Reading Local: Portland

My new favorite blog is about local writers work in Portland, thus my title. I picked up The Chronology of Water. It started out really good, but now I'm getting bored with that lifestyle. The author talks about too much booze and sex. At some point you have to grow out of it or you get stuck in it, no matter how bad your trauma was or is. At some point you have to walk away from the trauma, like I'm doing with the TV. Everyone on the news on TV is in trauma, a trauma that is way too much for me. I spent my day chatting with Rosie, walking on the treadmill, making a failed grape jelly, and finally drinking coffee and going to the library to check out some writing magazines. Trauma, inner or outer, causes you to focus too much on yourself and to develop a complex of ego and ism, or as Rosie told me today, I, self and me. Being stuck in this complex is the result and cause of so much trauma. I need to walk away or fun away I self and me. Which is so hard to do. My writing, although bad, makes a point.