By Will Stone, Manzanita The councilors and the City Manager gathered around the conference table to discuss the pressing issue of how to pay for a new City Hall building. Attending via Zoom call were several consultants hired to give valuable (and expensive) advice when needed or possible. The leaders were a colorful group. There was Bob, the old-timer who…
Category: Perspectives
Manzanita Musings: Resolutions – They Aren’t Just For the New Year Anymore! (OP/ED)
By Kim Rosenberg We are always dealing with history–our personal history, our family’s history, our nation’s history. And when it comes to the city hall in Manzanita, our town’s history. Whether or not we agree about the path taken for city hall, we’re on it now and we’ve invested a ton of resources. We’ve gone through changes in councilors, the…
RANDOM BYTES: Perception
Capitalism’s greatest worry is the ease with which ignorant people become wealthy. Couple this with a government where money equals power; a supposed legal interpretation of the Constitution suggesting truth is optional; a populace mostly informed via the greatest propagandist tool (internet) in the history of time; and you will find yourself exactly where we are at. Nevertheless — Vote!…
Rural, urban – what does and doesn’t divide us
By Cara Mico, Assistant Editor Nash, Nicholas, Adjunct Philosophy Instructor at Blue Mountain Community College, facilitated an Oregon Humanities Conversation Project in Tillamook on September 20, 2022. The conversation focused on understanding the urban rural divide and was well attended by equal numbers of people identifying as either rural, urban, or ‘rurban.’ “We live in a time of increasing polarization…
Exploring Toxic Masculinity
by Neal Lemery What is it to be a man in these times? There are a lot of mixed messages, and outright confusing and contradictory “principles” and models for behavior. It is easy to get lost in the wilderness of our social contract. The “#MeToo” Movement and the rhetoric and behavior of popular politicians and popular culture figures send conflicting…
Response to “Call to Action – Curbside Recycling”: Rethink Waste
This is in response to: tillamookcountypioneer.net/call-to-action-curbside-recycling-in-north-county/ Your attention to recycling is commendable. Unfortunately, not all recycling is equal. Commingled is recycling in name only: once different plastics are combined they are difficult and very expensive to separate, and the incidence of contamination by nonrecyclable materials and those that have a little triangle but no market is very high. Consequently, less…
The Gift of Sobriety
By Neal Lemery (12/24/2018) “I know my limit,” one young man kept saying, his bloodshot eyes and pale complexion seemingly at odds with his statement, as he held his energy drink, hands trembling. We were both in line at a store, he and his friends rehashing last night’s alcohol-soaked party. They boasted to each other about last night’s consumption, getting…
CHAKRA SYSTEM Series #7: Our Thoughts Become Things with Third Eye Chakra
By Christy Stumpf, Reiki Master, Certified Crystal & Sound Healing Practitioner, Cosmic Healing NW We are energy moving. Chakras are energy centers located within our body structure that receive and transmit energy between us and the universe that surrounds us. The sixth, or Third Eye Chakra, is the next chakra up in the 7 Chakra system, and it is located…
CHAKRA SYSTEM Series #6: Speak the Truth with Balanced Throat Chakra
By Christy Stumpf, Reiki Master, Certified Crystal & Sound Healing Practitioner, Cosmic Healing NW We are energy moving. Chakras are energy centers located within our body structure that receive and transmit energy between us and the universe that surrounds us. Our Fifth, or Throat Chakra, is the next up on the spinal column. It is located at the throat near…
CHAKRA SYSTEM Series #5: At the Center- The Heart Chakra, All About Love
By Christy Stumpf, Reiki Master, Certified Crystal & Sound Healing Practitioner, Cosmic Healing NW We are energy, as proven by quantum physics. Chakras are energy centers located within our body structure that receive and transmit energy between us and the universe that surrounds us. Our Fourth, or Heart chakra, is the next up on the spinal column. It is located…
