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Of Walking in Rain
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Matt Love
lonesetback
, March 21, 2017
The book is nothing short of a call to action at a precise cultural moment when it could do good by many people. That everyone is always frowning at a 2.5" screen is rather hilarious. What it isn't is action. As Love writes, "Rain is action." Here is a broadside; a fusillade; indeed it is a carpet bombing of evidence in favor of rain. Two examples: "We waited for rain, rigid rain, then walked directly into the downpour." And, "Sun is expensive, rain is cheap." Love extolls a primary experience, a local version of say, hiking Owyhee Canyon out east. It's going out into water, wind, solitude, both for their own sake and, in turn, as a way of confronting and ultimately embracing the world and out fate in it.
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Citadel of the Spirit Oregons Sesquicentennial Anthology
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Matt Love
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, February 20, 2009
Editor Matt Love has given us a book that, for one thing, provides excellent depictions of pre-boomtime Oregon. One gets a real sense of life in this state prior to the mid-1970s when the timber economy was still humming along. From the speeches of iconic Governor Tom McCall to Ralph Friedman's compelling essay on the self-publication of his celebrated book "Oregon for the Curious" and the account of the filming of "Sometimes a Great Notion" on the central coast, the book takes us newcomers back to what it was like before a lot of us got here. Just think of how good life here is now, then double it.
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