Inner Peace: Be mindful and meditate
The ultimate value of life depends uponawareness and the power of contemplation.— AristotleAs you read these words, take a deep breath and begin to notice the sensations as you exhale. Feel the air as...
View ArticleSpirituality found in cleaning up
As a teenager and even into my mid-20s my bedroom typically looked like a tornado had hit it. Shirts and pants lay in sad, crumpled heaps. Shoes and socks were separated from their matching...
View ArticleEnd of life issues not easily solved
You might have recently read about a very difficult situation affecting a person with dementia. She had made her wishes known that she did not want to be fed when the dementia progressed. When the time...
View ArticleAging Happens: Adult Protective Services plays a vital role
(Part 1 of 2)Many years ago, I had gotten a call from Adult Protective Services (APS) regarding an older man who was in really bad shape. His family member was supposedly taking care of him in his own...
View ArticleAging Happens: Making use of Adult Protective Services, Part 2
In my last column (Nov. 9, "Adult Protective Services plays a vital role"), you read about the important role that Adult Protective Services (APS) plays in our community. Here are the remaining set...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Commentary
Part OneOf late I’ve been thinking of Elie Wiesel, who passed away this summer. He was 87.He spent his life bearing witness to an experience so horrific that it defies understanding and ultimately...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Is it possible Trump could win?
Someone asked me this morning, “You don’t think Trump will win, do you?” I found myself hesitating, not immediately responding with, “Absolutely not!” Finally, I said, “I just can’t imagine — not if...
View ArticleChris Honoré: ‘History doesn’t repeat itself’
Mark Twain once said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Which led me to think of Donald Trump. We’ve seen his like before, an individual standing stage center practicing the art...
View ArticleChris Honoré: The Ralph Nader syndrome
The millennials are those 18- to 35-year-olds who are now the largest age group in our country. There are some 75.4 million millennials in the U.S., surpassing in number the 74.9 million baby boomers,...
View ArticleChris Honore: Mike Pence — defending the indefensible
Mike Pence, former governor of Indiana (he withdrew to join Donald Trump on the Republican ticket), was raised in a Catholic family and served as an altar boy. He became a born-again Christian in...
View ArticleChris Honore: Donald Trump: Once again unshackled
Last Thursday I listened to a speech delivered in West Palm Beach, Florida, by Donald Trump at one of his political rallies. He was furious and spoke without restraint. If he had taken off a shoe and...
View ArticleChris Honore: Trump: ‘This election is rigged’
By now you have heard Donald Trump riffing to anyone who will listen that if he loses the coming election, well, it’s because the outcome was “rigged.” On occasion he uses the word “stolen.” He accuses...
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So this long and arduous presidential campaign is nearing the end. Finally. I have often felt I’ve had to suspend my disbelief as week after week we’ve found ourselves in the weeds of “deportation...
View ArticleChris Honore: Issues that didn’t make the cut
October was filled with surprises that kept the press flush with material and the two presidential campaigns running out of fingers to point at each other. It’s all been head-shaking remarkable.But...
View ArticleChris Honore: Our national ‘perfect storm’
Regarding the outcome of the presidential election, it still remains a puzzle that continues to nag and perplex and likely creates for some a sense of political vertigo.What happened? How could the...
View ArticleChris Honore: The basket of deplorables
Back in September, Hillary Clinton, giving a speech at a fundraising gala event in New York City, said the following: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s...
View ArticleChris Honore: Suffer the little children
An old African Kikuyu proverb says, “When the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” Nowhere are these words more chillingly insightful than now in Aleppo, Syria. The elephants are fighting...
View ArticleLumber baron started anew in Green Springs
Starting out at age 17 as a horse trader, James Everett Henry spent a lifetime building a lumber empire, buying forests in his native New Hampshire, building lumber and paper mills and power stations...
View ArticleAs It Was: Mrs. Wah Chung's life in Ashland
The everyday lives of Chinese residents in the State of Jefferson in the late 19th century is not well known. But Mabel Roach Dunlop's remembrance of Mrs. Wah Chung's life in Ashland gives some clues....
View ArticleEarly initiatives advocate favored self-government
As Oregonians vote in this year’s presidential elections, they might ponder the work of William Simon U’Ren, an early advocate of Oregon election reform. U’Ren, born in Wisconsin, settled in Milwaukie,...
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