Betsy Lydle Smith Two stars joined the night sky this week shining brightly from the east. They ascended one by one with different facets of gemlike qualities, strong and courageous, their truth shone forth. They raised us up to know our brilliance, lives well-lived, with love, joy, and wonder. One sang and danced, the other…
Category: Features
October 2026, Features
Spotlight on Advertiser: Commitment to the Community
At J. Warren Funeral Services and Mountain View Cemetery, our commitment has always been to serve families with compassion, dignity, and care. As the needs of our community continue to change, we are proud to be making improvements at Mountain View Cemetery and expanding our services to provide families with more choices for honoring and…
October 2026, Features
Living Retired: Mastering Doing Nothing
Gary Chalk Health experts have long suggested that Living Retired may lead to a sedentary lifestyle. They recommend we keep active socially, mentally, and physically. This is why many retirees socialize playing cards with their friends, read to keep their brain active, and play pickleball so they can gripe about the emergency room wait times.…
October 2026, Features
Word of the Month: Animist
David Zapatka In a recent conversation with a dear friend about my belief that consciousness is universal and present in all matter, I commented that all of nature and all matter are alive with some degree of awareness and consciousness. This led to “There is no ‘dead’ matter, blind or unconscious law in the cosmos…
October 2026, Features
This Month in Military History: Cotton Picking Prisoners of War
Martin Bender The German Officer commanded “Aktioin, Sieg heil.” The German prisoners of war quickly fell into formation at attention. With a return “Heil Hitler” salute, each POW shouldered a cotton sack. The work party, one of many that October morning in 1944 in Arizona, was formed and ready to attack a local cotton field.…