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Steve West
I'm a writer, walker, and nature lover
Interests: walking, nature, and writing, reading (both good fiction and non-fiction), listening to music (particularly power-pop and alt-country), travel (particularly in the west)
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Hi Nora. I apologize for the delay publishing your comment (and note to Judy). I hope that she is able to see it now and, perhaps, respond. I was glad to see the number of folks who know of Myra Scovel’s poetry and life. I am glad I was introduce to it, though I came to it late. Blessings, Steve West
The Weight of a Poem: The Almost Forgotten Poetry of Myra Scovel
Most people have never heard of medical missionary, author, and poet Myra Scovel. Chalk that up to books long since out of print and the presentism that has hold of culture. I’d like you to know her. My used copy of Scovel’s 1970 collection of poetry, The Weight of a Leaf, bears her autograph a...
Only A Few Seats Left: Reserve Now for Alathea, Thursday, July 28, 8:00 PM
Posted Jul 23, 2022 at Brookhaven House Concerts
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Time to Reserve: Alathea, In Concert, July 28, 8:00 PM
Posted Jul 17, 2022 at Brookhaven House Concerts
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Reserve Your Seat Now: Alathea, In Concert, Thursday, July 28, 8:00 PM
Posted Jul 10, 2022 at Brookhaven House Concerts
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Tickets Going Fast: Reserve Seats for Alathea, Thursday, July 28, 8:00 PM
Posted Jul 1, 2022 at Brookhaven House Concerts
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Reserve Your Seat: Alathea, In Concert, Thursday, July 28th, 8:00
Posted Jun 25, 2022 at Brookhaven House Concerts
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Alathea: In Concert, Thursday, July 28, 2022, 8:00 PM
Posted Jun 14, 2022 at Brookhaven House Concerts
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It’s Coming to Take You Away (Corrected)
Posted Jun 5, 2021 at Out Walking
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A White Line Out of Here
Posted Apr 4, 2021 at Out Walking
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Don, that’s kind of you to say...and a relief. When you appropriate someone else’s words, there is always the danger of making them say something they didn’t. I actually had not read far enough in your book to come to the Christmas essay, but as I was considering Christmas, I thought, I wonder if Don has written on this? I was glad to find that you had, and so well—and then it gave me and opportunity to go back to our conversation last year, which was rich. May God give you many more words in the coming year, and may others come to love the place where they are as well.
Where We Are, Who We Are
“If we make a mistake about where we are, we can make a mistake about who we are” (D.J.Waldie) Sometimes when I want to remember who I am, I think about where I am, and to think about where I am, I sometimes think about a place where I am not, a place foreign to me. Historian and memoirist Don ...
Where We Are, Who We Are
Posted Dec 24, 2020 at Out Walking
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Jackie, indeed it has been a hard year, and we have been waiting for something to happen, right? I’m glad these words were helpful to you. Let’s use this interstice for more prayer. God be with you.
Interstitial Prayer: What To Do While You're Waiting For Something To Happen
One of the most difficult commands of Scripture to implement is that to "pray continually" (1 Thess. 5:17). It obviously doesn't mean every single moment of every single day, because then when would we do everything else? Or does it some sense mean just that? I can tell you that I have never met...
Slowing down is a difficult thing! Thanks Tanya.
Connecting October to April
At the perimeter of the yard, huddled by the fence, lies our grill, veiled, like it is ashamed of its diminutive stature. Arcing above it is a maple that once near died but many years since has bent toward the sun and thrust upward, and the bashful grill there teeters, like a child with its new...
Connecting October to April
Posted Oct 5, 2020 at Out Walking
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Home Calling
Posted Aug 23, 2020 at Out Walking
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Take Out
Posted Jul 5, 2020 at Out Walking
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Today’s News
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at Out Walking
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Dave, thanks for your comment. D.J. Waldie is coined house as “hero,” of course. I recommend his book, Holyland, which is a memoir of suburbia not as critique but love story. All the best to you. . .and your home in which you are making memories.
Allies
“The world is hard to live in, it seems to me, and we need allies. Your house can be a hero, too. And how else could it ever be home, if you did not fall in love with it?” (D.J. Waldie, in California Romantica) Like many of you, I have been under near house arrest for weeks. When you are in one ...
That’s a poetic reply, Amanda. Thank you! Jane Kenyon is on my very small list of poets that I enjoy reading.
Allies
“The world is hard to live in, it seems to me, and we need allies. Your house can be a hero, too. And how else could it ever be home, if you did not fall in love with it?” (D.J. Waldie, in California Romantica) Like many of you, I have been under near house arrest for weeks. When you are in one ...
Allies
Posted Apr 29, 2020 at Out Walking
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The Kinship of Things
Posted Mar 24, 2020 at Out Walking
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Eating the Past
Posted Feb 26, 2020 at Out Walking
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It’s good to hear from you, Michael, and thanks for sharing your heartfelt story. I will have to listen to Lennie Gallant, as I have not heard him, though I have visited your beautiful island many years ago. May God be with you and keep you and your son well. Blessings, Steve.
His Father’s Son: Singer-Songwriter Pierce Pettis on Life and Legacy
Pierce Pettis is taking stock of life. His first solo release in ten years, Father’s Son (Compass, Jan. 19) offers a retrospective on the past and a prayer for the future. As Pettis sums it up: “The overall theme, at least for me, is ‘Father’s Son’—and all that can imply. I’m thinking of my own...
Oddities, Thankfully
Posted Jan 16, 2020 at Out Walking
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Claire Holley Concert Cancelled
Unfortunately, the Claire Holley concert scheduled for December 29th has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule in the Spring! Continue reading
Posted Dec 29, 2019 at Brookhaven House Concerts
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