I’ve noticed lately that I feel a little out of touch with my spiritual self.  I wonder about the relationship between spirituality and the seasons.  I’m sure it is different for everybody, but I seem to notice a pattern.
In the spring, I feel that I’ve been reborn.  Like I can breathe [...]

That the planet is in crisis is extreme and it is true. And every person needs to understand this in every cell. If anyone is reading this, you may be waiting for the uplifting “but we have a choice” ending.  But it isn’t coming.  THE PLANET IS IN CRISIS.  We need to start thinking and acting like it.

Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle, written in 2003, is a little, 127 page book that I read and re-read frequently.  Simple and yet profound in content, it reminds me over and over and over again that the answers I seek, are found in stillness.
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D-Sandwich spent a weekend at Phillips Park outside of Haines and Baker City, Oregon with La Grande’s disc golf community. This disc tournament weekend was attended by nearly 55 folks and the group spent 3 days camping, throwing discs, and having a great time. “D” got his hands on the camera and did [...]

La Grande residents came together to meet with Oregon’s nominee for Governor in 2010, John A. Kitzhaber. The event was very well attended even though the meeting was added to the former Governors’ schedule at the last minute. The meet-up took place at Foley Station in downtown La Grande on Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
Former Governor [...]

Demobilization process is really a long drawn out process when soldiers are trying to return home to family and friend. Even once we returned back into the states we were still not allowed to see family. It’s all due to the process of trying to get processed out of active duty military and prepare you [...]

To quote Wikipedia, Feng Shui “is an ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive qi” (or chi or energy).  More commonly, people utilize principles of Feng Shui (pronounced Fung Shway), in home decor in the hopes it will increase [...]

We all have them.  Those old bits of baggage from our childhood, relationships, physical traumas, even past life baggage.  Have you ever noticed how with some wounds, no matter how hard you try, they are resistant to a “cure”?  Have you ever noticed how something seemingly inert can trigger a full-blown [...]

The novelist Peter Rock will be the final visiting writer in this year’s Ars Poetica Reading Series. He will present a reading from his recent award-winning novel “My Abandonment” at 7:30 p.m., Monday May 24 in the reference Room of the Pierce Library on the Eastern Oregon University campus. The reading is free and open [...]

It’s coming on to farmers market season – and I can’t wait.
A couple weekends ago I was down in Boise and got to walk through their burgeoning Capital City Public Market on 8th. Beautiful… There were all manner of vendors, selling everything from homemade spaghetti sauce (I picked up a jar), to the regular bounty [...]