Opinion

Arizonans were caught off guard when they heard that the Santa Cruz National Heritage Area had recently been designated by Congress and signed into law at the White House on March 12, 2019. Suddenly, we found ourselves living in a 3,300 square mile landscape that was nationally recognized for its distinctive natural and multi-cultural heritage. […]

Years ago I had an experience of oneness and connection with all of life. I belonged to everything and everything belonged in me. I felt connected to life in all its forms, no longer separate from the wind, the air, the trees and the earth.  In this expansive belonging my ego-based identity of being a […]

“Clique” – A small group of people, with shared interests or other features in common, who spend time together and do not allow others to join them. Can also be groups or “packs” of people. Most commonly seen in high-school students. I’ve seen this. I’ve lived this and currently am dealing with this, but not […]

Representative Ilhan Omar is outspoken; a woman; and a Muslim. Three strikes. She’s out. Omar receives beaucoup de flak for asserting that Zionism unduly influences U.S. foreign policy. She has only to open her mouth for kneejerk choruses of “anti-Semitism” to erupt. But much of what she says is clearly true. You’d have to be […]

Judges Need to Follow State Rules While your article, ‘What’s Next for Keith Barth” did an enviable job of covering most of the facts, there are significant parts of the formal state judicial complaint that I feel need further discussion.  While the underlying judicial political violations might appear trite to the untutored eye, this is […]

We all have a few undies we wouldn’t want the paramedics to see us in. Such are the panties I’m wearing now. Thank God I left a week’s worth at my destination, on my last visit. While packing this time, I left all my decent underwear in a plastic bag – somewhere. Who knows? What […]

Death is the door to illumination. As those of us left behind, struck with sorrow, disbelief, regret, and much more, we touch our own death by losing people we deeply love.  Death is a reminder that we hold so much in our hearts, and when we swim in these deep waters, sometimes all we can […]

Electric workers repair power lines in Patagonia during the recent snow storm. Photo by Bradley Sander I’ve lived in Arizona my whole life, in Patagonia for half of it, and in all my years I have never seen it snow as long as it did that fateful Friday in February. Snowmageddon started out like any […]