town. As to size it is not large, but a citizenship animated with greater grit, determination and progressiveness of the practical, ‘do- it-now’ kind, than the Nehalem people, it would indeed be hard to find. They have an unbounded faith in the future greatness of their own community, and that faith they transfuse to all who come in contact with them.” — L. A. Fernsworth, “Tillamook is land bountifully endowed by generous nature,” The Sunday Oregonian, Sept. 24, 1911, Section 2, P. 8 are compelled. Don’t fight it, neglect it, or even try to understand it. Consider the answer in the obsession lies within the immortal words of The Who, “I can’t explain/ I think it’s love.” Matt Love is the author/ editor of 12 books about Oregon, including Of Walk- ing In Rain, his account of one of the rainiest winters in Oregon history. They are available at coastal book- stores and through www. nestuccaspitpress.com A warm drink can be just the thing to combat the bone-chilling temperatures of January. 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