Inner Peace: The furry path to finding inner peace
One of the surest paths to inner peace, wellness and longevity is hopping into your lap and licking your face — your dog or cat. Most households here in the Rogue Valley include furry kids, because...
View ArticleCreating a peaceful world
Creating a peaceful world begins with each of us. To enhance this idea requires knowledge of one’s true self and one’s natural contribution towards world peace. Socrates expressed the idea that an...
View ArticleInner Peace: 'God has no religion'
“God has no Religion.”—Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi This phrase resonates with many people, both religious and non-religious. It seems to be a unifying concept in a world of religious separateness. I...
View ArticleInner Peace: Surviving the ambush
Inner peace is so much more to me than spiritual practice. Or should I say spiritual practice comes in many forms? Sometimes living dangerously is spiritual practice. Surviving extreme danger leads one...
View ArticleSee either love — or a call for love
The United Nation’s International Day of Peace is Saturday, Sept. 21. Imagine all the people in all nations of the world stopping for 24 hours to think about peace!Peace with other countries, counties,...
View ArticleWhy do we seek inner peace (Part III)?
Part I was in the Saturday, April 8 Tidings entitled “Peace is Never Piecemeal” and Part II was in the Aug. 22 Tidings with the basic message “stop all theory and search of it and you will surely...
View ArticleInner Peace: Looking for love in all the wrong places
Love, love, love, love, love, love.Next to the word “god,” it is hard to imagine such an overused yet misunderstood concept. Yet love is the most written about, talked about, dreamed about, sought...
View ArticleInner Peace: 'Keeping the peace' is not true peace
When my father’s gay identity emerged, mother decided to “keep the peace” and hold our Midwest family together. I grew up in the post-war era of hope and procreation. As the Beatles’ burst onto the...
View ArticleInner Peace: Learning the value of thresholds
Arriving in Ashland some time ago, I was completely relying on Grace. I was in the dreaded midlife transition, a long purview of the past inundating me with questions about meaning. I was completely...
View ArticleInner Peace: This is my autumn
This is my autumn: Our trees starting to turn to brilliance, my life changing too. I no longer expect the days to go on and on. I am moving toward my final yielding. I recently celebrated my 80th...
View ArticleInner Peace: Appreciation is all you need
Appreciation is the is the magic formula you’ve been seeking.— AbrahamAs people walk down their spiritual path they run into many diverse spiritual tools, each with its own specific purpose. Some of...
View ArticleCar created campground demand
The invention of the automobile required the building of better roads and highways as the number of cars in America increased from 8,000 in 1900 to 40 million by 1930. Touring motorists packed food,...
View ArticleAs It Was: Omar's — Ashland's first public bar
Omar’s, Ashland’s oldest restaurant and first public cocktail lounge, opened in 1946. But what many don’t know is that it got its name by accident.Omer and Hazel Hill, who had run Hill’s Café at...
View ArticleFighting prohibition on the Southern Oregon coast
Oregon adopted Prohibition in 1914, six years before the national law. Although illegal, private production and distribution of alcoholic beverages continued in order to satisfy demand. Many stills...
View ArticleJackson County's first home demonstration agent
Growing up at the turn of the last century, Ann McCormick knew two worlds. Raised on a small Oregon farmstead with six siblings, she knew the ways of the old pioneers, but Ann was a 20th century woman...
View ArticleSisters of Providence overcame obstacles to open hospital
Making ends meet in the health care system is not a new problem. It was a way of life for the Sisters of Providence, a handful of resourceful Catholic nuns who, in 1912, opened Sacred Heart Hospital in...
View ArticleAs It Was: Early agriculturists experimented with almond trees
Almonds are among the first trees to blossom in Oregon’s Rogue Valley, often blooming while snow still coats the surrounding hills. Ethnobotanist Donn L. Todt and anthropologist Nan Hannon have written...
View ArticleAs It Was: SOU president set cultural diversity as a goal
In 1968, one of the goals of Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon College, in Ashland, Oregon, was to bring cultural diversity to the school now known as Southern Oregon University....
View ArticleGold Hill's Centennial Bridge lives on
The wooden Centennial Bridge located upstream from the railroad bridge south of Gold Hill lasted for 35 years. Constructed in 1876 by Thomas Chavner, the founder of Gold Hill, the Centennial continued...
View ArticleAs It Was: Indian agent sees reservation improvements in 1897
In condescending, racially tinged language typical of the times, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 1897 how the federal agent in charge of the Klamath Indian Reservation, Maj. C.E. Worden, was...
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