Author: North Coast BBQ

And thanks to everyone who is participating in the National Day of Action.

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Happy May and Beltane Blessings!
May is such a magical month infused with the spirit of rebirth, fertility and diversity of life.
May 1 is Beltane, an ancient Celtic celebration of the new season with expectations for a good harvest in the incoming summer. It was admired with lighting bonfires as a symbol of purification, creation, and new beginnings. It was custom for communities to dance around maypoles beautifully decorated by flowers and ribbons, gather wildflowers, and wear elaborate flower garlands.
Today, we can create our own Beltane celebration rituals by burning the sage or lighting candles to purify our spaces and our energetic fields, by communing with the nature, and making gratitude offerings for her abundance and beauty. It is a time to pause, think about the changes we need to make as an individual and the collective to create a new reality where all living beings are free from sufferings and injustice.
Set your intentions for the new season in your life, and let them be rooted in what brings you a deeper sense of joy and fulfillment. It’s a time that we honor the life-force in all things, when we remember that joy, like wildflowers, yearns to bloom inside us.
Enjoy the magic of May and Beltane!

Who is Running for Governor of Oregon?

Did you know there are twenty-four (24) people running for Governor of Oregon on your May 19, 2026 primary ballot? Oregon media outlets and the political establishments still don’t believe everyone who is courageous enough to put their name on the ballot deserve to be heard. Here are the nineteen candidates who have decided to choose people over special interests. They have not received equal attention or access to share their vision for the state.

www.dukefororegon.com/candidates

They are listed with their websites.

Judges – You know I stopped voting for judges several years ago, I felt I didn’t have much knowledge of any one of them so ………and most of them run unopposed anyway. But in this district now – 27th district – there are two persons running for position 2 in this district – which is kind of unusual! So I am going to vote for the one which wasn’t previously hand picked, because our Oregon constitution says that we the people of Oregon get to vote for a judge with the ballot system, not for a candidate that was put there by an elected official or a state agency or a political party. And there is a choice this time! This is the only court position, this time, where two people are running for the same position. Amazing! A choice!!

As far as ballot measures go – you really have to think about those…………..

Well be sure to vote and turn your ballot in on time!!
There is a debate May 8th. 6:30 pm Nestucca K-8
gym. Spink, Lyon, and Hamalian. know your candidates!!

Food banks in Oregon are grappling with significant federal funding reductions, particularly from the USDA, which cut over $1 billion nationally affecting foodbanks and school nutrition programs. These cuts have resulted in canceled truckloads of food, rising demand, and reduced purchasing power for local food programs. Oregon Food Bank and local organizations report historic levels of need and a 31% increase in visits in the past year alone.

Thanks to all of you who participated in the Food Tsunami sponsored by the Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay. With the price of everything going up-especially food and gas, it is especially important for our communities to support all our local programs dealing with food insecurity. If you can, buy a $15 gas card and give it to your employees. At this point in time, every little bit helps.

North County Resistance will continue to meet on Saturdays, in Nehalem, from noon to 2 PM. We wish we didn’t need to, but we feel we must. We need to show the people who are running our country that we are not buying what is going on. The elite are getting more while the people who keep this country running are struggling daily. Think of what could be done in this country with the $28 billion plus that has been spent on the Iran War.

See you Saturday, May 2, in Nehalem, from noon to 2 PM. We need you to join us in our peaceful protest. A big thank you to 420NTO!

Best,
Patty

Until I Refuse

Awakening, no longer willing to live in exile,
excluded from those places where the heart
still needs healing, I am now required to refuse.
For it is only a matter of how long we can hold
on to what is not serving. As things go to pieces,
can we commit to remember our compassion is a fertile womb offering space for what is forgiving.
And who would wish to be entitled by pretense
whether to honor or disgrace. In this disguised
play of oppressing algorithms, let us build a stage
that needs no applause and no disdain. Are we
not all called to more than this subservience.
I refuse, I will not pursue the keys to the gated
property. All the holders have managers and brokers. I see no grace in their repeated asking, no grace in the needing. When is enough what it purports to be? Yes, a child needs to suckle, come to the breast, listen to the instructions of mother
and father, perhaps appreciate kind elders,
even a rabbi, minister, imam, neighbor, or priest.
It does seem natural to look elsewhere, outside
the direct experience we are all given. Able to
learn, we will honor being told what we need
until a time comes when we must refuse.