Category: Voices

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 23 – 30, 2020

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 23 – 30, 2020

    ARIES — On Tuesday, there is a New Moon in your birth sign. This event connects to the planetary pattern that’s driving the rather strange world situation. In other words, the Moon and the Sun line up with centaur planets Chiron and Pholus, which are connected to the lunar nodes. That might mean something to…

  • From My Bookshelf: Send Down the Rain

    From My Bookshelf: Send Down the Rain

    By Lynn Willoughby Send Down the Rain ~ Charles Martin This is a complex book with several stories. The writing is deceptively simple. The stories are not. Joseph is a soul weary, sad and lonely man. We know little about him other than he lives alone in a remote cabin in the mountains. Out wandering with his dog, Rosco,…

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 16 – 23, 2020

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 16 – 23, 2020

    By Eric Francis ARIES — Set aside any notion of every man for himself, and remember your ethics. You also need to keep a lookout for people who are adopting that strategy. At the same time, there will be many opportunities for you to participate in a constructive and positive way, which will serve the…

  • From My Bookshelf: A Boy From the Streets

    From My Bookshelf: A Boy From the Streets

    By Lynn Willoughby A Boy From the Streets ~ Maria Gibbs Twin boys born in Rio are abandoned at birth.  Less than a week later, Carolina and Fernando adopt one, and move to England where Carolina is in and out of mental hospitals for the next twelve years.  Now they are headed back to Brazil…

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 9 – 16, 2020

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 9 – 16, 2020

    By Eric Francis ARIES — You need some time in the sanctity of your own thoughts, to consider where you are at in life, and what you want. Various events keep extracting you into the world, particularly via the digital sphere. You have an important investment of yourself there, particularly social, and you’ve figured out…

  • From My Bookshelf: Life on the Ground Floor

    From My Bookshelf: Life on the Ground Floor

    By Lynn Willoughby Life on the Ground Floor: Letters From the Edge of Emergency Medicine ~ James Maskalyk This is a deeply personal book for the author as he writes about his life as an emergency room doctor in Toronto, his humanitarian work in Ethiopia and his visits with his elderly grandfather in northern Alberta.  I really…

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 2 – 9, 2020

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 2 – 9, 2020

    By Amy Elliott AriesFor the past two weeks, Mercury has been making its way backward through the most sensitive area of your solar chart. This describes a process of deep discovery relating to who you are. More than likely, it’s felt quite gentle and subtle, an idea gradually building in the back of your mind.…

  • From My Bookshelf: The Institute

    From My Bookshelf: The Institute

    By Lynn Willoughby The Institute ~ Stephen King Another great tale from the weird and wonderful mind of Stephen King. “No one does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.” This book involves children with special telepathic powers, who are kidnapped and taken to a secret, hidden facility…

  • Ask Biella: “Loving your neighbor as yourself is always the right thing to do, isn’t it? So everyone wins! 🙂 “

    Ask Biella: “Loving your neighbor as yourself is always the right thing to do, isn’t it? So everyone wins! :) “

    Tackling this common expression Biella reveals an uncommon Perspective which makes a Difference.

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: February 24 – March 2, 2020

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: February 24 – March 2, 2020

    By Eric Francis Coppolino ARIES — There are times along the way to learning how to be yourself that you have to exaggerate a little. That might mean speaking a little more loudly, dressing in bright colors, or seeking more attention for something you’ve done or are doing. It might mean sifting the emphasis of…

  • From My Bookshelf: Starlight

    From My Bookshelf: Starlight

    By Lynn Willoughby Starlight ~ Richard Wagamese I have been a Wagamese fan since I read “Ragged Company”.  Then I read everything else he had written. Sadly, this will be his last book as he died on March 10, 2017 – just before he was able to complete the draft of this novel.  I believe this…

  • Longview Library Invites Readers to Check Out These Books

    Longview Library Invites Readers to Check Out These Books

    A great big thank you and hug to Saje Maquski for her most generous support of the library this year. We really appreciate it, and marvel that she can raise so much money from her Village Markets each year. Again, thank you. We have some paintings by Nicki Denette displayed in the library. Nicki has…

  • Ask Biella: “How can you get as many different perspectives as possible?”

    Ask Biella: “How can you get as many different perspectives as possible?”

    Biella shares many different options for gaining perspectives.

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: February 17 – 24, 2020

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: February 17 – 24, 2020

    By Eric Francis ARIES — Mars, your ruling planet, has just entered Capricorn, which will change the tone of your life in a noticeable way. You must take special care and caution on all matters associated with higher-ups, by which I mean people in authority of any kind. This includes its smaller forms, right down…

  • From My Bookshelf: Forgiveness

    From My Bookshelf: Forgiveness

    By Lynn Willoughby Forgiveness ~ Mark Sakamoto This Canadian author has hit all the right notes in this autobiographical memoir of three generations of his family. There truly are lessons in forgiveness for all of us. Ralph MacLean is from the Magdalene Islands. He is eighteen when he and his best friend, Deighton, enlist in the army…