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Oregon Again, the Pretty Woman Behind Every Waterfall, Photographic Verisimilitude, and Animated Photographs

One of the small houses of Neskowin, the delightful tiny village along the central coast. © Jim Owens

This writing finds me back in northern Utah at what appears to be the end of that difficult part of Summer when monsoonal rains kick down soaring temperatures. This breaking point is invariably well received, at least by me. In Southern Nevada things are still boiling with some of the hottest weather they have had […]

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It Is What It Is

An early March art installation in the Phoenix Botanical Gardens

  Curious days indeed. Oh to live in interesting times. It’s been a while since my last missive. I find myself more than a bit paralyzed by distraction and my productivity has taken a dive. I’ve rejoined Facebook, for a while now. And then there is the news. My focus has been shifted against my […]

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ugh, looking back, and thoughts on Colorado

My favorite restaurant in Phoenix showed up in Boulder. © Jim Owens

I have forgotten who said it, I think it was Sartre. That the value of something is best understood only through the loss of it. It brings to mind the song “San Diego Serenade” by Tom Waits and covered by the late Nanci Griffith, Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” and “These are Days” by 10,000 […]

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a guide to forgetting the cubs: oregon

Provisions already depleted on arrival © Jim Owens

For a Cubs fan the very worst type of Summer involves bullpen issues. When severe, it is simply too painful to watch games literally tossed away at the last possible moment that could easily have been won. Compound this with almost uniform under-performance by the big-time position players that the baseball-bloggers needed so so bad. […]

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random stuff: branding books, the boss, baseball, botero and botanicals

An exterior display of a large Botero sculpture at the Phoenix Botanical Gardens. © Jim Owens

I wasn’t in Southern Nevada at all in February, so February weather was apparently moved into all of March. Wet, cloudy, cool and windy intermixed with the occasional sunny and almost warm days that are more typical of March down here. Something to do with that whole el nino and la nina thing I guess. […]