Oregon
Tom calls it Utopia, I still call it home. For your reading enjoyment, I present to you Bob Welch, an Oregonian who writes a gem about Oregon in Sunday's Eugene Register-Guard: "Only six letters, but 'O,' what a word!"
posted by Byran @ 8:56 AM
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Love those Oregon stories ... AND those Oregonians. Oh, but to be one myself some day ... yet my ultimate dream. And has been since age 6. Now FIFTY SIX ! !
So what's the hold-up ?? I've wondered that all my life as I curse the Texas heat and humidity year after miserable year .. staring in wonder at the big, age-tarnished portraits of Mount Hood & Crater lake, the Mckenzie River rapids, and Office Covered Bridge down in Oakridge. Been there - seen 'em all, and so much more, and yet I return to this dusty, miserable state we call affectionately "Taxes" afterward with the reluctance of a puppy returning to the overturned garbage can. Somebody smack me please !
Wow!
No, I'm serious, Byran....All my life, I've complained about my home state. That's a terrible thing to admit, I know. Nobody likes a complainer .. a whiner. But everybody I've known has always lived here, naturally. Jobs always came easy here. But there has always been something missing. And I'm not talking about God. God and me are pretty tight..best buds (although I'm not near as good a friend as HE is). But whenever I complain about the weather for instance, I'm told .. "Yeah, you oughta have to live up in the Northwest where it's always rainy, & cloudy, and foggy, & dreary-looking". And my immediate response to that has always been "YEAH ! YOU'RE DEAD-ON RIGHT !" So when I finally got a chance to transfer my job to Portland back in the mid 90's I spent a couple of weeks checking out that area, as well as around Vancouver, & down into Eugene/Springfield, over to Florence, Newport, Beaverton, Astoria ... Okay, I spent a lotta time looking around. And in the end I LOVED what I saw, then came home and let everybody talk me OUT of leaving ..again. I've been back there 3 times since then, and still hate that sinking feeling of having to turn around and head east again after a couple of weeks at a time in UTOPIA, as Tom so appropriately calls the Big "O". Who was it that said "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go freely"... GMan
I don't know what to say, honestly. I'm not used to non-Oregonians blatantly agreeing with me.
Kudos though. I wish you a happy life in the Northwest someday.
That's a delightful piece about OR.
The letter composition of words certainly lends them a certain flavor. I wonder how much an alphabet affects the society that uses it.
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