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It’s meditation—the slowing of time and the absence of sound—that Ron Elliott, a Point Reyes Station resident who has had hundreds of encounters with white sharks while free diving off the Farallon Islands, is seeking.

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The vision that Albert Straus, C.E.O. of Straus Family Creamery, has for agriculture is uncompromising.

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Do you have an image of the night sky in your mind’s eye? Do you think about the winter solstice as the beginning of winter, or the middle? Is Mercury retrograde a literal backward transit, or a matter of perception?

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Describe the scene, but don’t reveal too much—and keep it wacky. That’s the philosophy of the owner of 2 Mile Surf Shop, Drew Reinstein, who writes an early-morning surf report for the popular Bolinas breaks, along with a handful of staff members. 

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Meg Gould was not willing to apologize for her body odor. A Bolinas native, she developed a recipe for a non-chemical deodorant in her own kitchen after the commercial brands she had always relied upon suddenly failed her. 

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Point Reyes Books put up a new sign that read “Calendula Country Books” on Monday, and closed its doors to the public. Outside, a production crew set up camp, blocking off parking spaces and periodically stopping pedestrians after the call, “Rolling!”

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As they pulled out of their driveway on the way to The Station House Café in June, Dave Mitchell leaned over to Lynn Axelrod, his girlfriend of eight years, and said, “Let’s make this an engagement dinner.”

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Herman Berlandt, who emigrated to the United States with his family from Chelm, Poland in the late 1920s, wrote a poem every day.

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Coyuchi, the Point Reyes Station-based organic bedding company, sells tens of thousands of pounds of organic cotton each year; once used, some of it inevitably winds up in a landfill.

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Longtime Point Reyes Station resident Hathaway Barry set out eight years ago with a burning question. Bringing her past experience as a mediator, an educator and a poet, she asked: What happens to boys as they grow up?