Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “…human, lovely, and sufficient unto itself.” As I enter middle age—I turn seventy in two years—I think more and more about relationships of short duration. Most of the people I know well in both Colorado and Mexico have had “one night stands,” so popular in the […]
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Welcome to Mexico By Victoria Schmidt Mexican Currency I admit it. I am dumbfounded by the currency of Mexico, coming from the USA where all currency was green and on cotton fiber and uniform size for the notes, and the coins while in various sizes, were uniform in color. The currency from my first
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Like the Nike Commercial says – Just Do It! “Are you kidding me? I’m not letting them put a tube up my ass!” “I’m not subjecting myself to such an invasive test!” “To be perfectly honest I am afraid of what they are going
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood The Israeli Palestinian Conflict The Israeli Palestinian Conflict. While in Israel 35 years ago I encountered gunfire on Temple Mount, roadblocks on an excursion into the West Bank, bleak refugee camps in the desert, camps now occupied by third generation Arabs. Endless procrastination in resolving this conflict was
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “…this is the best season of your life.” I recently had the pleasure of being invited to speak at the local Unitarian Universalist Fellowship…on the topic of “aging.” I happily accepted, said that I could easily do that, hung up, and then immediately realized I know
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Hands Like Eyes By W. Burns Taylor (Ed. Note: Burns teaches blind children to use a Braille laptop computer like his own.) In the country of the blind it was the feeling hands the most. Like spiders with thick legs They crawled into all the secret nooks and crannies, forcing intimacy upon strangers. They rubbed
Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com April 2010 Events are listed by date, like a calendar: past events, then those planned for the future. Some organizations offer multiple events, and these items appear toward the end of the column. February 25 Sol y Luna showed artwork of photography,
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Paraprosdokian! A paraprosdokian sentence consists of two parts, where the first is a figure of speech and the second an intriguing variation of the first. They’re used typically for humorous or dramatic effect. * Never argue with an idiot. He’ll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. * Going to
Ask Carolyn By Carolyn Comedo DEAR CAROLYN: I confessed to Father Gregory that I indulge in what he calls the solitary vice. He said it was the most destructive pastime ever practised by sinful man and precipitates warts, blindness, impotence, sterility, heart disease, deafness, and cancer. I’m twenty-eight and according to Father Gregory I
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Feathered Friends By John Keeling Canyon Towhee The canyon towhee is a largish sparrow that is a fairly common resident around Lake Chapala, but it is not often recognized because it is so plain-Jane. You will see this bird most often on your lawn first thing in the morning looking for seeds and insects
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