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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2018 FEATURES TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE Vegetarian at barbecues Dear Annie: With summer Well, fast-forward to a year in full swing, we are prepar- later, and we are invited back to ing for and going to lots of bar- the same client’s house for the becues. I am always grateful Fourth. He is one of my hus- when our family is invited over band’s largest clients, and my for a barbecue on a nice sum- husband really feels that we mer night. The problem is that should go, but I’m hesitant. I I’m a vegetarian. Every don’t want to be rude, DEAR time we go to a friend’s but I also don’t want to barbecue, I can’t find spend the whole night ANNIE anything to eat. I usu- with an upset stomach. ally just politely say — To Take One for the it’s fine and take a bun Team or Not or some of the sides (if Dear TTOFTTON: they are available). The You already took one hosts are usually under- for the team last year standing and accept my when you were sick Annie Lane choice. for the entire evening Creators Syndicate Inc. Last summer, we because you ate meat. were invited to my hus- One option would be to band’s client’s house. When I bring your own veggie patty to said “no, thank you” to his off- the party. Explain to your hus- the-grill burger — in what I band’s client that you loved the thought was a gracious way — way he grilled that burger last he got very huffy with me. I said year, and tell him you would I am a vegetarian. And he said, like for him to grill your veg- “Oh, come on, it’s the Fourth gie burger. That way, you’d of July! Have a little meat.” be complimenting his grill- Thinking about what a big cli- ing style and not insulting him ent this was for my husband, I while also not upsetting your said he was right and took the stomach. burger. Needless to say, I was Dear Annie: This is in sick all evening. I told my hus- response to “Doing a Life Sen- band that I would never do that tence With No Parole.” I was again, and he agreed. in the same situation as this 3C By Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc. 57-year-old lady. I was stuck in an empty marriage, and my soul was very unhappy. I also felt as if I had to stay for financial rea- sons and the children. Plus, I was just plain scared to leave. The best thing I did for myself was take night courses two nights a week to become a counselor, even though I already worked full time during the day. I thought I needed to learn how to help people find fulfillment. The more I edu- cated myself the more I real- ized I needed this course for my own life. I left my 31-year marriage and have been with a wonderful man for the past six years. If you don’t respect your- self and set the bar high, then your children won’t respect you and they will end up choosing the same life. — Still Have 30 Years Left Dear Still Have 30 Years Left: To anyone who is unhappy with his or her current circumstances but feels it’s “too late,” let this be a lesson. The time is always right to begin living your best life. I wish you many fulfilling decades. ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your words and actions follow your heart. To work on changing your speech and movement will be arduous. But you can change your heart in an instant, and all your words and moves can’t help but follow from there. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There are many ways to tackle destructive emotions, none more effective than dipping into the spiritual aspects of you — not in a religious sense, necessarily, but in the sense that your spirit is beyond these temporal feelings. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have been known to keep secrets from yourself, but then there are other parts of you that aren’t so great at this, and they’ll needle and nudge and hint today until all of you really gets it. CANCER (June 22-July 22). The challenges are too big for one person. But the biggest chal- lenge of all isn’t solving the problem; it’s learning to ask one another for help and humbling ourselves to accept it. The biggest challenge is cooperation. employed when its object seems, for whatever reason, unlovable. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Homer wrote in “The Iliad,” “Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.” There are certain relationships (but not all!) that are best begun in obedience. It works today, anyway, to set things off in a promising direction. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Every rela- tionship that has stood the test of time has good and bad things about it. Disagreements and disappointments have come up. That’s part of it, and if not, it’s not a real relationship. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Humor represents a meeting of minds and sensibilities. It represents shared joy and shared suffering. The humor you share with your loved ones is a special and sacred thing. Enjoy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Happy people help others. People who help others are happy. You’ll find this to be true in your own life, as you are drawn to lend a hand today and you happen to get a joyful lift in the process. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You are complex. When you’re around people who don’t see your many facets, it doesn’t make you smaller, but it might make you feel smaller, especially if their pres- ence makes you forget about the many, many other sides of you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). When you were younger you felt it necessary to distinguish yourself, to stand out for your individuality and to know the ways in which you were special. But now that you know, you’re more focused on universal values. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Relationships take work, and someone always does more of it. It’s not necessarily the one who cares more. More likely, it’s the one who is stronger and more able — more adept at the actions of showing love. TOMORROW’S BIRTHDAY (June 30). This is a year to take hold of the situation in a big way. Don’t go searching for meaning; decide what it means and build up from there. Your leadership in your own life will lead to leadership in groups. There’s very important business to handle with love in October. Older people will change your world for the better. Cancer and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 1, 3, 33, 38 and 31. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Anyone can be com- passionate toward those they already love. It could be argued that it’s not really compassion. Compassion is the kind of love that must be FRANK AND ERNEST BLONDIE THATABABY SALLY FORTH PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN B.C. LOLA DILBERT SIX CHIX BIZARRO MUTTS NON SEQUITUR BABY BLUES WIZARD OF ID ZITS ROSE IS ROSE
