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Village Voices | What are your hopes for the New Year?
Orcas Issues debuts a new column for 2020, Village Voices, wherein Minor Lile takes to the streets to hear directly from islanders. -- by Minor Lile, Orcas Issues reporter -- New Year’s Day, January 1,
Aging like a Guru | I have no time for serenity … As if I’ve got something better to do
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- In a few minutes I have a meeting. I want my day to start as I usually start my day with reading and being contemplative -- feeling into serenity so
Orcasional Musings | How my musings are triggered — An example
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- I'm the first to admit that I have a wandering mind, just waiting for a trigger-word or an interesting phrase to set it on its merry way. It's
Letter to Editor | Big thanks to all who visited Santa at the landing
-- from Toby T. Hiller -- The Orcas Island Lions Club would like to thank the the parents and children who visited the Lions Christmas Ship, Sunday, December 15, 2019, at the Orcas ferry landing.
Guest Opinion | What does it mean to be a human being on Orcas Island?
A contemporary cultural perspective -- from Jari Brenner -- I am a cultural anthropologist with an emphasis on contemporary American culture. I also study Intercultural Communication. When I first came to Orcas Island in 1990,
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
