All that space
      "We're in space, and space is infinite. Yet here we are on earth, in the middle all of that space." My 88-year-old friend shares this bit of wisdom with me before he retires to his bunk. We are in the cabin he built in the middle of the Santa Lucia Mountains, his homestead a sphere of life in...
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Coyote legend elevates wild creature to god
By Mollie Hogan Special to the Acorn
      Many Native American tribes credit the coyote with helping God create the world and prepare it for the first people. Or, according to other's beliefs, the coyote performed the magic himself. In the legends of many tribes, the coyote made the first humans from feathers, mud or straw.
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The Art of Being
Dr. King Had the Answer: Stick With Love
      Hate is a toxic energy that can wear many different masks, but behind them all dwells the same thing: fear. Have you ever carried the burden of hate? I have, and I know how hard it is to let it go, especially when it seems to be "justified" because of someone else's act of cruelty, th...
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