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DUANt YOHNSOM
REAL ESTATE
peace road A ll in all there are some positives and
the usual suspects Pick one, write someone for or
against it, e-mail them i f you can, talk to people
about it. Be creative, be effective, it ’ s fun, it ’s
quick, it ’ s easy, and it ’ s moist and refreshing.
Okay, on to the National level, ugly, ugly,
ugly; oh w ell, it is a duty We know too much
about Dubyah to trust him w ith our hamburger
order let alone our country M o lly Ivins and
Doonesbury have nailed him: A ll hat, no brains. A1
Bore; nice guys finish second. Pat Buchanan, big
hat, big pile o f cow dung; sorry, I m ight enjoy
having a beer w ith Pat more than 1 would w ith most
o f the folks running, but then I ’ ve had a beer w ith
racist homophobes before and enjoyed parts o f it;
it ’s a free country, and nicer than Pat thinks. Ralph
Nader m ight run, well, talk; but that’ s good cause he
talks the truth, not a popular thing in politics.
But Big B ill and L ittle Mac seem to be the guys
who can w in Bradley seems like he m ight really
work i f we put him in the game. M cCain seems
tough and honest, and has a survivor’ s instinct.
Either one could change this country for the better,
but since it looks like the Democrats w ill take back
the House, Bradley would be the most effective.
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easy. In a village like this we have a rare access to
our government: we are our government. Not
everyone runs fo r city council, or is on committees
or goes to meetings, but everyone can make a local
phone call, or see someone in the post office and
have their ideas heard. I ’ m not suggesting you get in
Carmen’ s face when you see her at the Legion, but a
simple, " I ’ d like to talk to you about the Shuttle
when you have some tim e, here’ s my number.
Thank you," would seem to be fair. Then listen and
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speak your piece when the tim e comes. Simple
stuff, being a citizen. Fun too, and very
educational. Oh, and did I mention that it really
works? Think Bottle B ill.
Locals Only:
As most locals are aware, the Chamber o f
Commerce is having troubles o f late. I have been
encouraged to write about the situation. I have
decided to wait until next month after the City has
completed its audit o f the use o f public funds by
the Chamber.
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save the salmon, there is some very creative
thinking going on and as a citizen, you get to be part
o f that. There are meetings going on all over, there
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Lightning got me thinking...
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dredge the M ighty Colum bia from Portland to
Astoria, scraping up 36 inches o f whatever they
find and dumping it o f f shore. This w ill allow even
bigger ships to deliver more stu ff to stu ff starved
Portland. O r something like that. Also on the
agenda these days are plans to undo some previous
mistakes made upstream. Plans to breach several
dams are seriously being debated. In an effort to
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F or A ll V our F eal E state N eeds
Pick one and vote. Done
In the Upper Left region, there are a few
important things that you can look into and have
your opinion as a citizen be heard. Our busy
beavers at the A rm y Corps o f Engineers have
volunteered to do some heavy liftin g for the m u lti
national corporations, as usual. The latest plan is to
is one in Astoria in February, look it up.
A t last back to home. We have a few local
things pending, what’ s going on w ith the grade
school, the shuttle situation, Inspiration Point and
the S-Curves, to name a few. I ’ m sure our new city
manager Helen Westbrook encourages dialogue in
seeking solutions, so that’ s your cue. C all someone
on the transportation or energy committee, tell them
what you think; it ’ s your duty as a responsible
citizen. Call M ayor Hood or chat over your wine
purchase when you catch her at the store, she’ s
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sach: Jupiter’s Rare and Used Books.
O sburn’s Grocery. The Cookie Co.. Coflee Cabafta,
Bill’s Tavern. Cannon Beach Book Co., H ane’s
Bakerie. The Bistro. Midtown Café, Once Upon a
Breese. Copies A Fax. Haystack Video, M ariner
M arket, Eapreaao Bean, Ecola Square A Cleanllne
S u rf
M anzanita: Mother Nature’s Juice Bar,
Cassandra's, M anzanita News A Espresso. A
Nehalem Bay Video
Roekawayr Neptune's Used Books
T illa m o o k : Rainy Day Books A Tillamook Library
Bay C ity: Art Space
Yachats: By-the-Sea Books
Pacific C ity: The River House,
Oceanside Ocean Side Espresso
L in c o ln C ity : Trillium N atural Foods. Driftwood
Library. A Lighthouse Brewpub
N ew port: Oceana Natural Foods. Ocean Pulse Surf
Shop, Sylvia Beach Hotel, A Canyon Way Books
Eugene: Book Mark. Café Navarra. Eugene Public
Library. Friendly St. M arket. Happy Trails.
Keystone Café, Klva Foods. Lane C.C., Light For
M usic, New Frontier M arket, Nineteenth Street
Brew Pub. Oasis Market. Perry's, Red B am Orocery,
Sundance Natural Foods. U o f O, A WOW Hall
C orvallis: The Environmental Center, OSU
Salem : Heliotrope. Salem Library, A The Peace
Store
A storia: KM UN . Columbian Café, The Com m unity
Store. The Wet Dog Cafe. Astoria Coffee Company.
Calé Uniontown. A The River
Seaside: Buck's Book Bam . Universal Video. A
Café Espresso
P ortland : Artichoke Music, Laughing Horse
Bookstore, Act III, Barnes A Noble, Belmonts Inn.
Bibelot A rt Oallery. Bijou Calé, Borders. Bridgeport
Brew Pub, Capt'n Beans (two locations). Center for
the Healing Light. Coffee People (three locations).
Common Grounds Coffee, East Avenue Tavern,
Food Front, Goose Hollow In n, Hot Lipa Pizza, Java
Bay Café. Key Largo. La Patisserie. Lewis A Clark
College. Locate Only, Marco’s Pizza, M arylhurst
College. Mt. Hood CC. Music Millenium. Nature's
(two locations), NW N atural Oas. OHSU Medical
School. Ok! Wives Tales. Ozone Records. Papa
H aydn. PCC (four locations). PSU (two locations).
Reed College. Third Eye. M ultnom a C entral
Library, and most branches A the YWCA.
Ashland: Oaro's Java House. The Black Sheep.
Blue M t. Café. A Rogue River Brewery
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Vancouver, WAi The Den
Longview . WA: The Broadway Oallery
N aselle, W A Rainy Day Artistry
N a h co tta, W A Moby Dick Hotel
D u v a ll, W A Duval) Books
B ainbridge Island, W A Eagle Harbor Book Co.
S e a ttle . WA: Elliot Bay Book Co . Honey Bear
Bakery. New Orleans Restaurant. S till Life In
Frem ont Allegro Coffeehouse. The Last Exit Coffee
House. A Bulldog News
San Francisco, C A City Lights Bookstore
D en ver, Co: Denver Folklore Cente
W ashington. D.C.t Hotel Tabard Inn
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Education Editor Peter Lindsey
June's Garden: June Kroft
Web Wonder Woman/Distribution
Divs/Subscriber'a Sweetheart:
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Bass Player. Bill Uhlig
Ecola Ilshat: Douglas Deur
Environmental News: Kim Bossé
Lower Left Beat: Victoria Stoppiello
Life on the "Other Edge":
Meg Stivison
Local Colour: Ron Logan
Two Drinks Ahead: Danin Peters
Web Mother: Liz Lynch
Essential Services: Ginni Callahan
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Those of you who are like me, middle-
aged or older, probably find yourself gelling out
of bed at least once each night to make a trip to
the bathrmm. This tedious interruption ol a gtxxl
night’s sleep, how ever, pros ides an opportunity
to throw another log in the woodstove, scan the
night sky, and occasionally experience something
you otherw ise would have slept through.
During my trip downstairs the other
night, a big bolt of lightning struck not lar
away. The street lights laded, went out, then after
a minute or so returned. Hail moved in waves in
the circle of street light south of the house,
blanketing the street for the third time in a day.
A gust of wind pushed the hail more fiercely
against the house, rata-tat-tating on the skylight
in our dressing room, then moved on.
The fridge switched on in a way that
implied the electricity had been off momentarily.
I thought nothing of it, and climbed the stairs
back to our bedroom. The digital alarm clock was
blinking redly on and off, 12:05, even though it
had been 12:25 a lew minutes before. So, the
power /wrf been off.
A big Hash of lightning, plus its
accompany ing roar. What is its connection with
the electrical system burping? Is the lightning
finding a sympathetic cousin in the wires that
criss-cross the settlement? Or is lightning a sort
of conspirator, coming through town attempting
to rescue its fellow gang member from the jail
which is our electrical sy stem, where electricity
does prison slave labor for our benefit? Does the
electricity in the lines jump for joy w hen it sees
the face, hears the voice, of lightning, then
switches devices off, then on, in its excitement?
Or is it that lightning and electricity in the lines
are all one system, one btxly of energy , the lines
that snake over the country side and through
cities, the vascular system that radiates from the
heart, lightning?
Recently I heard a brief radio description
of the physics of the aurora borealis, which I've
only seen a few times and at relatively southern
locations. The physics discussion explained that
charged particles from the sun are pulled toward
the earth in concentrated patterns near the earth's
magnetic poles. One comment took me into
space in my mind's eye: Apparently the
astronauts on the space shuttle can see the aurora
from their v antage point, can see the earth's
magnetic field as illustrated by these charged
particles, appearing as blades ol grass streaming
from the earth's poles.
I've seen a photo of the earth from space
with a golden crown of the aurora borealis.
Because I have a philosophical bent—or perhaps
I'm lapping into some ancient source of
primordial myth—I felt that photo showed the
earth w ith a halo. 1 felt awe, inspiration and
hope. My limited study of art history has
exposed me to hundreds of art works showing
saintly figures with haloes; could it be that the
earth itself has a halo, is in fact a heavenly btxly,
has a spirit force of its own?
I've also read of spiritual systems that
refer to auras, energy fields radiating from
individual's bodies that indicate various
conditions or emotions via color—blue for
protection, red for anger, and so on. The photo of
the earth had a halo of gold, a color indicating a
higher spiritual state of being in that system.
Without putting any stock in these musings, I
wonder how it is that these old mcthtxls of
indicating spiritual ascendancy would just happen
to mimic a very earthly phy sical phenomenon?
Allowing my imagination to wander, I
also sec in my mind's eye, a blue earth,
surrounded by a network of electrical storms,
flashing here and there, like Christmas lights on
a strobe, and then think of the internet, now
connected w ith a scries of wires and links that
(lash on and off ever so minutely with each
message.
Wc'vc gone from a world where the only
electricity we experienced was produced by
lightning, and the only light was generated by
the sun, to a world w here we humans
manufacture lightning through a variety of
mcthtxls, then run it through wires to create a
million liny suns in our homes and offices (at
least in the industrialized world). I wonder what
this has done to our sense of wonder, our sense
of place, and txtr appreciation for the everyday
miracles that the earth and sky have always
provided.
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