The woman in the blue coat (Part 1)
Certainly there isn’t a soul in Ashland who would have wanted Tasha (not her real name), a 42-year-old woman with a developmentally delayed disability, to be on our streets on her own during the recent...
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(Continued from Part 1, Jan. 27, A4)I asked Tasha if I could give her a ride to the Starbucks inside of Safeway. It was 7:15 a.m. The Ashland Resource Center, physically located next to Safeway, opened...
View ArticleLove is calling — Will you pick up?
Love is calling. It is a pure omnipresent and omnipotent love. A love so rich, divine and pure; a love you can trust; a love that is unconditional. This love nurtures and pampers you. It accepts who...
View ArticleBeethoven: The creative genius in everyone
Among other famous winter birthdays we find Ludwig von Beethoven. Even if you don't love his music, it is undeniable that the man gave the world a great gift — soaring music in so many different genres...
View ArticleA life lesson in acceptance of negativity
The mediocre teacher tells.The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates.The great teacher inspires.— William Arthur Ward I was a freshman at the University of Delaware in 1954, where...
View ArticleInner Peace: A life well lived
It seems that the world wants us to measure our life against some predetermined set of standards. We learn this at an early age. We learn our initial values from our parents, schools, religions, and...
View ArticleFinding life in the gaps between thinking
Walking is something I have done all my life. Unquestionably, it is recommended for all ages, but as we age, it is even more important.The old adage "move it or lose it" is true for all humans...
View ArticleInner Peace: Crossing over into the light
A woman in her 80s came to see me recently for a clairvoyant reading. She began by describing a recent dream: She is in a dilapidated, dark house with faded oak paneling, and she doesn’t like the house...
View ArticleInner Peace: In the fox holes of life, ‘I Am There’
Easter and Passover join hands next week. Passover and Good Friday fall on March 30 and Easter on April 1.Jesus always takes center stage for Easter. For years I had problems with the concept of Jesus...
View ArticleInner Peace: Kindness is at the heart of everything we do
Holmes Park Hospice House is a miracle. Ten years ago it was a dream. Today its development conforms to the theory of evolution of Jean de Lamarck: “Organisms become transformed by their effort to...
View ArticleInner Peace: What’s your operating system?
We live in a world of screens: television screens, computer screens, tablet screens, smart phone screens, GPS screens in our cars — and the list keeps growing. Each type of device has an operating...
View ArticleInner Peace: Becoming ourselves at mid-life
We may be able to go for years without having to confront our woundedness, but it lies there always as a kind of shakiness in our foundations.—J.T. HauleMidlife is a place where many of us blow fuses....
View ArticleHerb Rothschild: A second beginning
Immediately after the November 2016 election, I discontinued my weekly column for this newspaper. From writing Relocations I had derived pleasure, and from my readers encouragement. But Trump’s...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild: Who is the enemy?
Last May, on two consecutive Monday evenings, I viewed the six episodes of “A Force More Powerful,” a documentary about the efficacy of nonviolent direct action campaigns, which originally aired on PBS...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: How we really live
In my previous column I identified our oppressor as our culture, shaped by laissez-faire capitalism, which posits competition as our natural condition and the iron law of winners and losers. I urged us...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Is it a global free-for-all?
Last week I looked at driving our cars to test the validity of the pervasive assumptions of our culture — we compete with each other for the good things in life, and there must always be winners and...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: A frightening idea
If the mission of our military were to defend us from attack by hostile forces, it would be impossible to justify its present size, weaponry and deployment. Those are dictated primarily by the quest...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Loyalty oath returns
When I was a teaching assistant at Harvard, I had to sign a loyalty oath. The same was true when I took a full-time position at LSU. This trademark of the McCarthy era had been deemed constitutional by...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: A class act
Among the numerous privileges with which I was endowed, being white and male were two. Helpful as they were, I don’t think they were determinative in smoothing my way to worldly success. After all,...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: More on class and race
Reader unhappiness with last week’s column prompted some searching conversations. I’m pleased. When I get no pushback, I worry that, like MSNBC, I’m simply reinforcing your current opinions.My focus...
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