THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2018
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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
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LOLA
DILBERT
SIX CHIX
BIZARRO
MUTTS
NON SEQUITUR
BABY BLUES
WIZARD OF ID
ZITS
ROSE IS ROSE