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May 6, 2009
Spiritual Shopping?
05.06.09Shopping is a religious experience in the United States. In fact, it may be the biggest drink-the-Kool-Aid church of them all. Sadly, it ignores...
Apr 29, 2009
Hey, Look Over There
04.29.09Carolyn Scott, founder and director of Reel Community Action in Santa Rosa has been honored as April's "Vibrant Giver" by the online women's magazine...
Apr 22, 2009
Spectrum of Thought
04.15.09Happy Earth Day. I imagine celebrants looking through green-colored glasses like those donned by Dorothy and pals in the Emerald City. But my green...
Apr 15, 2009
Off Walden Pond
04.15.09If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the...
Apr 8, 2009
Cool for School
04.08.09The kids in Occidental may be among the luckiest in Sonoma County, and perhaps in all California, when the Salmon Creek Falls Environmental Center...
Apr 1, 2009
Song of the Knuckleheads
04.01.09Somewhere in the throat of a mourning dove resides unfathomable emotion, gathering all that other species can't express, in a voice rich enough to...
Mar 25, 2009
Life and Limbs
03.25.09The whole earth is alive, all of a piece, one living thing, a creature.—Lewis Thomas Trees are healers without words or borders. Beyond the...
Mar 18, 2009
Death by Corn
03.18.09United States tax dollars that harm the poor are not only spent on wars; a portion goes toward government-sponsored death-by-corn here in this country....