River Voice:
An Interview at Home on the Land
with Author, Artist and Countrywoman
Produced, filmed and directed by Roen Hogg at BlueOwl Studio
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Born March 31st,1929, Easter Sunday on the cusp of April Fools Day in the year the stock market died.
Don, is the tall Shy Guy, spouse, creative force & phenomenal companion.
Three living middle-aged offspring who are neither children nor “mine,” KT, Stan and Peter. When your “baby” is eligible for AARP you search for new descriptors.
Three outstanding grand “children.” Jane, a college student: Anna Rose, a high school student and Aaron a graphic designer, metal artist, gardener, creative force, all around good sport and friend.
Home is a modest place on the banks of Coast Range Oregon river, 28 miles from “town.” I’m part of a mixed neo/retro hippie, artistic & staggeringly diverse forest community.
Identity at various times: daughter, wife, widow, mother, grieving parent, Aries, failed factory worker, potter, basket maker, sewin’ fool, adequate organically-inclined cook/food preserver, clinical social worker specializing in PTSD, loss, relationships & creative expression, hospice volunteer, tree hugging ecoappreciator, party girl, recluse, foolish risktaker, writer, computer graphics-photography neophyte, established writer & storyteller.
rapidly approaching eighty, what really matters is frugal mindfulness of precious, irreplaceable time. I want to set things right in the hope of Karma Kleaning the next time around. I’ll own up and, if possible, repair harm done either ignorantly or meanly. Having been given good health in age, loving and instructive companions as well as sufficient means not to be frightened, I am rich in choices. Relationships, creative expression, service, Nature, play and appreciation are central. It is with pleasure I write, lead groups exploring Celtic Spirituality and am of the tradition of Irish storytellers...a shenachie.
