The Price Paid For Cigarrettes By Janice Kimball On a Saturday night in December, I was about to put on my pajamas and go down to say good night to Grandora, when she called up to me. “Kya, I need you to go to the store for me.” She was out of cigarettes and […]
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Verdant View By Francisco Nava Your Garden and the New Year Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward and below I count as god of avenues and gates, The years that through my portals come and go. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) January was named for the Roman god Janus, known as
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Hermila Galindo By David Ellison Hermila Galindo seemed like the reincarnation of either Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or Susan B. Anthony, Janet Rankin, and Margaret Sanger all rolled into one. By any standard, she was an amazing woman. At the age of only 15, she moved to Mexico City, joined a liberal
Astrolynx By Juan Sacelli January 1, New Year’s Day, is an approximation of the winter solstice, ten days before. The winter and summer solstices are the two days in the year when a line through Sun and Earth points most directly toward Galactic Center, which we can cosmically call “the Source.” We time
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Santa’s Dilemma By Mark Sconce Every year about this time, St. Nicholas begins To organize his trip abroad Amid the children’s grins. But news this year at Christmastide Includes a sober piece: That certain children far and wide Are shockingly obese. Never one to shirk his duty, Old Santa makes a vow: “By shedding
The Lord God Bird, R.I.P. Death Stalks The Anthropocene World By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “There is terrible evil in the world. It comes from men. Men will never rest until they’ve spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.” —Richard Adams Watership Down One would almost anticipate hearing weeping, wailing, and lamentations across the
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New Year Wisdom By Judy Dykstra-Brown From the Ojo Archives After going to a New Year’s party for a few hours, I came home to welcome in the New Year online with a friend. I was railing on about the fact that a prompt site for which I wished to download an app only
Over Coffee For Jeremy Monroe, in memoriam I’ll have another cup of coffee please and one for the debonair man whose words are wisps of steam hovering above my cup; whose words are tiny cohetes, tightly packed with long experience and deep knowing, bursting over the Ajijic plaza; whose words are rocketing from Mexican
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star A Personal New Year Message to Carl Sagan By Don Beaudreau wbeaudreau@aol.com We at Lakeside and around the world are about to complete one year and begin another one. It is something we “humans” have been doing for half a million years. Indeed, we are time travelers. And yet, we
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My Life as a Spotlight Whore By Tom Nussbaum I’ve always been a spotlight whore. Performing never frightened me. Having an audience didn’t scare me. But there always had to be one underlying condition: I had to have some control of the situation, like costume details or amount of frontal nudity. My recent forays
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