The hijinks at a duck pond in small town Oregon reveals American life in all its pluck and wonder.
The valley’s hill-ringed metropolis is Roseburg: population a little shy of 25,000. It’s a town that Johnny Cash sings about in “Lumberjack”. Since moving here from Down Under, I’ve learned many things in my adjustment to the beguiling ways of the Pacific Northwest — including to drive with a very mellow mindset. In Australia, by way of contrast, everyone gets up each other’s ass on the road, yelling and threatening if some dickhead goes too slow or leaves a gap in the traffic.
And one thing I learned in my years as a firefighter and rescue operator in Australia was that first-responding provides an intimate view of life behind the veils we all have up. The pond in question extends from alongside a skate park and a Fred Meyer store. Here is a tiny, but telling, sampling from the wonderful
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