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Aging Like a Guru | Depression is so depressing
-- from Rosie Kuhn, Aging Like a Guru -- While scrolling through posts on my Facebook page the other day, I came across a photo of some of my friends that was taken a couple
Letter to Editor | Thank you, San Juan Island Community Foundation
-- from Diane Martindale for San Juan Islands Museum of Art -- We live in a community of openhearted people who in quiet ways assure that many of our non-profit services are alive and robust.
Guest Opinion | First days on the job
-- from Mia Kartiganer, Port of Orcas -- The onus is on me. No two ways about it. It doesn’t take much twist of the vernacular to imagine what the acronym for Port Of Orcas
Aging Like a Guru | What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail? Age!
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- A long time ago, this question was popping up in self-empowerment materials: “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” It’s one of those questions that I avoid answering.
Guest Opinion | When paradise isn’t, but could be
-- from Kevin Carter, Gregory Kramer, and Jari Andrea Brenner -- Orcas Island is this perfect backdrop for creating and living your best life, but for some, there is an undercurrent of intolerance and, in
Orcasional Musings | Colonoscopy? Over my dead body!
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| One of the "features" of aging past 50 is the quinquennial colonoscopy, "just to make sure that nothing bad is happening in there." And now it was time for
Letter to Editor | Open letter to Orcas Island from the Port
-- from Mia Kartiganer for Port of Orcas -- This is not a “To Whom it May Concern” letter, that would suggest that it doesn’t concern us all. Whether you vehemently oppose expansion of our
Letter to Editor | School Board members deserve our recognition
-- from Eric Webb, Orcas Schools Superintendent -- By proclamation of the governor, January is School Board Recognition Month. It’s a great time to recognize our elected community members who selflessly give their time and
Aging Like a Guru | The courage to change the things you can
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- Through my group at the Senior Center here on Orcas, it has come to my attention that most individuals are aging with an addiction to thought patterns that actually create
Orcasional Musings | Otters? Where?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| We were taking our usual walk, from the parking lot at North Beach, south on North Beach Road, west and then north around Sucia Drive, down through the
Aging like a Guru | Death by aging: Failing to thrive
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- Truth is, you are the culmination of all incarnations of life on Earth. You are the pinnacle of evolution of your ancestors. You are the highest evolution of all of
Orcasional Musings |What else is missing?
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- When Crow Valley Pottery closed in 2016, it took yet another pleasure away from our island. Michael and Jeffri were partial to NECCO Wafers, and they sold them
Letter to Editor | Alex Ramel is perfect for new role
-- from Andy Wickstrand -- Thank you, Commissioners Hughes and Watson, for voting to appoint Alex Ramel as our next state representative. In the never-ending cycle of bad news on the global and national levels,
Aging Like a Guru | Be the legacy you wish to leave behind
The topic of Legacies is a big one as part of the aging process. What will you leave behind for your family, community, or the world at large? Wills, trusts, foundations, charities all are in
Orcasional Musings | Something’s missing
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- About two-thirds of the way from the ferry landing to Eastsound, on the west side of Horseshoe Highway, there's a high, weather-worn, wood-slat fence. Behind it sits an
