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Entries Tagged as 'Ojai'

Eat Local One Year

May 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

We have exciting opportunity here in Ojai to participate with a group eating locally for one year. Of course, this could happen anywhere but Kristofer and Joanne Young have challenged our community by seeking 100 (or more) volunteers willing to do this together. The group is just getting off the ground and has met once [...]

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Tags: Family · General · Ojai

What is a potential Christian?

May 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

A couple of years ago I wrote a bio that said I was a “practicing Buddhist and a potential Christian.” Partially, I made it up to be funny. With that said, I have a great deal of respect of my Christian roots and honor the Christian faith. Most of my values, thinking patterns, social action, [...]

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Tags: Buddhism · Ojai

Two Words I Didn’t Expect to Hear

April 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Two different colleagues relayed stories where the words wetback and beaner were used recently. I didn’t expect to hear these two words in 2008. Even the folks who demonstrated in Ojai last week did not admit to being racist (though I suspect differently). And despite the fact that we have a black man running [...]

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Tags: General · Ojai

Summer in March

March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

We have been experiencing some warm weather the last few days and the flowers are all blooming. The mountains look great. The sky is blue. And a full moon has greeted us at night. Today was in the upper 80s and we hung out around the pool with family for an Easter lunch. [...]

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Tags: Buddhism · Family · Ojai