Learning to Pay Attention By Phyllis Rausch My new renter, Sam, turned up on the first day of October, my favorite month. It’s not just because I’m a Scorpio, but who could forget those incredibly beautiful Ohio autumns? Each year, surrounded by the blazing colors of the elms, maples, and chestnuts, I would recall […]
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Grand Canyon Rhapsody/Grand Canyon Requiem By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the unlovely human mind.” Aldo Leopold President Theodore Roosevelt said of Grand Canyon, “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at
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Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: Teri Saya’s humorous essay (Oct. Ojo, p. 10) set me off. My wife and I were surprised (and enthralled) when we stumbled on one in Leon en route to Guanajuato in 1994 or 5. Even had a curtain you could draw to conceal the license plate. Don’t turn on
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Convergence By Pia Kraus Aitken Convergence is strange… a little disorienting. It wasn’t like I was a dedicated jogger. I was mostly running off excess energy or tension, depending on the day. Carmel Beach was a great place for it – a long stretch of clean sand in Carmel Bay. When I ran one
I Passed Myself Today By Liz Larrabee Today I passed myself on the way back to my youth.Foolishly retracing the footsteps of my failuresI braved the muck and mire of mid-life misadventureto avert despair by the experience of having already been there–blinded by passion when I should have known better.How many wrongs does it
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Have Hammers, Will Travel! The students and volunteers of Have Hammers Will Travel (HHWT) / Mr. Hammer built and delivered custom designed dog houses to the four animal rescue groups of the area just before Christmas. The project was aided by donations of paint from Pinturas Prisa of Ajijic, screws from an un-named
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Practicing Patience! By Kathy Koches Those who know me, know that patience has never been, nor will it ever be, my strong suit. It is something I have had to work on my whole life. I don’t like waiting for surprises, Christmas or trips. I want the answers to questions NOW (the Internet has
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FIRES! By Jan Steinbright Dawn summoned me outside to take a look. I was confronted with a strong smell of smoke. I looked up toward the “v” in the hills at the head of our small arroyo. A large red cloud hovered above it returning my fears of yesterday when the wildfire
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez For more editorials, visit: http://thedarksideofthedream.com A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT: The Later Years —Delight Or Depression? Your choice, but before you decide, consider this: there are certain parts of the brain that actually keep developing as we grow older—particularly if we give them plenty of exercise. Moreover, though we tend
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