Destiny Leads to Discovery of Johnson's Landing Retreat
Overlooking British Columbia's Kootenay Lake
by Richard Ortega

Sometimes we have an experience in life that is a clear indication that we have been guided to a place or a person. And sometimes significant events, which present themselves at particular moments in our lives, may have been meaningless at another point. It is all a matter of where we are in the development of our consciousness.

Spinach! Spring!
by Paulette Millis

We know spring is here when voluntary spinach is popping up in our garden patch! Popeye swallowed spinach by the can-full, gave himself amazing strength, and performed herculean feats, humorously leading us all to believe in the necessity of eating copious amounts of spinach. Thus it was, for years, forced down the throats of countless unwilling children. Spinach, spinacia oleracea, originating in Persia and Iran, was cultivated for many centuries before the creation of Popeye. European immigrants brought it to the US and by 1806 commercial cultivation began.

Saskatoon Community Bicycle Program
Creating a Healthier Lifestyle and Environment
by Olin Valby

We live in a world of change. Spring leaps into summer. One billion persons in 1900, six billion in 2000. Movies and magazines beamed around the world. From no love, to free love, to what can I sell with love? Baby brother is 6 foot 5 inches. From the king's carriage to a car in every driveway. There'll be a billion cars spewing smoke quicker than we can legalize a couple of joints. We live in a world of demands. A 40-hour week that feels more like 60. Figuring out what Windows XP has to do with music. Traffic jams. Global warming–what's the deal with Kyoto? Taxes are going up. Healthcare reforms–where are the dollars? My car is falling apart, again! "Sometimes it's too much. I just want to go for dinner, a couple of drinks, and come home to a good book. What should I do?" Bike there!

Circles, Sound, and Creation
Connecting with the Vast Cycles of the Universe
by Beata Van Berkom

Science is now re-discovering that sound is the basis of form. Sound creates form, which is the magical realm of sacred geometry and chaos fractal patterns. I began to ponder this idea in relationship to the creation of crop circle patterns. This idea is not new. The medium is the message with the crop circles. The fact that they are here and that they are unexplainable by our current understanding is a big part of their complex layered message. Crop circles are opening minds to the possibility of other technologies, other forms, and codes of information. We must remember that science is magic we understand and magic is science we don't understand.

Editorial
by Melva Armstrong

If you are like me, for the past two months you have been having trouble concentrating on your daily tasks due to worries and concerns about the people of Iraq, After all, on a deep soul level they are our brothers and sisters and part of our universal family, and they are being severely harmed and killed. I find it appalling in this day and age that we, as a human race, still engage in these barbaric and inhumane acts of violence against our own kind, and against the land.

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Healing from the Heart with Healing Touch
Viewpoint: Canada Better Off Joining the EU
Natural Reflections: The Earth is Recording What We Do Upon Her
In Memorium: William G. (Billy) Crook
Book Review: The Standing People
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