dkSez : : : : : : Don Kahle’s blog

Our block has a mix of young families and retirees, renters and owners, bicyclists and SUV-drivers. If we were a recipe, we’d boast a wild array of flavors. But we don’t really mix. I hope Sundays at Six will stir things up.

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We bantered good-naturedly about the “chair people” and the “blanket people,” wishing that there was height-limitation zoning for free concerts. But the truth is, the lack of rules heightened our enjoyment. We made new friends. We mixed our dips with their chips. Seltzer calls it “surprise without fear.”

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… an ingenious traffic-calming strategy called cobblestone. Shopkeepers love it. These original rough-hewn roads seem to shake the money directly out of visitors’ pockets.

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It’s one thing to start a business. It’s another to run a company. The former can surely keep you busy. But the latter requires others to accompany the owner in his or her busy-ness.

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The city should follow Spilde’s lead, get a little pluck of its own, and plan a new civic square at 10th and Olive. Where right now we have a downtown hole, we can begin to make downtown whole.

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Nobody can ever know how many people attempt to describe to disbelieving friends something they saw on the Park Blocks in faraway Eugene, where downtown jukes and jaunts like no other place they’ve ever seen.

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When moral purity becomes a measure of social stature, there’s always risk of being one-upped. We all want to be good, but don’t we also fear we’ll never be good enough?

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They are good people and they do good work. But this money coming their way is compensation for the hours when they did not work. It’s free money for them, at a time when money doesn’t feel very free to any of us.

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We live and learn slowly here, so we’re hoping you can speed things up for us. We love to process everything here, even if it means the world sometimes passes us by. But your little experiment could quicken us.

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If Coburg votes for sewers, they will be voting to make room for more and other future Coburg residents. That faith in the future is what drives civilization forward — regular people trying to make things just a little bit better.

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