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[•JUNES GARDEN’ In Celebration of the New Millennium Last spring I found a sapling, only a few inches tall, growing amongst the daffodils When the buds formed leaves I realized it was an apple tree Each fall I spread the decayed organic matter that comes from the compost pile throughout the garden which helps to protect the plants during the winter and adds nutrients I remembered a vast amount o f apple peelings I ’d added to the compost the year before The peelings had come from a box o f apples a friend had gathered from a Gravenstien apple tree that had been planted over 50 years ago in the Willamette valley By fall the sapling had grown to a foot tall When I made plans for this year’ s garden in my new 2000 year garden calendar, I noted the date I ’d found the small tree in the spring o f 1999 I thought what better way to celebrate the beginning o f the new century than to leave this sapling to grow amongst the daffodils "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. " - Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back') THE DUEBER’S SANDPIPER SQUARE SANDPIPER SQUARE A Gift Store fo r the Entire Family 436-2271 Women 's Boutique z if o , 436-1718 S h o r e |Ä N .W . V IL t^ Q ¿ Í> © H T R E C asual D in in g O v e rlo o k in g the Hestucca R iver Finest Shell CoQfafflfflin the Northwest 436-9350 Spirits • Hot Sandwiches fresh Seafood Dinners • Home Baked Desserts (5 0 3 ) 9 6 5 -6 7 2 2 SANDPIPER SQUARE ARPExNTRY Comfortable, Classy Clothing fo r Men & Women SANDPIPER SQUARE 436-2366 436-2723 nORTH IR R S T T IIM I K H C tf Home Gift Boutique DUEBER FAMILY STORES y4 pacific c it y , oreqoh Little B it o f the Beit o f Everything "When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -Goethe (1749-1832) <Sohi6fjb^00cL TRILLIUM NATURAL WOOS 4§ ’ Citu 3» T/ < A W ith all the ruction and hoopla surrounding the coming o f the second m illenium , I guess your Professor is obligated to make some comment regarding the event. I f I were a Berber tribesman or a Chinese peasant, it might just wash by without much effect. Like it or no, those o f us o f Western European descent, steeped in the Judeo-Christian Tradition, must give a nod to its arrival I've always been slightly unsettled about the notion o f time Kalpas, epochs, aeons, centuries, mandalas, ages, years, periods, hours, minutes, light-years, what's a soul to make o f it all? Perhaps I should be amped up and quivering in every fiber o f my being, poised to take the first footsteps into a new world, a peaceful and harmonious place unlike the old, a snake shedding its skin like the world serpent or the Phoenix rising from a charred plain. Somehow I find m yself skeptical and dubious. The publicity surrounding the event smells vaguely like the 1984 O lym pic Games in Los Angeles, a jingoist event orchestrated by the inheritors o f the Disney W orld Dream. We Westerners like measurements and order. We cipher and tally up minutes and hours like drudge bean counters, shifting beads on the abacus o f our lives. Our very notion o f "time," supposes linearity, a continuum with a vector either forward or back. We have a "past," a sentimental time giving shape to our "present," and a "future," which is im plicitly better and more promising in our cultural vision. Time is like a long straight highway vanishing into the nether. We clim b onto the tarmac, journey stumblingly down the road fo r a life span, then crumple corporeally into the ditch. Other world folks see endlessly recurring and repetitive cycles, rolling over infinitely. Still others view existence as an enveloping constant or an ongoing present moment. Hell, I don't know what to think! I do like to think o f our concept o f "time" as analagous to surveying or navigating. Confronted with a vast tract o f natural world, we creatures began imposing artificial metes and bounds, making wilderness tenable, shaping the unknown to human size. W ithout an accurate chronograph, navigation becomes impossible. W ithout surveys, seas and landforms remain inchoate matter, amorphous and too grand for human scale. I guess all this rumagging around is by way o f saying I don't know quite what to do on this m idnight o f December 31 st, in the Year o f Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine! I f I were Chinese, this coming Year o f the Dragon, commencing February 5th, would be the 4,698th year. No problem there. A nice fiery dragon would bode well fo r the next line o f days. Electronics, machinery, and Christianity have unsettled many among us. Stopping at the bank a few weeks ago, I encountered a disturbing circumstance. A pitiable elderly woman huddled in a bank cubicle, raving and sobbing. Television, doom-sayers, and news broadcasts had left her in a classic state o f fear and trembling. The bank tellers couldn't still her fears. "What w ill become o f us!" she bleated. "You're lucky this doesn't happen often," I suggested to the young teller. "Oh, but it does!" she told me, whispering. "This is the fifth or sixth time this month!" • Oh, dear, I thought to myself. So it's come to this! M y friend, John Dube, told me he's established his own tradition. Every New Year's Eve he sits on his chopping block in the yard and contemplates life. I generally take a walk on the beach. That should serve this year as it has most others. "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” - Jimi Hendrix 'The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of "happiness” by John F. 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