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Emeritus at University of Washington, Buddhist Review, and publishes regularly and features local guests. The show is It’s Late on Vashon - VCA’s Talk where he taught from 1976 until his in Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma: a chance to get to know, up close and Showish Thing retirement in 2009. He is the author of 16 The Practitioner’s Quarterly. personal, some of our island gems Vashon Center for the Arts books, including Middle Passage which This event is offered at no charge through interviews with host Darragh With Guests Susan McCabe and won the U.S. National Book Award and all are welcome. Register at PSZC. Kennan, and through performances by Maira Kennan for Fiction in 1990, making Johnson org and we’ll send you the Zoom link our amazing local artists. VashonCenterForTheArts.org the second African-American man to and password via email. The show also highlights islanders Monday, March 1 at 8pm receive this prize after Ralph Ellison Please consider a tax deductible in 1953. 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LeRoy Bell will remain because they are preferable Perhaps as a result of this pandemic, to the past, and some will be preferable grocery workers, janitors, maids, garbage simply because we won’t want to get collectors and others will get the respect & His Only Friends caught in a vulnerable position should and the pay that they deserve. another pandemic occur. The effect of remote work means There are massive changes in the that much of our central business district Livestream Concert workforce. Right now, 42% of the infrastructure and services are underused Acclaimed singer and songwriter workforce works remotely and virtually and may remain so. I say this because there and Vashon favorite, LeRoy Bell will from home. Thirty-three percent are is sufficient reason to believe some of the perform a livestream from the Kay White retail, food, entertainment or other pandemic precautions will be maintained, Hall on February 26 at 7pm. service workers, many of whom are and there are obvious economies to be Bell is known as a dynamic performer unemployed because of the pandemic. had by limiting commuting. A large in his own right, but along with long- The remaining 26% are the essential portion of remote workers worked in the time co-writing partner, Casey James, workers who are required to be out and many tall office buildings that make up has also penned many hits recorded by about or in immediate proximity to the the city center. The impact of vacancies the likes of Elton John, The Spinners, people they serve. is already becoming a problem. The The O’Jays, The Temptations, Gladys The people that work from home many restaurants, bars and other service Knight & the Pips, Teddy Pendergrass are largely professionals, managers, and providers that used to serve the city center and many others. Bell and James released financial workers that can perform their employees have lost at least 50% of their three albums: Bell and James (1978), jobs via the internet and their computer. business. I would have thought it would Only Make Believe (1979) and In Black These are the ones that have been lucky be more. and White (1980), and had a number enough to continue with minimal impact After the pandemic, Nicholas Bloom, of singles, the most successful and on their income or lifestyle. The essential economics professor at Stanford expects well-known being “Livin’ It Up (Friday workers are also still bringing in an that a good number of these remote Night)” released on A&M Records. It income, but at great risk to their health workers will continue to work at home reached #15 on the U.S. Hot 100. In 2011, and with the consequent great efforts for at least part or most of the week. This Bell appeared on the American version required to preserve their health and that prospect bodes dramatic changes in land of The X Factor, finishing 8th overall in of their families. The rest who are unable use and transport. Remote work will competition. to work, either because their work is shut no doubt lower demand for office space LeRoy will be backed up by Terry down or because they need to stay home downtown, so there may be little demand Morgan on bass and Ben Smith on to take care of children, are having a very for more highrise office space. Employers Percussion. $10 suggested donation tough time. 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Compost the Loop The Loop’s soy-based ink is good for composting. The Vashon Loop, p. 4 February 18‘ 21 Branded Logs Spiritual Smart Aleck By Mary Tuel Graze, Pray, Nap, Repeat – probably not what the advice folks have oh, and Curse in mind. There is a big snowfall here today, My friend Alice told me that her which is cheering, even though I will not biggest challenge was doing nothing. I be able to get up my driveway for days, get it. not that I want to. Being snowbound is I was pushing myself for months to not that different from isolation, so not be productive with the chores: do the a change. dishes, sweep the floors, do the laundry, Coming up on my one-year sort out stuff so I could send some things anniversary of isolation. That is the paper to Granny’s and some things to the anniversary, right? transfer station. Now that I was isolating Talking with my friend Lynn at home, I finally had the time to get all Carrigan the other day, she said her that sorting and tossing done, right? isolation routine is graze, nap, sleep, I got some of it done. I will keep at it. repeat. My isolation protocol includes I am also at level 900 or so of a phone “pray,” and then “curse.” game to which I am addicted. I have I added cursing, because, boy, do the television schedule for weeknights I. Here alone at home I observe how memorized. Do not come between me often I drop things, run into things, trip and my British murder mysteries. on things (or nothing), lose things, and I have more of a “what the heck” forget things. So, cursing. philosophy these days and I am working I do not mind breaking things, on my doing nothing skills. because I can throw whatever it is out Productivity is overrated. and be relieved of that part of my burden. Yeah, when you cannot go anywhere Sometimes that is what it takes to break or see anyone, or laugh with anyone, the bonds of sentiment. or hug anyone, or sing with anyone, Despair has been knocking on my eating, praying, and sleeping can make door a lot the last few months. Life is hard the time fly. By Sean Malone and John Sweetman anyway, and now it is harder. I do not And cursing, of course. know about you, but I am experiencing How are you getting by in this “Hey! Look what i found!” , Sean augment seasonal jobs, fishing or other Isolation Adjectives: I define myself with pandemic world? yelled out .. endeavors that made a living. words like, “loony,” and “squirrely” and News: Trump was acquitted in his “Ok... coming!” , i said, looking up Well before Sean and I were born, “depressed.” impeachment trial, which was expected. from the edge of the log pile at Portage there were actual ‘log pirates’ who “Lonely” figures large in there, too. Republican Senators had two big reasons beach. made off with whole rafts of logs, but It was my belief last spring that to acquit: they want to be re-elected, and Sean and i had been beachcombing. the development of the “Log Patrol” the pandemic would not be over in six death threats. Sean had decided to build a carport for pretty well stopped this large scale theft months or even a year, or longer, and I Watching videos of what went on his sort of new Toyota which he had just after 1929 , and mostly just loose logs should settle in, but having a reasonable inside the Capitol did not convince acquired after finally wearing out the were ‘repurposed’ or salvaged in the late perspective on a situation is not the same Republican Senators that they needed twenty year old Toyota he had gotten forties and fifties. All of us who lived in as living through the situation. to convict Trump. It made them realize from me. We were looking for some nice Islands knew someone who could supply This is what it is like to be in a plush what might happen to them if they did 6 inch or so cedar drift so we could put a nice few sticks that a small mill could solitary confinement for a year. So far. I not acquit him. something together to accommodate the cut up. The price was always affordable. could not possibly have imagined what O, Republicans. How far you have used, but nice metal roofing he seen on At one time you could easily find a round this would be like, or how it would strayed. ‘Vashon All’ or the local freecycle site. with a brand on almost any beach. My affect me. I clambered up over the jumble of grandfather used a ‘Simpson’ brand for I am thinking of the anchoresses logs and saw immediately what drew a chopping block for years. in the middle ages, women who were Seans attention.. I was telling John about the log walled into little rooms to spend the rest “This is an old boomchain and here branding we did in Ferry County years of their lives in prayer and contemplation. is the real treasure!”. Sean pointed at ago. If I left wood by the side of the road Get In They had a little window into the a big round of log a bit further up and after filling the truck, I always branded church so they could watch mass; they he showed me a much weathered side the log with my initials. I can’t say that got food handed in (and waste handed The Loop where he had cleared enough such that I started the practice; maybe I had seen out) through that window. we could see distinct markings. We someone else do it. 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Not much Send To: Editor@ doors and windows, and plumbing kept an eye out for loose logs which they I could say; except I can’t remember his and kitchens and a heat source, not to vashonloop.com then ‘salvaged’ and accumulated and name. mention the composting toilet and the sold to small local mills.. All beach areas “Sean can’t remember his name.. But sleeping loft. Not the same thing at all. had a few people that found this a way to I can! Gwynn Mason.. He and his brother You must haul your own slops. Marvin ‘Marvelous’ Mason were wood But I digress. pirates of the highest sense of honour! Compost the Loop Isolation life has been hard. I miss The Loop’s soy-based ink Local Weather They would only ‘misappropriate ‘wood people. I especially miss making music is good for composting. www.vashonweather.com in order to give it away to those in need.” Local Rain Totals with people and laughing with people. 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But [email protected] read a bit of fiction into the record in to rename the state of Washington then, that cat-, and time-, killing thing order to get back at Horace Greeley for itself because of the extent of our first I think of all the common, everyday called curiosity creeps in, and the next something he had written in his paper, president’s slave holdings. And so, as phrases and tropes that pass through thing you know you’re halfway through the New York Tribune. Greeley had we look back and then move forward modern daily discourse, I truly detest that article that caught your eye but has made a point of mocking Mr. Hulburd along the timeline, we move past various the two words that form the title here absolutely nothing to do with the reason regarding a bill intended to settle the mileposts that were supposedly allowing the most. It is of course, also the order you sat down there in the first place. issue of government paying out coin us to move beyond our slave owning, that those words are presented in that One of the places I always got stuck redemption for paper money. Greeley racist past. There was the first Black is critical. Forward going might imply was in the letters section. This wasn’t had made disparaging comments about President just a few years back, along forward thinking, which would be fine horrible, since most of the letters were Hulburd’s grasp of economics, and in with the recent election of the first female with me. But going forward is simply a short and easy to get through. The thing order to get revenge and retribution, Black Vice President that seemed to redundancy- one goes forward whether that stuck out most for me here was that Mr. Hulburd wanted a fictional account indicate some progress in that regard. But one proclaims it that way or not. And it many of the writers voicing opinions of Greeley’s ride in a stagecoach from there was that disturbance in the force, is a proclamation that usually proceeds back then could very well have passed Genoa, Nevada to Placerville, California in between, that pointed emphatically whatever it is that one is talking about for some of the writers writing in these read into the congressional record, at the reality that while it seemed we at the time. One can unplug a clock , or days. Many of the problems that existed which at the time was known as the had been going forward all along, we superglue its hands (old school) to its for the ferries back then still persist Congressional Globe. This account had not really been moving forward at face and the sun will still set and rise today. Some voices back then spoke up to was written by one Artemus Ward, a all. I don’t know that we were moving again tomorrow, not yesterday. So on support Island businesses, encouraging comedic author of some reknown. It backward- it seems that in spite all the we go, forward- you don’t have to say others to shop here before going over described Greeley looking ridiculous implied progress as a nation, we seemed it, or turn it into something that needs town. There were complaints about other as he supposedly bounced all around to have gone nowhere at all, thanks to the stating, or repeating, and act like you’re people’s animals and how some people the back of the coach as he implored the now disgraced former president giving actually doing something. just drive too fast out here. It would seem driver to go faster so he would get to his voice and validity to all that bad stuff that There is the whole ‘moving forward’ that in many of these cases, things have speaking engagement that night. There we thought we had moved by. In some thing, which could be placed in the same gone forward without moving forward, was debate about putting a fiction into ways that is a good thing- the exposing box as moving on. Both of those are in large part because the culture did not the record and thereby debasing the of the bias and hatred in the system that actions that require some effort. You can change, nor did basic human nature. integrity of the House at the time, but had never really left. What we need to sit in a chair and watch the minutes tick Regarding our current political it was read in anyway. I do not know do now is not go forward or move on away while the shadows creep across the situation, I thought it would be interesting that this was a precedent in terms of the until it is dealt with and purged from floor and up the wall whilst not moving to see what the Hollywood record had to genesis of legitimizing fake news, but it the system. The overt white supremacist, an inch from where you are settled. say about politics, and so I sought out a does exist in the record to this day. racist leanings of the disgraced former Moving on requires that you at least get copy of ‘Mr. Smith goes to Washington’, Some say that this mockery of president could have in part been up and go somewhere, even if it’s going which I will admit to having never seen Greeley, which was still alive and well remedied by a Senate conviction for his to the fridge for another beer, in which before. I was surprised to find that it when he ran for president against second impeachment. In a sense, because case you are both moving on to another came out in 1939, the same year that Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, was a reason he wasn’t held accountable we are being place and another state of mind. It has ‘Gone With the Wind’ and ‘Wizard of for his losing to Grant. Others claim pushed now into just going forward. I been said that we need to move on from Oz’ made their cinematic entrances. that Greeley’s hand in freeing Jefferson am not sure what the remedy is for that. the place we’ve been stuck in for the last GWTW ran away with things that year Davis from prison, because he felt that I don’t know what it will take to get some four years, but we have to be sure that grossing almost six times what Mr. his imprisonment was dividing the justice around here. I just don’t know. It what we are moving on from is not left Smith brought in at $18 and $3.5 million country, had a much greater affect on is wrong that in a democracy, no matter behind like so much dust under the rug respectively, and they were one and two Greeley’s defeat at the polls. Greeley had what we do it seems out of our hands. because that dust will still be there when on the box office list with the Wizard perhaps been the single greatest advocate we get back from wherever it is that we coming in at number five. But that’s not of the Emancipation Proclamation, are wandering off to. why we came or went here. What was and had badgered Lincoln ceaselessly As an illustration of the going versus truly astounding about my visit with Mr. about his signing it. It is hard to say if Next Edition moving forward thing, one needs to look Capra and Mr. Stewart was the portrayal Davis’s being given a pass after only no further than the letters to the editor of the Senate from back in 1939. There two years in prison actually led to any of The Loop section of the other newspapers on the were the trumped up and untrue charges national healing as it was intended, Island. By this, I don’t just mean the other against Mr. Smith in order to cover the and to speculate as to whether Greeley paper of this present now, but also, one graft of others, and the media frenzy that would have done things differently Comes out can go to the library right here in town followed with more baseless charges of than Grant if he had been elected is and request a gander at what they have the “alternative facts” variety. There was somewhat pointless, as Greeley passed Thursday on record for the Island News Record, even the entire scene that was a carbon away not long after the election- some the predecessor to the Beachcomber. copy, or prototype of, depending on say it was a cascading of health events March 4 It’s been a couple years since I’ve done which direction in time one is traveling, possibly exacerbated by his extreme this so I don’t know if they’ve upgraded the Senate impeachment “jurors” in the disappointment at losing. It is difficult to Deadline for the next the technology- when I looked back into recent trial where many in the audience say whether or not Greeley would have edition of The Loop is the printed past here a short while ago were not paying any attention to either issued in a more enlightened view of it was by tediously going through the the house managers in presenting their Civil Rights since he was also known to Saturday, February 27 microfiche cards and guessing what the case, or Mr. Smith in his self-defense. have made disparaging comments about time window where the information I In going further backward in the inferiority of Black peoples, along was looking for might be. This is trouble an effort to find evidence of moving with expressing a disdain for Native for me on two counts. The first is that forward, or not, we find ourselves in Americans. 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You build a model, hold a rehearsal, write the do this from your available options, a proposal, and generally clear the space little at a time. But it’s not like getting Aries (March 20-April 19) a more optimistic outlook. Matters that and put it where you can see it. Even if into Harvard or the Church of Scientology The Sun’s ingress into the most seemed complex will have a tendency we’re talking about some form of digital where you must pay, and do exactly what sensitive angle of your chart on the 18th to feel simpler. Yet this mostly depends art, make it as tangible as possible. You is expected of you at all times. Community commences a phase of deep internal on you acknowledging something you will need a good few run-throughs, is not about being deemed worthy or not review for you. Events the past few weeks learn just as Mercury stations direct redesigns or rewrites to discover the bugs on a black and white basis: acceptable or have kept you involved in the social (exact Feb. 20 at 8:52 pm EST). There is and work them out. This transition from not. There must be flexibility, and also a world, which is the perfect thing for this an idea I learned in therapy, which is theory to lived reality is something that is commitment to honesty. Those are the two particular moment. Keep doing that, and “use what you know.” We might add going out of style fast, but which humanity qualities to notice with your senses and, then honor the calling to spend plenty of to that, “Know when you don’t know.” dispenses with to its peril. You are here in your emotional body and your physical time alone, reflecting on the many events Between these two concepts, we could your body to do things with your body, body. To put it simply, you want food of the past year that have so changed your devise a mind-map of our whole society. whatever that might mean to you: as long and not the promise of food. You want life, and all of known reality. You will We can infer why people are resistant to as it means physical form. One other bit. warm acceptance, not the pretext that benefit from a deep internal audit of your gaining knowledge: because it imparts a There is an influence in your chart that if you are eventually good enough, you state of being: from true personal inquiry. responsibility to actually do something is cautioning you about daddy-pleasing. will be accepted. Yet those pretexts are That, however, is a skill, and it’s one that about it. That is exactly the ethos I suggest This is going on at manic proportions, pervasive, and worse, they are soaked is not taught anymore and that has been you live by. Take full responsibility for though the message is the loudest and into most people at a very young age. The worn down in many who previously had the implications of what you’re aware clearest for you: make your own choices. bottom line is, to find your place, you must it. Living digital lives has taken us outside of. Know that in many cases you’re also Listen for that voice of disapproval, or the be willing to be alone for a while. Yet you ourselves. Turning our attention inward responsible for what you’re not aware notion that you must construct yourself do not want a substitute for the thing you seems as appealing to some as jumping of. This may not be true in some strict in someone else’s image in order to be need or desire; you want the real thing. into the water on a cold day, or wandering legal sense, though it is very true in acceptable — and go beyond it with the Having nothing for a while, or delaying into a dark cave. Yet you contain your both the moral and practical senses. It’s bold determination of knowing, “My life gratification, is better than an imitation, reality, and you need a sense of your a big job staying aware and informed. is my life.” inner being. The only way to get there It’s an even bigger job dealing with the though you must recognize that when you use and feel it. This is about one thing is to ease back and find your way inside implications of what is so. The decisions Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) only: being real with yourself at all times. yourself. If you feel like this is strange you make this week could have far- The Venus-Mars square, now active and unfamiliar territory, then you might reaching implications, and you don’t want in your chart, does not have a good Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) consider how that came to be. Look back any of them to be based on assumptions. reputation. I once dug through 10 old Many people never succeed at getting through your old journals. Not your old astrology books writing an article about their financial lives in order. Yet this is a Live Journal or Blogspot — your physical Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) it, and there was hardly a kind word to metaphor for taking ownership of one’s written journals, letters and photographs, You may now have a sense of how be found. Yet they all missed the point, existence. It is a metaphor for being a and notice what has changed. fuzzy some of your agreements are. Now, which is the struggle that humans have self-directed person who is not under the however, is the time to figure out where to integrate both genders. From time thumb of others. And this always comes Taurus (April 19-May 20) you stand with people. That means more to time this gets thrown up on the big back to parents, and the institutions You may be concerned about than anything figuring out where you board as the existential crisis du jour, that substitute for them in our lives: maintaining a boundary between what is stand with yourself. This is always the usually in the form of political battling governments, banks, employers, and quite your responsibility and what belongs to challenge, when it comes to getting clear or an alleged existential disaster. And often partners — among others. While the others. You may not want to take on too with others. You’re in a situation where it’s always about accepting someone emphasis of your life now shifts to the much. You may have personal priorities it’s vitally important to be on level ground else, and not something within yourself. financial aspects of your experience, there to attend to. Yet there is no separating with yourself. This is of course the great Women demanding their rights become is much more to the story than how much those things from something else that is challenge of human existence, particularly the symbol of womanliness. Gay people money you have, or need. What we are trying to get your attention, something as our awareness is not only under assault demanding rights become the symbol talking about is being responsible for your much larger than yourself. There are all the time, but constantly for sale or for of your gayness. Men standing behind a existence. That means moving on from people who naturally have that sense, rent. What you must be cautious about row of barbecues become the symbol of all those who may end up with the role and others who cannot see past the rims is your idealism. It is one thing to be all that is wrong with the world. This is of encouraging you not to be wholly in of their eyeglasses, for whom everything optimistic, and to see the best in people. all a missed opportunity to accept, admit possession of your life. These are assigned is merely personal. You are in an extended However, not everyone’s motives are and acknowledge who you are. And it’s roles, though they may seem like fate, time of personal reinvention, described by wholesome. Not everyone is honest. And not merely about your identity. It’s about destiny, or circumstances beyond your Uranus in your birth sign. People begin it can take some serious scrutiny to filter how you feel, who you want, what you control. You now have Jupiter and Saturn such transits one way and often end up out who is real from who is not. Nobody want, and what you need — for real, not in your sign. That is a way of saying there entirely different people. One way you has a perfect batting average no matter merely because someone finally said it’s must be no matters that you do not take are changing is by extending your concept how much they may practice. The Sun OK. Which is unlikely to happen, unless hold of with the full force of your being. of “self” to something that includes many moving through one of the most sensitive that someone is you. more people. Your life is no longer about areas of your chart for the next few weeks This is a time like no other. Use it wisely. minding your own business. Neither is it is about cleaning up your boundaries. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) about minding the business of others but And before you get there, you will get the So what are you doing now? Your The Sun enters your sign this week rather the business of society. Parents, opportunity to find out where they are. chart suggests you could finish all five (Thursday at 5:44 am EST), which always teachers and therapists tell us not to take books you have going, all three movies, comes as a relief. The water signs in on what is not really ours. Your chart Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) and your top-five favorite ideas for general and Pisces in particular thrive advises differently. Seeking the truth is not so popular websites. You have more power running when the Sun is in a water sign. You these days. It’s easy to understand why: through the language and mind angle need to be in your element. Yet it’s vital Gemini (May 20-June 21) those who did not do so and who are of your chart than a lightning storm on to recognize that ultimately your element You are about to make a discovery. Or certain they are right are threatened by Saturn. I suggest, however, that you focus is within yourself. Yes, everyone needs an rather, you will, if you notice, and if you those who inquire. You, however, have on your single most important priority. It inner life, and in these days of inside-out are willing to give up a false idea about an inquiring mind, and this has been is likely to be the thing calling you today, digital chaos, few people have one. For something. Learning means a few things. running at peak potential lately with right now. It may not be your “favorite” you this is not an option, particularly now, For one, it means changing. For another, it Mercury retrograde in Aquarius. The sign thing (but it might); that is irrelevant. It’s with so many planets moving through often means having been wrong. Anyone associated with advances in science and what needs to happen and happen well the most sensitive angle of your chart attached to staying the same, by which I technology is in your house of healing enough such that only you can do it. For (Aquarius, your 12th solar house). If I may mean in their ideation (in this case), will (Aquarius is 6 places from Virgo, hence this purpose, your mantra does not need be so bold, the challenge you face is how not want to make the change necessary to the 6th solar house). Right now, as in this to be about reminding yourself how not to feel like a prisoner of your own life. learn successfully. Anyone who is attached moment, there is a movement to merge brilliant you are. Rather, remind yourself: You have much more freedom than you to being right will not be able to be wrong medicine, technology, biology and health. “I am efficient. I will find the best way may recognize — now you must figure enough to actually learn, and that, sadly, That is dangerous because an experienced to get this done. I will set limits on my out how to make that real. The first thing is where many people are stuck. Making herbalist is more likely to help you than all creativity and work with what I’ve got. I you can do is exercise your options. Get a discovery is not seen by everyone as a the molecular biology in the world. All this respect time and necessity. I will use my out whenever you can, by which I mean reward. For many, it is the last thing they science stuff is the opposite of the Holistic creativity as a tool, not as the thing that outside and away from the all-consuming want, as making a discovery could require Principle, which is what you would live rules me.” And so on. You must be the digital realm. You may need to push, them to change many other things about by in a perfect world: all of life is one one in control of your mind and your pull or lure yourself, and you’ll need to their life and it is seemingly easier to live expression (described magnificently in personal resources. That does not mean remember how good you feel when you in denial. For you, to do this would be to the book The Biophilia Hypothesis by Ed all of destiny or the fate of the world, only succeed. Then, the next thing to do is miss one of the greatest opportunities of Wilson). You are a whole person, and the your personal abilities and assets. That is indulge in any and all forms of physical your life so far. Embrace that what you key to your wellbeing is your wholeness. quite enough. learn will change you. Accept that change The more you investigate that, and explore sensuality. That is the one thing lacking is necessary, and to have your beliefs and experience it, the better able you will from the in-silico universe of the cyber corrected is only helpful. be to take care of yourself and those you Find us on Skype realm. Get wet. Get real. love. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Vashon Loop Read Eric Francis daily at With the Sun’s move to your fellow Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) 206-925-3837 www. PlanetWaves.net water sign Pisces, you are likely to have Put your plan into physical form. It’s The Vashon Loop, p. 8 February 18‘ 21

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