Author Archives: sandyjensen

Beautiful Bandon

The Weather Channel predicted a storm, but they call Bandon the Gold Coast for a reason! Continue reading

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Out of the Cave

This is the latest in a whole series of poems using the Giantess as an image for my soul mentor. Continue reading

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Have You Known Glory?

Yesterday I asked my CNF students to write for 10 minutes on the question, “When have you known glory?” Of course, I always write with them, and for some reason, even though I’m supposed to be writing creative nonfiction, it looks like a poem came through this time. Continue reading

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Once Upon a Time in the Northwest

When I was a child I became aware my father had lived another life before me and my siblings. Continue reading

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Mallard Mom: Master Teacher

A mallard hen teaches her ducklings about a strawberry and I wonder if I’m as good a teacher as a duck? Continue reading

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Dark Matter on Sweet Creek

NASA is looking for dark matter now.
I see it everywhere in Sweet Creek falls,

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Just before Blake died his countenance became fair

“(about William Blake) As for Blake’s happiness–a man who knew him said: “If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me.” And yet this creative … Continue reading

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Serendipity, cosmic coincidence, or what?

March 21, 2011I love stories about serendipity because it forces me to “think out of the box.” Here’s another one I stumbled across for my collection! Emilio Estevez got writer’s block while writing the script for Bobby (2006), so his … Continue reading

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More on Crazy Serendipity!

An insane case of serendipity, the weird way the world “likes to rhyme”! Continue reading

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Journey. Grace. Giant.

Synchronicity is not to be looked directly in the eye: the shamanic world speaks from the margins. Continue reading

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