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Patra Kelly
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Coping With Covid

Headshot of a woman with glasses and red hair. by Patra Kelly

A common answer these days to the question, “How are you doing?” is “Hanging in there.” What helps people to hang in there when they can’t hang out with others? Outside the Patagonia Senior Center, people often talk about ways they have found to survive, or even thrive, in this time of social distancing and […]

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Celebrating Donna

Headshot of a woman with glasses and red hair. by Patra Kelly

When Walter Andrew asked me to help Donna Reibslager by responding to the many emails sent monthly to the PRT, I also began writing articles. I liked having a reason to check in with her, enjoying our conversations over the next few years. She gave me helpful writing suggestions, sometimes adding a line or ending, […]

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Adventures of Rhonda Brew

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Artwork by Rhonda Brew Rhonda’s story might begin with her hitchhiking across the country from Michigan to the west coast at age 18, leaving behind her family and overprotective father. Or her story could start with her training to be the first woman in the state of Washington to becomea “journeyman industrial painter/sandblaster,” (1978-1982), which […]

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Herstory: Wilderness Inside Out

Headshot of a woman with glasses and red hair. by Patra Kelly

Artwork by Rhonda Brew A yearning cascading out of memory, inaccessible to language, took her on safari into her vast interior where she found lost jungles unrestrained, forgotten and unexplored, luxuriant with passion to leap into other minds, swim around in souls expanding into all that Is in Wilderness inside and out “HerStory,” is a […]

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