“You’ll notice the very energy of the vortex makes that system of yours evolve and change and soon it’s not working that great for you. The vortex makes you let go of it. What’s next? I don’t know. You walk, you hike the trails, you talk with your widening circle of friends. Soon it starts becoming more clear, the next arm of the spiral dance.”
“Can we open up to our world as completely as William Blake did? Can we see the transcendent in our everyday existence? The perfection in a world that seems so horribly imperfect? This takes inner work and letting go of our preconceived notions about what constitutes reality.”
A Ukrainian-born violinist and music teacher now living in Ashland has a goal of raising $100,000 through a GoFundMe site to channel funds to Ukrainian relief efforts in Germany and provide aid to residents in the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
The chair of the Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission is calling for an expedited reply to a memo that City Manager Joe Lessard sent to City Attorney Katrina Brown in mid-February asking for clarification about the city manager’s oversight of APRC.
A couple who met after losing a home and a business in the Camp and Almeda fires have opened a used bookstore in Ashland’s Railroad District.
“Three years in the making, this note-perfect, narrated musical journey of the quintessential folk-rock band of the ’70s, soaringly revives the magic of these four master musicians and their heavenly, complex three- and four-part harmonies that wove together haunting melodies between sailing guitar riffs.”
A former Ashland City Council member has challenged incumbent U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden for the Democratic senatorial nomination, with a platform of addressing social ills by reducing U.S. population growth.
What Russia is perpetrating in Ukraine defies understanding, and all but requires a suspension of disbelief: the unprovoked military invasion of a sovereign country. Who among us has not been deeply moved by the remarkable courage, the grim tenacity and the extraordinary resistance of the Ukrainian people in the name of democracy and freedom?
“Let us all spread kindness, and become aware of the joy we can bring to others with a sincere compliment.”
“We’re now in the season of Lent. What are the self-disciplines of Lent? In the pre-Vatican II church of my youth, the salient one was fasting. Fasting need not be only about self-discipline. It also can be a prompt for mindfulness.”
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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