What’s New in June
Dear Readers: We don’t have archives by issue, but the Complement’s format has been revised so that you can view all of the past articles on any given page. If there is a “Load More” link at the bottom of the page, clicking it will bring up the older articles — all arranged in chronologic order.
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NEWS & VIEWS
Dealing with Health-Related Crises, by Connie Kent
-The tangle of medicine and management
A Few More Health-Care Questions, by Bob Buddemeier
-Even more tangles
Father Joel is movin’ on!, by Joni Johnson
-Hail and Farewell — with an original goodbye poem by Fr Joel
A Cautionary Tale — Anonymous
-An unprepared-for death
The Experiment Continues — README Again!
– -An invitation to sample an opinion page
in Big, Borrowed, or Both
Toward a Planet-Wide Culture of Non-Violence, by Russy Sumariwalla
-a reprint of an article published in the UN Chronicle, 10/2/2018
3550: the Portland Mirabella quarterly magazine (most recent issue)
Mirabella Monthly, Newsletter of the Seattle Mirabella (most recent issue)
ARTS & INFO
Manor Penthouse Bonsai, a photo collage by Reina Lopez
Do Cats Grieve? by Bob Buddemeier
Timely Word Play, by Connie Kent
RVM May-July Event & Entertainment Schedule
June Library Display, by Anne Newins
Power Couple — (Book Review), by Bonnie Tollefson
Digital Currency Firm Eyes Manor Retail Location, by A. Looney
–Our Nit-Wit Newz correspondent has returned!
PREPARE
‘Tis the Season to be…ALERT!, by Bob Buddemeier
-Don’t put that mask away yet!
After reading Russy’s clear and stimulating article, I find myself gut-reacting to his inevitable optimism. He is, without doubt, a living example of what we mostly want to achieve in life on this planet. The big “but,” however, comes in my response to the ambivalent and caustic disasters created by so many people living in our divisive and cruel world. We look to China, Russia and say what disastrous dictatorships those people have to live under, and Hong Kong is a prime example, a clear and present danger. But we also must look at the numbers of mass killings and destructions existing in the USA, no better than those countries we condemn. The history in Russy’s essay is flawless, but we still have to live under threat of dictatorship in our present situation. And it gives me pause. I am here today; I exist in a too-cruel world in the little town of Medford, an insignificant dot in the world. I am pessimistic, and I don’t believe the pendulum can swing fast enough to save our democracy. I fought for it in another meaningless war, and I have always been proud to serve my country, but I grieve for what it has become. It is now a place where our president has to go into world meetings trying to speak courageously about the superior plan democracy holds. I am pessimistic about that. We are holding on by down-to-the-stump nails to a barely recognizable republic in a disastrous capitalism which destroys the lower and middle classes. Russy is a fantastic historian, and his extensive readings have created his astute personality. I live in a different world, one of disaster, cruelty and without redemption, at least until the pendulum swings far enough to assure all people, EVERYONE, the bliss of “by the people, and for the people.”