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Invertebrates Return to Eden ||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Cynthia Brast-Bormann Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 when we welcome independent entomologist Cynthia Brast-Bormann with her presentation about turning your Curiosity into Conservation! Advocating for bugs in our yards, gardens, and beyond. Inspired by Joni
||| FROM EMMA HELVERSON for WILD FISH CONSERVANCY ||| This week, new research was published in the journal of Communications Earth & Environment sounding a grave warning for endangered Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW) and highlighting urgent conservation measures necessary to stem their pending extinction. While projecting rapid population collapse in roughly 40 years’ time
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| Instead of sparking joy in many readers, my most recent column sparked guilt. They wanted to choose to organize and clear away unwanted stuff, but the guilt was too much. They found something else to do instead. Sometimes we aren’t cognizant of who’s making choices within
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| I’m always moved and inspired by my clients. For me it’s not just a job. It’s a lifelong journey of exploring how every single one of us lives our real lives. We can’t not be living our real lives, however, we can live in a story,
||| FROM KEITH LIGHT ||| Cara Cohn is in the hospital working her hardest to recover from emergency surgery. This was her 11th leg surgery. For those of us who know Cara, we have witnessed the great contributions she makes daily in our community, including her work in vocational rehab here in San Juan County.
||| FROM ELLEN ROBERTS for FRIDAY HARBOR FILM FESTIVAL ||| Friday Harbor Film Festival’s FREE Best of the Fest series begins with showing The Space Race at the San Juan Island Grange on Friday, January 19 at 7 pm, followed by a livestream Q&A about the film. Details are available at fhff.org. The First Film:
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| At this time of year, we are celebrating the presence of miracles. We are celebrating the coming of the light. We are celebrating the potentiality for peace, an engaged presence, love, joy, harmony. We imagine the possibility. We hope for the resolution of conflict within families,
||| FROM B.J. ARNOLD for ORCAS ISLAND ARTWORKS ||| The Orcas Island Artworks features “THE KELP SERIES” by Shawna Marie Franklin through the month of December. Internally motivated by the rapid degradation of the planet and in her life long study of the complexity of the natural world, Shawna’s ongoing projects represent a personal pursuit
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Orcas Center and the Orcas Dance Collective are proud to present a maritime take on a holiday classic: The Sea Island Nutcracker. With over 50 performers and 180+ costumes, this rendition of the holiday classic features many wildlife and nautical themes that make our island home so
||| FLOTSAM & JETSAM by MAURICE AUSTIN ||| Among the joys of rolling out of bed early on Turkey Day at O’ Dark Thirty and heading for the Red Eye—loading the last bits of the load by headlamp even though missing the headlamp—is that one or another essential item for the excursion might be missed.