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A fellow traveler thinks about burdens, balance, and grace. Join the voyage as we weather changing seas. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: February 2013. February 26, 2013. February 18, 2013. Do we surrender all hope and sag and bag with a vengeance? Do we find something exciting and vital to do as the nest empties, or will any job or busywork do? Honestly, I wanted to ask if I could snap a picture of her hairdo for future reference! February 18, 2013. The price gets p...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: Pep Talk
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Saturday, March 17, 2012. Pep Talk for My Buddy in Prison. Time for a pep talk. If you think I am “disappointed” in you, well, I’m not. I admire your courage and determination to take on challenging tasks and to push yourself. I admire how you grow and take care of yourself. My job is to support you, to be part of your team. I’m at your back, and if you stumb...I don&#...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: Taking Up Again, At Our Fortieth Reunion
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Saturday, June 27, 2015. Taking Up Again, At Our Fortieth Reunion. It was, we agreed, standing outside in the hot evening after our class reunion dinner, the best experience of our undergraduate years, studying how people related with each other, how that really was the gist of becoming a better person, how we used those skills, those observations, in growing our lives...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: Travels With Joseph
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Freedom Day came early for me. It always does. I arrive at Camp Tillamook just before six am, coffee thermos in hand, ready for my buddy’s first day of freedom. Freedom Day. A new life. The end of prison. But, now what? We know we are going to Bend, and the first stop is the parole office. But, we don’t know where Joseph is going to s...Joseph ...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: What I Learned at the Domestic Violence Summit
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Monday, September 20, 2010. What I Learned at the Domestic Violence Summit. What I Learned at the Domestic Violence Summit. Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center, sponsor. Tillamook Bay Community College, September 9-10, 2010. 8220;Domestic violence is the well spring of all criminal behavior.”. 1/6 of men are abusers. The Impact on the Community. There are lasting ...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: July 2015
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Friday, July 31, 2015. My new video about my book and mentoring. Enjoy my new video. Where I talk about mentoring, and the writing of my book, Mentoring Boys to Men: Climbing Their Own Mountains. Mentoring boys to men. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Subscribe To Neal's Blog. What I Learned at the Domestic Violence Summit. Discovering My ...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: Planting Our Gardens
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Friday, May 29, 2015. This was a week of planting flowers. She was joined by others, and a Facebook group was created, #TillamookForLove, its members now close to 3,000. The preaching and the counter demonstrations became the talk of the town. The young girl’s actions were mentioned around the world, tweeted by Ellen DeGeneres and becoming a featured stor...Bigotry and...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: Fathering Time
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Fathering occurs unexpectedly, often in the richest, most productive ways. Undefined, unlimited by the clock and the calendar, those moments of rich, intense interaction suddenly come into our lives, without us often being aware until it comes upon us. In the moment, space opens up between us, and the energy, the love, flows. Subscribe to: Post ...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: June 2015
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Saturday, June 27, 2015. Taking Up Again, At Our Fortieth Reunion. It was, we agreed, standing outside in the hot evening after our class reunion dinner, the best experience of our undergraduate years, studying how people related with each other, how that really was the gist of becoming a better person, how we used those skills, those observations, in growing our lives...
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Spruce Eagle Poet: Almost to Angoon: An Alaskan Adventure
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Musings from Neal Lemery, an Oregon Coast writer, poet, painter, and a bit of a guitar player. My video on mentoring and writing my book. Saturday, August 28, 2010. Almost to Angoon: An Alaskan Adventure. Glaciers were on our destination, and even Glacier Bay, which is a 45 mile long fjord that was filled with a huge glacier just two hundred years ago, and some glaciers there were even growing, despite global warming. We stopped to admire several sizeable waterfalls gushing down from the granite cliffs, ...
