While we watch amazing folks helping those in desperate straits in TX, I just want to say we have our own kind and wonderful people here as well. Thanks to the Latina mother and her young son, who...

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You may not realize how the label "Organic" is devolving into an advertising gimmick. This article was an eye-opener for me . . ....

Phenomenal Woman

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling...

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From Julia Bystrovia at Standing Rock, with the very most recent posts from back in Sonoma County. Most recent at the bottom.
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The latest postings from Julia Bystrova at Standing Rock, the most recent on the bottom:
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thank you for this perspective and I want to say that I do agree, that we need to be focusing on the alternatives. In fact, that has really been my mantra-- build the new and we'll just outgrow the...

Anne Peterson, a Sebastopol-based photojournalist, has photos of the Women's March at our State Capital at www.photogravie.com. If you have any difficulty seeing these notify her at:...

Shepherd,
Thank you for asking this and other questions, which provide a way to move inward, which is where all feelings reside as responses or reactions to outer stimuli, and our own "self-talk".
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Democracy

It's coming through a hole in the air,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHI9BTpGkp8
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feels
that it ain't exactly real,
or...

So now we can expect that Trump and his GOP allies will dismantle the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which will throw a bunch of people out of coverage, especially those with existing conditions...

Morning After To-Do List, By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page, 10 November 16
https://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-M.jpgorning After To-Do List:

Take over the...

Jonathan,

I don't think we would live in utopia but possibly we could avoid total insanity.
It appears we are headed for another period of darkness in national politics.
It won't be our first...

ARTICLES OF FAITH


Faith is a priceless treasure which some would invest in money and power, seeking private gain. Others of us invest in a vision of a world which may yet come to be: a world of...

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Regarding one aspect of this issue, which is the expansion of winery events, a somewhat reasonable argument is that the small, local wineries that don't have national distribution need other ways to...

I think the idea Tom Lynch has raised, of allowing 2nd units in existing dwellings, or cottages in the back yard... as he says they're doing in Novato, is a great way to create more housing. It...

Second Life


My uncourageous life
doesn’t want to go,
doesn’t want to speak,
doesn’t want to carry on,
wants to make its way
through stealth,
wants to assume

Communities of Character
NOV. 27, 2015
David Brooks-The New York Times

We live in an individualistic age. As Marc J. Dunkelman documents in his book “The Vanishing Neighbor,” people tend to have...

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The following letter, written by Helen Shane, on behalf of Sebastopol Tomorrow, was sent to the Board of Supervisors and published in this week's Sonoma West. The Board is scheduled to discuss these...

Recently, Barry posted a Press Democrat article about changes happening with the California State Grange. Unfortunately, I and most Grangers I know felt that article did not accurately tell the story...

My house is kind of funny. There’s two bathrooms and it’s kind of weird because the front bathroom is, well, near the front of the house. From the outside, you see a great big window and what’s...

I am very opposed to cruelty to animals or people for that matter and at the same time I feel that most vegans and animal rights folk are coming from a pain and death free world that just does not...

OK, I'm going to weigh in for the first time. I just moved to Santa Rosa from Boston, and I love it here (especially the kinder, gentler culture). I also knew there would be some adjustments. What I...

Behind Palm Drive Hospital's Closing Part II: Wells Fargo Bank & the Shutdown Playbook

How A Bondholder-Friendly Shutdown Playbook Secretly Sunk Our Hospital

By Jonathan Greenberg
For...

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Join Daily Acts and hundreds of Sonoma County residents as we rise and shine for the 2014 Community Resilience Challenge!

Formerly the 350 Home and Garden Challenge, Daily Acts requests...

Jbox -- Maybe you can explain it to me...but do you really think the quality of the conversation on this forum is enhanced by you asking people to go away and calling them an "idiot" for expressing...

Well, I suppose that couldn't hurt. But if we are going to go there then there is no safe level of just living. We're all going to die.

With the effects of radiation, how radiation damages...

It hardly seems that male chromosomes and a penis would be a necessary factor in this job. In fact, it is clearly illegal to require them. the same thing could be sought with the wording "two...

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My first guest for the Poem from Here series is my friend Nick Ferentinos:



Me and Victor and the Deer


She was trapped on the rocks,
Her hindquarters sunk in the icy surf,
When Victor...

Operation: Whole Foods Hidden Camera GMO Sting - Bait Organic, Switch to GMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR9H7NgOLBQ&feature=player_embedded

According to this video by Organic Spies, Whole...

To me, it seems one of the most important things we can do is to sit down together, share our truth and practice hearing and understanding each other. Below is some of what I've come to in pondering...

We need to intervene in these situations! I was once on a long bus ride and an old man was sitting on the side where the sun was hitting his tender bald head. His wife was holding up a magazine to...

Touched by An Angel

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into...

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CVS proposal knocked down
https://sonomawest.com/articles/2011/06/17/sonoma_west_times_and_news/news/doc4df92eb0d3a2a614238649.txt
Planning...