Here’s a thought…
“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
How will Eastsound look in the future? EPRC hosts "Open House" May 4 at Senior Center
The Eastsound Planning and Review Committee (EPRC) will host an Open House on Monday, May 4, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Senior Center. After deciding on their top priorities for the year, the Committee, composed of Mindy Kayl, retiring Chair, Gulliver Rankin, Chair, Bob Connell, Audrey
Reception this afternoon for Spring Awakening Art Show
An Artist's Reception will open the "Spring Awakening" Art Showing by Michael Gerard Mele from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today, May 1 at the Senior Center. The photographic display will continue through the month of May. Mele's photos, in honor of Mothers, Mother's Day and Mother Earth, feature the sights
Spectacular University High School Choir performs May 1
On Friday May 1st at 7:30 p..m, University High School from Spokane, WA, will present a concert at the Orcas School Old Gym, hosted by the Orcas School Music Program. This concert is free of charge, and will consist of two of University High School’s top performance
Chamber Music Festival brings Shangrow back for Music Lovers Seminar
Contributed by Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival Mary Poletti introduces Music Lovers' Seminars by asking questions. "Simply love the music? Curious about the origins and context of a piece of music? Or enjoy the challenge of following the developing theme central to a composer's work?" While Catherine Pederson's motive for
Business Essentials: Internet Marketing for Small Business
Do You Twitter? Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce Executive Director will help you tweet, flicker and otherwise interface with the new social networking websites at anohtter Chamber "Business Essentials" class. Evans says, "You have your website up, but is that enough to bring attention to your business or organization? What
Poem for the Day: Nostalgia
Nostalgia Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the decade, and I was draped in one of those capes that were popular, the ones with unicorns and pomegranates in needlework. Everyone would pause for beer and onions in
Ready for kindergarten in the fall? Find out at Orcas Elementary
Today and tomorrow, April 29 and 30, children who will be five years old by Sept. 1, 2009, and their parents can visit the Orcas School library and and meet teachers who will visit with them at various stations and lead them through various exercises at tables for
Ten Minute Play Festival begins weekend run
Orcas Island's local playwrights' festival sponsored by Actors Theater of Orcas Island begins at the Grange this Thursday night, April 30. The festival was created to encourage local island talent to show off their skills, or to challenge islanders to develop new skills in writing, acting and directing. As with
Holcomb and Horvitz share the bill with Twirl at the Center May 9
Orcas Center presents Orcas' own brother-sister duo Twirl on a shared bill with influential Seattle-based musicians Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz for one performance only, on Saturday May 9 at 7:30 pm. Twirl is Grace McCune (Beauty in Beauty and the Beast) and her older brother Clint McCune.
Living Room hosts mystic scholar May 9
Writer and mystic scholar Andrew Harvey will be in the San Juans over Mother's Day weekend. The Living Room is hosting a workshop from 1 to 6 p.m. on Saturday May 9 from 1 to 6 p.m. Harvey is a writer, translator and editor of many books, including: A Journey in
Writers Festival ready for early bird registration
The second annual Orcas Island Writers Festival will be held September 17-20, 2009, in the town of Eastsound on Orcas Island. Early Bird registration began Saturday, April 25. The Orcas Island Writers Festival is a unique event, a place to grow as a writer, meet other writers and readers, and
Poem for the Day: The Waking
I wake to sleep and take my waking slow, I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear I wake to sleep and
Friday brings school art show opening and school choir performance
Contributed by Barb Skotte Friday, May 1st, is a busy day for lovers of school arts programs. The month-long all-island student art show begins at Orcas Center, with an open house from 3:30-6:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to come see the works of our many talented student artists! Also that
Orcas Library Postpones Possible Expansion
At a Library Board meeting on April 13th, the Trustees decided unanimously to defer looking into a library expansion possibility because of the current economic downturn. John Ashenhurst, Board President, told the Trustees that specific donations, once thought available to fund the construction phase of the expansion, had been withdrawn
Maple Rock hosts "Open Farm" for new and seasoned gardeners
John Steward and farming interns of Maple Rock Farm were kept busy all day Saturday, April 25, as visitors came in changeable weather to the farm on Pneeo Road. Visitors were able to purchase plant starts and get advice on planintg condand growing conditions from Maple Rock Farm
Poem for the Day: A Brief for the Defense
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants. Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not be fashioned so
