
Inner Peace: Departing thoughts
Richard Carey: Now, with some sadness, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on. In my own pursuit of inner peace, I’ve got a few bucket list items to take care of, and I’m not getting any younger.
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Richard Carey: Now, with some sadness, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on. In my own pursuit of inner peace, I’ve got a few bucket list items to take care of, and I’m not getting any younger.
Annie Katz: Cultivating stillness, resting in a quiet body and a quiet mind, connects us to a deep well of inner peace.
Janai “Grandma Boom” Mestrovich: Mom collected frog memorabilia and also enjoyed drumming. It just made sense to be near the frogs when I drummed and chanted to honor her.
Moshe Ross: The wave’s swell, the trough as well as the crest of the wave, passes from water to water; we each feel each. Thus a suggestion can drag us down or lift us up, although the upliftment really lies within our own divine self, ready to break through.
Jim Hatton: It has been said that if we can observe something, we are not that. In essence, we are consciousness. We are that which is doing the observing.
Annie Katz: What if we were taught that the world is a playground? In such a world, we would be given play areas appropriate to our age along with a few basic suggestions: Don’t hurt yourself. Don’t hurt anyone else.
Richard Carey: Guilt can relentlessly hobble aspirations toward personal happiness and inner peace. It often is the main driver of the need for personal redemption and transcendence.
Jim Hawes: Bill Samuel says that the child (wonder, joy, and enthusiasm) is available any time or age atop what he calls the mountain of struggle.
Inner Peace: Sally McKirgan passed away on Sunday, July 21, at the age of 82. Sally conceived the idea of the Inner Peace column in December 2008. Sally felt the column was perfect for her beloved Ashland, with its “many gifted spiritual teachers and seekers.”
Jim Hatton: Those who believe in the principle of Omnipresence would maintain that God is everywhere, all the time. Yet, if one is looking for God in a certain place, it must mean that God is not in the place where the search is starting! It is such a saddening thought that God is only in certain places.
Obituary: Sandra Risser, who began life in quiet eastern Nebraska before building a family and a professional career in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area, died Jan. 4 in Ashland. She was 87.
Poetry Corner: A Valentine’s gift for parents, grandparents, and great grandparents who would like to help their young one’s count with a rhythmic and rhyming poem.
Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a bipartisan package of wildfire prevention initiatives, including one that required state experts to create a map showing high wildfire risk areas statewide. Sen. Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, who supported creating the map, said it’s become counterproductive in its current form.
City Corner: The 2024 city of Ashland list of accomplishments highlights numerous advancements and initiatives across various departments. Following is a summary of the key achievements, including completion of the wastewater treatment plant outfall relocation and UV system upgrades.
Curtain Call: After university studies in Indiana and Colorado, and pursuing his career playing with several orchestras, Jerry Su returned to Southern Oregon in 2022 to audition for the second E-flat clarinet position with the Rogue Valley Symphony — and got the job.
Some rural Talent residents say the recent Southern Oregon snowstorm gave them more practice than they’d have liked to test out their assortment of doomsday supplies and survival skills — a more than three-and-a-half-day-long exercise in relying on the array of off-the-grid infrastructure put in place over the past decade.
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