Stories for January 2023

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Wednesday, January 25

2023 garden trend highlights: Robots and witches

A roundup of predicted garden trends worldwide for 2023.

Wednesday, January 11

Reconnecting to Native heritage: Canoe-carving center planned

UIATF hosts January blessing ceremony for new canoe-carving center.

Taking over the reins

New exec director has big shoes to fill

Gabriel-Bello Lawrence-Diaz is the new executive director of Coyote Central, a non-profit art program for youth in Seattle. He was hired this summer after co-founder and former program director Marybeth Satterlee and executive director Claudia Stelle retired.

Wednesday, January 4

Contemporary dance studio opening in former Queen Anne church

With 2023 less than a week in, things are already shaping up to be an exciting year for Whim W’Him, a contemporary dance studio in Seattle.

Falling Awake: Connection in my grocery bag

This is the first time in nearly a month that I’ve sat to write anything but a list. One in the kitchen that had to remember to find its way into my bag before I left the house, and one that was never allowed to leave my bag in the first place. I never keep lists on my phone. God forbid, I should lose my phone.

Trailblazing condos prepare

The December 2022 news announcement: Some freeways may be useable following ‘the Big One’ per new modeling by University of Washington - OPB sounded reassuring. But it’s not that simple.

McGilvra Elementary PTA hosting annual fundraiser

The McGilvra Elementary Parent Teacher Association is hosting its McGilvra Annual Fund Drive through February.

Coyote Central has worked to inspire youth artists for almost 40 years

Coyote is an inclusive arts education organization geared toward 10- to 15-year-olds. According to the non-profit organization’s mission statement, “Coyote sparks creativity in young people, putting tools in their hands to build skills and forge their futures.”

What Seattle read in 2022: The Seattle Public Library’s most checked-out books

Curious about which books Seattle’s insatiable readers turned to in 2022? Need a little inspiration for that 2023 book list?

Revisiting the Park: Belonging

There was little chance of joining any social groups in the early ’40s since we traveled from one military base to another. Dad’s assignments were in Southern California, and often my classmates spoke only Spanish. According to Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, many were Okies escaping from the hard-hit “drought-ravaged corners of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico but especially the impoverished parts of Oklahoma (the origin of one fifth of Okies), Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri.”

Tree Talk: From tiny acorns grow …

I literally uttered these words aloud, strolling alone, on the north end of McGilvra Boulevard East. There it stood, nearing 100 feet in height, a perfect specimen of the pin oak (Quercus palustris). I have passed this tree hundreds of times. The difference was that it was leafless on that recent day. The structure, the stature, the power of the tree stood out in naked splendor. It was not unlike rounding the corner of the Accademia in Florence and looking down the hall to see Michelangelo’s David for the first time (a memorable moment that made my wife burst into tears). No hyperbole here, that oak on that day was equally moving to me.

Ode to the moon — healing in darkness

“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.”