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For them that must obey authority That they do not respect in any degree Who despise their jobs, their destinies Speak jealously of them that are free Do what they do just to be Nothing more than something they invest in.
Excerpt from It’s Alright, Ma- Bob Dylan
I’m not really sure why it popped into my head as I was contemplating this particular meditation, but it did. At the time of those times of Dylan the Younger, when the other major groundswelling of activism pulsed through my generation, I was living in Leave it to Beaver land, where protest consisted of refusing to eat that liver no matter how "good" it was for me, secretly not wearing my retainers for three nights in a row and faking sleep and exhaustion when the call came down for everyone to get in the station wagon to go to church.
On Monday, Nov. 21, the Vashon Maury Island Community Council will host three speakers: Sergeant John Hall of the King County Sheriff’s Department, who will discuss the drug, crime and safety issues on the island; real estate agent Jean Bosch, who will explain house sales and foreclosure statistics; and Paul Reitenbach, King County Councilman, who will take comments and answer questions about the draft of the King County Comprehensive Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at McMurray School.
The Vashon Island Chorale presents "Dona Nobis Pacem - Grant Us Peace" with concerts at Bethel Church on Saturday, Dec. 3, 7:30pm and Sunday, Dec. 4, 3:00pm. Under the direction of Gary D. Cannon, Artistic Director, the program features songs of the holiday season and Dona Nobis Pacem a masterwork by Ralph Vaughan Williams with soloists Jennifer Krikawa and Andrew Krikawa. The Signature Brass Quintet also will perform along with a full orchestra under the direction of Karin Choo.
Tickets $12.50/general, $10 senior/student can be purchased at the Vashon Book Shop, the Blue Heron and www.brownpapertickets.com.
Cascadia ‘10 is the echo of Afrobeat in the Pacific Northwest--a sound resonating from Nigeria to the Emerald City. They are a small army of 11 experienced musicians, bringing hypnoticly funky music to hips and feet where ever they go. They have opened for national acts, such as Garaj Mahal, and they will be recording a live radio broadcast for KEXP in May, which will be available for download this Summer.
Weird Load was formed in the early ‘90’s as an offshoot road-ready version of Captain Dick and the Portholes.
Fronted by the guitar and vocals of Chris Craggs, the group became an instant favorite from Vashon to Southeast Alaska. Craggs is known for his wild versions of slightly obscure covers, as well as crafty originals.
A few tickets are still available for two November Chamber concerts, Friday and Saturday, Nov 18 and 19, 7:30 pm, at the Blue Heron.
Islander and Series Co-Artistic Director Rowena Hammill, will play cello. Guest musicians include violinist Victoria Parker, Pianist Cristina Valdes and violist Heather Bentley. Composer Alex Shapiro will be hand to talk about her piece at Friday’s performance.
It’s a Thanksgiving Eve tradition! The Seattle International Standup Comedy Finals are a great way to relax with friends and family the night before Turkey Day! Tickets are $17/15. The Vashon Theatre will host day two of the finals, November 23, at 8pm.
The finals conclude Sunday, November 27, at the Comedy Underground in Seattle.
On Saturday November 19th, at 7 p.m. the Vashon-based Big Joy Project, a documentary and website about poet and filmmaker James Broughton (1913-1999), will show a series of short films at Café Luna, as part of Peter Ray’s Lunavision series.
Three of experimental filmmaker James Broughton’s most quirky, joyous and taboo-breaking short films, as well as a 20-minute "sneak preview" of the Big Joy documentary will screen. Broughton films include, "Four in the Afternoon," "The Bed," and "Testament."
Time to check in on the state of things. As you know, we are in the third year of a great recession that was supposed to be mostly over in two years. I think that initial forecast was due more to wishful thinking than a studied assessment. Estimates now call for 4-6 years, and that is definitely wishful thinking. As much of our resource base is depleted or severely strained, we can’t go back to the world we knew before 2008. I’ve noticed again this year the reappearance of the moronic speculation as to whether we will consume ourselves out of the doldrums with an orgy of Christmas spending. Spend what? Our future earnings, I guess, when we get the job that was created by the debt we just put on our plastic. The scary part is this sort of thing is the best they can come up with. I think the only stable economies in the world right now are in the pockets of traditional subsistence farming that we haven’t managed to mess up yet.
The Vashon Farmers Market is moving into the warm and dry Vashon High School Commons beginning November 12 through December 10, 2011. Besides offering shelter from the weather, this central location also offers ample parking. The Farmers Market had great success holding the final two markets of 2010 in the VHS Commons, so we look forward to even greater results by conducting the last four markets at this location. More than 35 farmers and crafters will participate in these final markets.
We’d like the women of Vashon/Maury to help us design Hestia Retreat, a sanctuary for women. Lend your creativity by sharing what you’d love Hestia to look like, and what programs you’d like to see offered there. Come learn more about this exciting retreat center, and meet the women who are bringing the vision to life.
At a recent dinner party at Suzanna Leigh’s house, she served the most delicious Tennessee Cornpone I’ve tasted in years. The difference: She spiced the beans and included whole kernels in the cornpone. Together cornmeal and beans give you complete protein.
Selective thinning of young Douglas fir trees and harvesting a stand of mature red alder in Vashon Island’s Island Center Forest (ICF) will help improve overall forest health and also provide income for additional land-management activities on the 363-acre forest.
King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks staff and the Vashon Forest Stewards will share information on these proposed forest-management activities at the Nov. 15 Friends of Island Center Forest meeting
Community Cinema Vashon presents a community screening of WE STILL LIVE HERE - AS NUTAYUNEAN - A film by Anne Makepeace - Sunday - Nov 20th - Ober Park Performance Room at 3:00pm. This 60 minute documentary film will be followed by a moderated audience discussion. All islanders with Native American Cultural Heritage are especially invited to share their experiences and knowledge of their history with Native language and cultural identity. This interesting film is appropriate for all ages and youth are encouraged to attend. All Community Cinema events are FREE. We hope that you will join us for this exceptional and seasonally significant film - as we think of our traditional National Thanksgiving Holiday.
Hallowe’en is past, and the next day the Christmas products appeared, at least on the shelves that weren’t already decked with Christmas products. That stuff has been in the big stores on the mainland since August.
All my life the Christmas shopping season has left me feeling inadequate and disorganized about Christmas shopping and gift giving. There is a reason for that feeling: I am inadequate and disorganized when it comes to Christmas shopping and gift giving. I’m the one waiting to mail packages at the post office on December 23rd, for example.
On Saturday, November 5, Open Space throws open our doors from 4pm to 7pm for another round of Happy Hour – a fabulous, fun ladies event featuring Runway Fashion Shows, Onstage Demos, Beauty & Pampering, Retail Therapy, an Eco-Chic Clothing Exchange, and Dancing On Demand!
While final figures were not available by the time The Loop needed to go to press, preliminary figures for this year’s Fur Ball , the primary annual fund-raising event for Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP), suggest that the soirée was a smashing success.
October 20, 2011. Vashon Island, my house, 4:40am. This is the last article in the Amanda Knox series; she is home, looking to the future and Vashon has been euphoric for the past few weeks. When she visited Thriftway recently, she received hugs and accolades from the folks who saw her at the store. No I haven’t seen her; I’m not her personal friend, but felt enormous relief to see her at SeaTac surrounded by her family. Someday, if it’s meant to be, I’d love to give Amanda the biggest hug, but I’m completely fine just having her home. To tell the truth, all I need to be happy is to see her hugging her Dad and Mom.
At Loop deadline, orcas have been absent from Vashon–Maury waters in October 2011. Before Seattle media outlets declare prematurely that the Southern Residents have returned to lower Puget Sound, they should do some good, old-fashioned fact-checking.
Southern Residents visited Island waters just twice in October 2010. November arrival would be well within normal limits.
He’s had a bad day at work. ( but it could be any negative trigger) He comes home and finds you are doing laundry. The noise bugs him. Suddenly the peace and joy you were feeling oozes out of your body as fear of the unknown floods in every vein and artery.
As the election circus revs up once again, it is clear that we are way too busy fighting with each other to even begin to deal with some very serious problems. At a time when our very lives depend on quick and decisive action, we are instead completely absorbed in finger pointing and name-calling. As the rest of the world looks on and shakes their collective head, the question is: will the people of the United States be able to shake off this insanity and begin to act rationally or will they drag the world down in flames? In terms of priorities, the very real and serious problems we face must defer to the problem of our inability to act.
In our household, we enjoy an occasional beef tenderloin or a helping of wild king or coho salmon, but we’ve come to feel that if we don’t have beans of one kind or another sometime during each day, we have not eaten well.
Brown rice and beans complement each other’s proteins to provide all the necessary nutrition of a whole protein. Beans help your cells to replicate themselves when their necessary aptosis (read ‘death’)
A critical analysis of the Vietnam War has long since been left to historians. But what still is important today is honoring those soldiers left standing, and those who lost their lives fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. On 1st Friday, October 7, 2011, Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum did just that through their exhibit, Home of Record: Vashon and the Vietnam War.
Vashon’s own music, comedy, variety show will present their Halloween Spooktacular on Sunday October 30th at Open Space. The show will be tricked out with thrills, chills and great gobs of ghoulish humor featuring twisted news and irreverent views from the Holy Roller Radio Players and uplifting music by the Church House Band.
Marshall Murray, who recently performed in Drama Dock’s Rocky Horror Show, joins the cast and special musical guest Scott Huckabay brings his guitar artistry to the stage.
Our wars are still going on, although we want them to stop – they haven’t stopped, and it won’t stop for quite a while. In Iraq the fighting and dying may be ending, but not in Afghanistan. This means more wounded are lying in battlefield hospitals, still others are waiting to be transported to hospitals stateside and still more are in hospitals here in Washington State, waiting for their wounds to heal so that they can return home. Regardless of our own personal stand on all this, we can do something.
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