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These artistic men live outdoors and are
completely invigorated with respect for these
women. These men go out of their way to
pray and meditate to Gaia or “Great Mother
Spirit.” A Swiss psychedelic psychiatrist
on YouTube who goes by the name of
“Dominique Beatnik” has described such
women as having “big hairy bushy” features,
citing the famous cartoonist Robert Crumb’s
Yeti woman series, and specifi es a local artist
man who lives in the mountains and forests
of Oregon where he is either worthy of being
with a beautiful sasquatch, if not already
there, making love to her!
Stephen Charles Arthur
Eugene
HARASSED AND MISTREATED
I am a senior citizen, longtime resident
of Eugene, dog lover and owner, and want
to alert my neighbors as to how our public
dollars are being spent. My mini schnauzer
(20 pounds) and I were walking one of our
usual routes in our neighborhood when an
“animal control” truck came into view. My
dog had been off-leash for a few minutes
while I picked up after him. As soon as I
saw the truck I put him back on-leash — as
he always is around other dogs and children.
The “offi cer” (Berry) stopped me
anyhow and proceeded to harass me about
a prior interaction he thought he’d had
with me. He immediately threatened to call
for police intervention. I became fearful
and continued walking toward a neighbor/
friend’s house. He followed me in his
truck for 10 blocks. Soon after I arrived
at my safe house, two patrol cars showed
up and three police offi cers spent an hour
investigating me and my little dog, who
has a current license and is completely
under my control. I am a threat to no one
and have zero convictions.
If I can be so mistreated and harassed
by public employees working for the city,
I fear for what my home has become. I
believe city workers should be spending
their working time more wisely, don’t
you? And the next time you hear from
The March 31st deadline for health insurance is coming fast.
That’s why we’re coming to your neighborhood with the
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city offi cials that we don’t have enough
police presence, question the truth of that
statement!
Shelley Z. Klappholz
Eugene
WHAT IS LOCAL?
I rent out a widget. I used to own
the widget and use it myself, but then I
upgraded to a newer widget that better
served my needs. I didn’t want to part with
my old widget so now I rent it out. When
my widget was fi rst built, it was of the
highest quality available at the time and
I enjoyed using it for my own purposes.
And for many years other people, mostly
itinerant students, enjoyed the use of my
widget as well. But lately some members
of my global village (albeit from a little
farther away that many might consider
“local”), have used local builders and
purchased local materials to build a newer,
more comfortable, more energy-effi cient
widget.
And now I can’t seem to rent my
widget. I was here fi rst, and while my
widget isn’t of the highest quality and
isn’t what the consumer wants anymore,
why should a non-local member of my
global village come here and be able to
rent his widget when mine is still for
rent. It’s not fair! Is it? The conversation
of “out-of-state” builders and “too much
student housing” and the construction of
PK Park and subsequent disuse of Civic
Stadium and the myriad other examples of
this insufferable provincialism makes me
laugh or cry, I cannot decide.
What is local? What is a global
community? Should I only sell other types
of widgets I create locally? I employ 21
people in 10 different states. Should I
have made them all uproot their families
and move to Eugene to keep everything
local? Or does local include my fellow
countrymen and does the global village
supersede buying local? I think I will either
have to upgrade my widget or maybe I
should tear down my widget to be able
to compete with all the new widgets that
consumers prefer.
Mark Sixel
Sixel Consulting Group, Eugene
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS
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when and where we’ll be in your neighborhood.
When we humans succeed in temporar-
ily quieting our pesky, dominant, rational
thinking mind and relax ourselves, we can
learn to become more consciously aware of
the power of enjoyment. The three energy
frequencies of awakened doing are accep-
tance, enjoyment and enthusiasm. Now
we can develop a sensitivity to feel certain
things or to know intuitively without being
able to explain exactly how we know.
Through the power of the heart-mind,
plus the power of marijuana effi cacy, I
can and will take the necessary steps in
becoming the highly conscious pot-smoking
dude I want to be and the world needs.
Joe Canfi eld
Eugene
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