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Mary Strachan Scriver

Gotta Be Sometime

One always has to happen sometime — the moment of truth when you know death here is and anything could happen.. I fell at 2 am on two…

Jan 11, 2022

Jan 11, 2022

CHANGE

To have the climate change, democracy endangered, a whole cultural way of thinking change, and pandemic sweep the world — well, it’s too…

Jan 7, 2022

Jan 7, 2022

CHILLED, BABY.

It wasn’t until I was trying to explain why I wasn’t giving her proper understanding with my predicament with sciatica and why I refused…

Jan 5, 2022

Jan 5, 2022

Very bad ear infection last winter.

Recurrence on 1/21 Respiratory. Caught at the clinic when I went for my booster. Recovered on my own.

Jan 2, 2022

Jan 2, 2022

WORK OVER TIME

FIRST, there is the work you need to have done in the past to prepare for now as best can be figured out looking back.

Jan 1, 2022

Jan 1, 2022

A CLEAN SLATE

I have no idea how many days I’ve survived in spite of sciatic, near-paralysis, profound cold, but it has been work. More about this later…

Jan 1, 2022

Jan 1, 2022

WORKING ON THIS. . .

“The English “work” has an Indo-European stem werg-, via Greek ergon, meaning deed or action without punitive connotations; and Latin…

Jan 1, 2022

Jan 1, 2022

WORK

Since I was a little kid, I’ve wondered what “work” was. My dad was on the road all week as a representative for Pacific Supply Wholesale…

Dec 31, 2021

Dec 31, 2021

A NEXUS FOR SURVIVAL

Sex/love interacts with terrain/travel. The first is often used as a marker for success which is how it became entangled with profit. The…

Dec 30, 2021

Dec 30, 2021

WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT

Until 1961 I was a thoughtful, funny, “poochie” (my mother’s word — she meant “pouchie”. She disapproved of my figure.) sort of…

Dec 29, 2021

Dec 29, 2021

Mary Strachan Scriver

Mary Strachan Scriver

Born in Portland when all was calm just before WWII. Educated formally at NU and U of Chicago Div School. Clergy for ten years. Always happy on high prairie.

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