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Walt O’Dwyer: Amazing grace
Regarding Denes McIntosh’s Other Voices column, “Tears of gratitude for the sublime,” his spirit was felt by me! This was the most all inclusive sharing I have had felt in many years. This is the...
Published: February 28, 2019
Nancy Stevenson: Choice is up to us
A truly excellent and timely message was in the Nov. 11 edition of The Union under Other Voices by Denes McIntosh titled, “Changing with the times.” It is necessary to make conscious personal choices in...
Published: November 25, 2016
Denes McIntosh: Changing with the times
It has come time in our existence as the family of man that every person in the free world, mindful, or otherwise, is being motivated to make a choice. Now it may not be a...
Published: November 10, 2016
Denes McIntosh: On the natural world
There is an inherent equalizer in the natural world, in the beauty of nature, in its profundity, and in its incomprehensible power. I think, however, that people have forgotten that we, in fact, are very...
Published: May 14, 2019
Denes McIntosh: No longer alone
I recently spent a day and evening in San Francisco. Hadn’t been back there in awhile. I do get down out of the mountains fairly regularly, so it’s not as if I’m completely out of...
Published: November 27, 2018
Denes McIntosh: A greater purpose
We toil in the fields, in the factories, in the cubicles, in the corporate offices, and in the restaurants, bars and cafés. We try to find satisfaction in the work we do, all the while...
Published: January 10, 2019
Denes McIntosh: Tears of gratitude
I stood on top of a mountain one morning and surveyed the granite lake below. A wind was blowing constant across the water raising waves no higher than a foot or so, but aligned with...
Published: February 7, 2019
Denes McIntosh: A warm comforter
As the days have been shorter, and the nights longer, I’ve found myself being pulled down, somehow, almost as if by gravity. I experience it every year about this time. I love the autumn weather,...
Published: December 15, 2016
Denes McIntosh: Selfies — here’s me
I remember when I used to take pictures of other people, places or things. What a novel occurrence that has become. In today’s world I just take photos of myself. Sometimes there are other people...
Published: December 22, 2016
Denes McIntosh: Darkness illuminates the stars in the sky
Early one morning a friend of mine said, “I feel sorry for anyone who is not me today.” Well now, that can certainly be construed as an egocentric, vain, and self-righteous statement if one were...
Published: September 23, 2018
Denes McIntosh: My father’s desk
I have my father’s desk. He gave it to me when it became apparent that he would not be using it again. My dad has gotten very old. It’s an old desk too, an old...
Published: September 3, 2017
Denes McIntosh: The pleasure of knowing pain
Most everyone has suffered some degree of personal/emotional or situational hardship and misfortune in life. And many have been affected by at least one painful benchmark, including the death of friends or family, the perpetual...
Published: March 19, 2019
Denes McIntosh: Seemingly random associations
Every morning I would see a woman on the side of the road waiting for a bus. I’d just drive by, she’d be there, and I’d keep on driving. It was always the same. I...
Published: May 19, 2017
Denes McIntosh: Crippling ideology divides community
It sickens me how so many have a need to label others as liberal or conservative, right wing or left wing, perpetuating the revulsion of one side for the other. It is not an intelligent...
Published: November 29, 2016
Denes McIntosh: Fond remembrance of Grass Valley
I am not someone accustomed to living in the past. It’s good at times to reflect on the past, but too much reflection may prove to be the cement that holds one there, stuck (as...
Published: September 13, 2019
Denes McIntosh: Now is a good time to clear out the clutter
With the escalating socio/political unease in the taking up of sides (as opposed to the more constructive effort of reason and compromise), the continuing struggle for us all to get along seems that much more...
Published: February 10, 2017
Denes McIntosh: Catholic confessional recruiting ground for pedophile priests
As individuals, and as a culture, it wouldn’t hurt to go to confession. In fact it could help. I’m not advocating that anyone necessarily do the traditional Catholic Church confession, although that is a sound...
Published: August 21, 2018
Denes McIntosh: Honestly, what we need is more honesty
I write quite often about honesty. But I do so because I do not believe that the world suffers so much from a political or social justice problem as it does from a problem with...
Published: November 9, 2017
Thank you!: We at The Union appreciate everyone who wrote to and contributed to our editorial page in 2016
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Published: December 30, 2016