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JIM TIPTON: The Man Who Falls in Love with Everything By Dr. Lorin Swinehart   Some years ago, while browsing in the poetry section of the Ashland University Library, I came across a small chapbook with the title “The Wizard of Is,” written by a James Tipton. I had known a Jim Tipton back in

The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce T.S. EliotThe Fugitive Poet (1888-1965)   Aside from the “T. S. Mrs. Eliot” taunt of yesteryear, first impressions of Thomas Stearns Elliot are confusing and his odyssey puzzling. On one hand, for example, we know he was the exponent and practitioner of Modernist poetry realized with the 1915 publication

THE LAKESIDE FREETHINKERS Submitted by Ken Crosby     Non-religious ex-pats live in a very religious community at Lakeside. Some seventeen churches advertise their services, not to mention bible study and prayer meetings, and scarcely a week goes by without missionaries appearing at my gate to try to tell me the “good news.” In such

STAY HEALTHY! By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D.  Dietetic and nutritional Overview PART III     HOW MUCH DO YOU WEIGH­? How much should you weight? In the best of all worlds, the answers would be the same. In reality, they aren’t. The latest version of recommended weight for height comes from 1990 edition of

Hope By Kay Davis   I hum the Ant Song. I’m sure that isn’t really the title for it, but you know which song I mean. “Everyone knows an ant can’t move a rubber tree plant, but he’s got high hopes, high hopes. Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant.” While I had been writing

Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Lake Chapala Painting Guild – A “New” Direction   Significant art engages the viewer. We are seized by a force that moves us beyond current definitions of reality. Captured, we find ourselves moving between emotional ecstasy and rapture, outside our social and cultural formation, looking past prejudice and conditioning,

THREE STRIKES By Robert Tennison   After retiring from my airline career as a steward, I decided it would be fun to still stay connected to the travel business, so I took a job with American Factors. AMFAC, among extensive property holdings, owned sixteen hotels in the Hawaiian Islands. Most of these hotels were ranked

MOMENT OF TRUTH By Gale Griffith   She knew she was in trouble. She had one week to prepare for the scrutiny that would incur. It would not be easy to face the pronouncement nor the resulting penalty of wrong doing. Would she be able to convince the jurors that her intention had been honorable,

INTUITION By Thomas J. Hally   The heart has its reasons, which reason cannot know. ~ Blaise Pascal  Have you ever seen or heard the following phrase? ‘You know more than you know you know.’  If true, it might easily be used as a proposition in a rhetorical debate or logic or a semantics argument.

THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.)   RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE—100 YEARS LATER Linda Steele I enjoyed this article! It brought back happy memories of curling up with one of those old Zane Grey novels and spending a snowy day wrapped up in a great story!