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Aging Like a Guru | Stop working so hard at trying
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- This morning I had the delight to hang with my friend Joy for an hour. Joy is a joy-bunny. Her work on Earth is to play and create. She would
Orcasional Musings | The Patos Light
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- Today, the lighthouse on Patos Island is merely a museum, an artifact of an earlier way of life. But not too long ago, besides the lighthouse and foghorn,
Aging like a guru | Letting go of what for what?
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- Self-help materials all encourage people to let go of patterns, habits, and behaviors that aren’t getting them the results they want: more happiness, health, wealth, love. We hear it all
Orcasional Musings | The Peacock
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- Long ago and far away—well, maybe about 15 years ago and across Horseshoe Highway from the golf course—a neighbor kept an avian menagerie of sorts. The most visible
Letter to Editor | Vacationing in a fools’ paradise
-- from Tom Evans -- There is no better time than right now to save what all of us hold sacred about the beauty of the land, water, trees, mountains and shoreline of the San Juan Islands. It has
Aging Like a Guru | Dying… What choice do I have?
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- "The Person Who Dies with the Most Toys Wins!" Anonymous When you read a good book, especially a novel, and you’ve stayed attentive and engaged to the very end, you
Kruse Reviews | One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
-- Book review by Jens Kruse -- On New Year’s Day, 2013, Gene Weingarten – two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for The Washington Post – steps into the Old Ebbitt Grill in Washington,
Orcasional Musings | Squirrels? What about them?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| A recent trip down to Seattle, for a cousin's full-house Thanksgiving feast, causes me to muse on the family Sciuridae, those rats in designer couture who populate our
Editorial | What the smell is going on?
-- by Lin McNulty, Editor, Orcas Issues -- Step through the door of any store -- even on our pure island -- and you may be met by odors that either you like or not,
Letter to Editor | We just want to say ‘thank you’
-- from Emilie Gincig and Funhouse Commons staff -- THANK YOU to the amazing children, teens, and families we serve at the Funhouse. You inspire us, make us laugh, and motivate us to work even
Guest Opinion | A call for rational climate action
-- from Bill Appel -- You attend lectures, subscribe to emails, newsletters and magazines, and buy books describing environmental degradation and the resulting death, destruction and misery suffered by all forms of life, and the
Letter to Editor | So much, so many to be thankful for
-- from Orcas Odd Fellows -- We would like to give thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of the Thanksgiving meal at the Odd Fellows Hall. We would like to extend gratitude for
Aging isn’t about aging … What?
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- "Be yourself - everyone else is already taken," . . . ever hear that quote before? My friends David Bennett and Cindy Griffith-Bennett wrote a book called Voyage of Purpose. I’m
Editorial | Nothing but gratitude …
-- by Lin McNulty, Orcas Issues Editor -- Thanksgiving. Throughout my years, the meaning of the day has fluctuated from shenanigans at the kid's table with my brothers and cousins, through waking up early here
Aging Like a Guru | Resonance is the sweet spot of aging gracefully
What are you listening For? Where are you listening From? -- from Rosie Kuhn -- For those of you reading this or one of my previous offerings, I suspect that you were attracted to something
