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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The Oregon Bach Festival crowd wears just as much make-up as they do at the Fair, but applied to different body parts.

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We celebrate a diversity of dress codes in Lane County. Look over a symphony audience and you’ll find the occasional tie dye, but if you look harder, you might be surprised to see how many are wearing sandals.

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If darkness is good for anything, it’s good for writing your name in the air with a sparkler, or oohing and aahing at a colorful burst exploding overhead.

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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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We’re as sticky with oil as those Gulf state pelicans. We won’t be able to clean ourselves easily or soon. And until we do, real progress is out of the question.

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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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Solomon may have been right when he mused “there’s nothing new under the sun.” That obstacle to originality barely bothers us for eight months each year, explaining why the Pacific Northwest registers more patents per capita than any other region in the world.

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