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Let’s work with Ya-Po-Ah Terrace to make its holiday PEACE ON EARTH rooftop display a permanent feature of Eugene’s skyline year-round.

Look at a map of Paris and then look at a map of Eugene. Each has a curving blue stripe running through it.

Let me tell you about one of the next industries that will be violently disrupted by the digital age: tourism. Visitors will be offered directions and suggestions based on their browsing and buying habits. People will love it, and it will be horrible. Nobody enjoys feeling lost, especially with nobody familiar nearby to help them. […]

The rain (or lack thereof) does not fall equally on the just and the unjust. The dismay Kristen feels is not distributed equally across the political spectrum.

The first three good-hearted replies offered me advice instead of help. “Ask at a fabric store.” “Any tailor shop can do this for you.” “Saturday Market has plenty of people who sew.” In our previous world — the one with which we are most familiar — those would have been the best strategies available.

Residents may find themselves getting into a neighbor’s car. This detail could end up being more important than you think. To explain why, let me take you on a little side trip.

A unified front against Daylight Saving Time would expose the silliness for what it is. Think of the move as secession-lite.

Beneath our parading self-importance, we’re silently amazed that we can carry so much stuff — so much important stuff! — around with us.

Each of them wondered why I saw their system as problematic, but each had stories of problems they had personally encountered.

In this way, the work of the hike is inseparable from the reward. The view from above is better for those who earned it.