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As the Paradigm Shifts | Love resides everywhere, always
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN||| This week, after 14 years of love and joy, I said goodbye to my companion Gracie, my dog. My experience in the first few days has been
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Guest Opinion | This is what happens when challenges hit our Orcas community
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Thank you for this honor. I am deeply appreciative. Community Leadership is a team sport and I thank the Orcas Island Community Foundation staff, Board,
Letter to Editor | Are our tourism and growth policies dysfunctional?
||| FROM MICHAEL JOHNSON ||| "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." -Margaret Wheatley The unanswered questions repeatedly asked over the years by concerned citizens regarding how
Midnight Mutterings | Letter from America
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Yesterday, I left Orcas Island to spend a few days on the mainland, In addition to some appointments, I wanted to visit Rose and Molly. Their first birthday
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
As the Paradigm Shifts | Can you know how awesome you are?
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| For most of us, the world we live in doesn't support us knowing how great we are. It doesn't support us being fearless, abundant and extraordinary.
Letter to Editor | OIFR is adding another position while threatening layoffs
||| FROM PATRICK SHEPLER ||| How, in good conscience, can the Board of Fire Commissioners approve another new Admin. position, while simultaneously threatening layoffs of the most tenured actual responders? And how can they add another
Letter to Editor | Is it time to consider viable options to our ferry service?
||| FROM KEN WOOD ||| We will not solve our (ferry) problems with the same thinking that created them. Perhaps we should at least consider other options than boats? What about the Airlander? THIS is
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | The bad soap opera at OIFR continues
||| FROM GREG AYERS ||| Wow, OIFR is a bad soap opera, and they are spending OUR money to make it. You just gotta scratch your head. Only these commissioners can successfully, and repeatedly “snatch
Full Moon Tarot | Magic, boredom, and harmony
||| FULL MOON TAROT by NIK SCHULZ ||| Alignment with the magic of nature gives way to feelings that nothing else measures up. In the end though we learn to work with both experiences. Queen
Letter to Editor | No new ferries any time soon?
||| FROM DAVID TURNOY ||| The governor and legislature are quite aware of the need for new ferries, and accordingly money has been budgeted for this. The goal is to produce new ferries that greatly
Midnight Mutterings | Bullies
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| I’ve been been reading the recent words of Michael Luttig and Laurence Tribe, and thinking about a time decades ago when I was in graduate school in California.
Letter to Editor | No new ferries anytime soon?
||| FROM DAVID TURNOY ||| The governor and legislature are quite aware of the need for new ferries, and accordingly money has been budgeted for this. The goal is to produce new ferries that greatly
