The Furious Spinner

Slept eleven hours under the Full Long Nights Moon, separated from its light by my house. Awakened occasionally to the sound of the East wind. In these parts at this time of year, East wind means cold. It keeps rattling the windows, shaking the house, as if it is an intruder looking for a way in. I have no resistance. If it wants to come in, it is welcome. What can you bring me? Inspiration? Healing? A new way of being? Unravel my cocoon? What would you find inside? Me as a chrysalis?

I dreamed I was a gay man. I also dreamed Mario was in peril—on a huge ship with these enormous waves all around. I screamed and screamed and screamed his name. He reassured me all was well. Uh-huh. This morning I hear environmentalists and other groups want "partial removal of four federal dams on the lower Snake River to re-create 140 miles of free-flowing river and habitat ('partial removal' means only the earthen section of each dam is removed; the concrete section remains and the re-created river flows around it)." This isn't new news. They're asking me to write to our so-called president to get him to do it. I think it's a lost cause. Bush will only do what is best for business. But I write the letter anyway. Who knows? Writer David James Duncan has an amazing essay on the site.

He writes, "The best thing to come out of the Northwest for ten thousand years is the wild salmon....Their bodies are the needle, their migration the thread, that sew this big broken region into a whole. No kilowatt can replace this. No barge can transport it."

If you go to the site, you can also write a letter, if you like. By the way, I've written about the salmon many times. In fact, using the Demeter and Persephone myth and the Eleusian mysteries, I created The Salmon Mysteries which we celebrated last year. I've written a couple of posts on salmon, including Dancin' To the Beat of a Different Drummer and Tower of Cosmic Reflections.

I hope they—we—succeed. I have dreamed of the Columbia River running red with salmon. I would like to see it so again, in "real" time.

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