#PDX friends I wanted to let you know that #StephenJenkinson (whom I’ve interviewed twice on the topics of death, the role of an artist and the making of human culture, will be in #Portland this weekend and tickets are still available. Via his website: . They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’ve become timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery, quixotic, with some swagger. What would you call such a thing? Nights of Grief & Mystery. . Part poetry, part lamentation, part book reading, part ribaldry, part concert, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there...that’s what’s in store. The doors are pried at night’s end, and still many linger and can’t leave or won’t, and there is something like victory in the air, and a weary, luminous midnight rumour that, people heretofore unknown to each other, can still join for the sake of the young among them and for the world entrusted to them, and that the Mercies count us kin, and that wonder is the currency of the Gods. . Tickets: #linkinbio or >>> bit.ly/griefandmysterypdx . #orphanwisdom https://www.instagram.com/p/BpAaUqVng0o/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gqrsuqrw6svs