Dear Editor:
Santa Claus is known and trusted for his benevolence. Milk and cookies and perhaps a clean chimney are all he expects. CMP is the “polar “ opposite, expecting and demanding that Maine donates huge gifts in return for far too little. Barely enough to pay for the wrapping paper and bows. In fact, CMP and its foreign owner are more like The Grinch That Stole Christmas lacking the humanity he manifests at the story’s end.
How has such a cruel plan been hatched to cheat the Canadian Native tribes of their lands destroyed by flooding from the megadams that Quebec Hydro built? Or the destruction of beautiful forest habitat in the northwest of Maine? Why has Govenor Mills endorsed this bogus plan? To date, CMP has only provided us with the glitz of its advertisements, filled with false facts and empty promises.
Going inward for increased mental, spiritual and physical well-being
LISA KRISTOFF
Hindu Om
Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, was the founder of Buddhism. One of his teachings was this: “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts your life will start to change.”
Life during a pandemic makes it harder to focus on positive thoughts; every day, every hour we are bombarded with new COVID-19 statistics, worrying about the health of family members – and our own health; political fractures, changes in doing business, business closings, the to mask or not to mask debate, worldwide friction and dissent, the list goes on. And because the outer world is out of our control, it just might be time to discover the peace, strength and calm that meditation has been bringing people for centuries.
Going inward for increased mental, spiritual and physical well-being
LISA KRISTOFF
Hindu Om
Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, was the founder of Buddhism. One of his teachings was this: “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts your life will start to change.”
Life during a pandemic makes it harder to focus on positive thoughts; every day, every hour we are bombarded with new COVID-19 statistics, worrying about the health of family members – and our own health; political fractures, changes in doing business, business closings, the to mask or not to mask debate, worldwide friction and dissent, the list goes on. And because the outer world is out of our control, it just might be time to discover the peace, strength and calm that meditation has been bringing people for centuries.
December has been a month of hope and concern, with COVID-19 vaccines deployed for the first time to hospitals across Maine but health officials warned that the state continues to battle “a surge on top of a surge.”
Hospitals this week received the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine and began inoculating frontline workers. The first phase of vaccinations focuses on healthcare workers in intensive care units, emergency rooms and COVID-19 wings of hospitals.
This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor.
The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journalism product published by The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic news organization based in Augusta.
Wed, 12/16/2020 - 10:00am
The Catholic church on the east side of Boothbay Harbor as it looked some time after construction began in 1916. The steeple was added in 1924. Courtesy of Boothbay Region Historical Society
On October 20, William Hodgdon, off the steamer Grayling, was pickpocketed at the Topsham Fair. The Good Roads League may have been running into a little resistance since there was a front-page appeal for support from everyone, even those who owned no horses or cars. The high school formed a track team, with Douglas Knight as captain, and Joe Dodge as manager. The Register asked if anyone could equal J. R. Giles of Dover Road having 28 sunflowers on one stalk!