Here’s a thought…
“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.”
GIORGOS SEFERIS
You’re Invited to an “Open Forest”
Monday, May 1, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Orcas Island Forest School Open Forest Curious about what a Forest School looks like? Orcas Island Forest School will hold an Open Forest Monday, May 1 from 3:30-5:30
Orcas Rotary Features Eric Webb at Meeting
Friday, April 28, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Eastsound Fire Station -- from Jeanne McPherson -- Orcas Island Rotary presents School Superintendent Eric Webb in a presentation entitled, “Bond Bound⎯ Caught in the Webb” on Friday,
Great News for Orcas Island School District
-- from Cathy Ferran -- U.S. News and World Report just announced their 2017 Best High Schools rankings. The rankings award the top 6,041 public high schools with gold, silver and bronze medals, indicating their
April Poetry | Bad Villanelle – Oh Well!
Bad Villanelle - Oh Well! -- Sadie Bailey -- What I'm writing now is not the Great Poem, no Masterpiece - it's really not so hot. Doesn't matter that I'm on the spot, or if
East Coast Swing is May’s Community Dance Class
Monday, May 1, 7 - 9 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall -- from Bill Gincig -- Local instructors are again offering their community dance class on Monday, May 1, from 7 to 9 pm at the
Morris: Victoria to Get Sewage Treatment Plant
-- from Rep. Jeff Morris -- This year has...seen the resolution of a problem that has affected our shores for decades. Victoria, BC does not have full sewage treatment for their city and most waste
April Poetry | What The Leaves Say
What The Leaves Say -- JoEllen Moldoff -- The leaves are in conversation this morning as always, discussing how foolish we are to run from place to place as if we expect to find something
Great Islands Clean Up Cleans Up on Orcas
-- from ORS/The Exchange and Orcas Elementary School -- Some of the litter gathered in three hours of clean up by caring volunteers on Saturday Big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in
“The Universe in Verse” Live-Streamed
Streamed live at 4 p.m Pacific time, Monday, April 24 -- from Brain Pickings by Maria Popova-- This "labor-of-love [is a] celebration of science and protest against the defunding of the arts. (Original announcement below.)
SJIMA Introduces “Paint and Sip” Evenings
-- from Debbie Pigman -- Paradise Cove The San Juan Islands Museum of Art (SJIMA) will kick of its 2017 Art for Fun program in May. Art for Fun is a “paint and
Coming of Age – Regardless of Age
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- One theme of Aging- Who Me? is that we are never not aging. We are never not developing, growing, unfolding, evolving. We are in fact in a constant state of
Orcas Center Invites Public to Meet New Executive Director
Sunday, April 30, 3 - 5 p.m., Orcas Center -- from Tom Fiscus -- Orcas Center’s Board of Trustees is pleased to invite its members and the general public to a welcome dessert potluck reception
April Poetry | At The Foundation
At The Foundation -- Carla Stanley -- Small house with big intentions in suspension sits near the forest waist clutch close in field it rests with bricks thick as they could be made by hands
This Senior Project Event All About Prom Dresses
Sunday, April 30, 3 p.m., Eastsound Fire Station -- from Alex Conrad -- Orcas Island High School senior Ella Conrad announces “Sirens of Orcas,” a fun, charitable formal/prom dress fashion event for our island community.
Celebrate Mother Earth All Weekend
SATURDAY, APRIL 22 GREAT ISLANDS CLEAN-UP ON EARTH DAY (Saturday, April 22, 9 - 12 pm) It is time for the 2017 Great Islands Clean-Up, the annual county-wide greening event where volunteers collect litter from
April Poetry | Come With Me
COME WITH ME -- Ingrid Karnikis -- Come with me along the path around the barn, through summer-scented, tall-grown hay, to the orchard where grape vines tangle thick and green. There you will find a
