Country Roads: Feel it in the air
You can smell it in the air, feel it in your bones, see it in the beginnings of color change — summer is ending and with it the tremendous energy force of Mother Nature’s race to produce food. The food’s consumers are more than just human. They include the animals that share our planet. Hence, the seeds of weeds and trees feed the birds. Melons, winter squash, and tree fruit fill beaks and stomachs of hundreds of creatures hiding in nests, burrows, blackberry brambles.
Silver Linings
iPad-Just the Basics • Wednesday 10/16 and 10/23 • 10 to 11:30 a.m. • $45R/$50NR
Wine Words: A love story
In January we lost one of our most celebrated agricultural leaders, Richard Kunde. Rich, and his beloved Saralee McClelland Kunde, both from multi-generational Sonoma County families, had the rich qualities of the place of which they were born.
Off the Top of My Head: A diversion
I can use a diversion. How about some Halloween stories?
Keeping the Faith: Hope for 2018?
Swiss theologian Emily Brunner, in a provocative little book called “Faith, Hope, and Love,” proposes a kind of timeline by which to apprehend these three spiritual principles. He sees faith relating to the past, hope relating to the future and love centered in the present.
Slow and steady
We are beginning to “open” our local economy and bring some normalcy back to our daily lives while we remain very vigilant with our physical distancing, protective masks and extreme hand washing to decrease the spread of the novel coronavirus. Patience and good manners...
Unplugging, one day at a time
If you are reading this newspaper in its original paper and ink version, then you’re on the right track. But, if you’re reading it on a phone or computer screen, then you’re already missing out on something big. Over different 24-hour periods this week,...
Arts & Entertainment
Local ‘rock star’ on art tour
For Alexander Valley sculptor T Barny, it’s about more than just about the stone. “It’s a way scientists or astronomers envision the universe as being infinite, but finite,” he says. “It just keeps going, keeps going, keeps going.” The concepts of art and topology animate him.