MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 29, 2021 13
SECRETS
breathless, sometimes sad
lurking deep inside
and I want to set it free.
Reflections
with disclosures to bring us
to our knees.
magic potions
we will never utter.
they harbor secrets
in their hands.
But this time
tried to comprehend.
gentleman speaking
They both spoke
And as I neared
for another human being
for a short moment in time.
And as they shook hands
perhaps a bill passed through
that connection.
I am forest
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Diane Naab is an artist, former art gallery owner, world traveler, and published author, now living in the Seattle area.
Lori Tobias, arguably one of the hardest-working journalists travelling the 363 miles of U.S. 101 between the Astoria-Megler bridge and the California border, will discuss her recently published memoir, âStorm Beat: A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast,â via a Zoom/Facebook Live presentation at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 15.
Hosted by the Cannon Beach Libraryâs Northwest Authors Series, Tobias will discuss her ten years as a correspondent and feature writer for the Oregonian who focused mostly on small-town events, boating disasters, accidents, murders, storms, drownings and 165-ton dock the Tohoku tsunami pushed onto Agate Beach, just north of Newport, on my 65th birthday in 2012.