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Life and Times of a Hummingbird Family
My body sighed, as if a sense of complete and utter relief had come across me. It was a funny feeling, and though unusual to me, I am sure it is an experience that many parents have had while raising their children.
I had spent the past 42 days watching an Anna’s Hummingbird nest, starting before the two M&M-sized eggs hatched to the day the young fledged, and began their adult lives. I realized the day they left how attached and captivated I had become, realizing how on edge I was during the entire time spent watching them grow.
I began to personify the process of raising two miniscule, hungry hummingbirds. I empathisized with the would-be thoughts and woes of the poor mother, who spent literally every hour of her time caring for her young, sometimes feeding them every 10 minutes on a day-to-day basis.
Poetry Activism
I came to know Phil while attending a two weekend Poetry Broadside Printing Workshop at his new business and event center at the old VFW Hall. The workshop was led by Bevis with the help of a graphic artist, Annie Brulé. In the workshop, several of us poets learned the history of the Broadside in European and Early American history, up until the way it is used in our current period. Sometimes revolutionary, sometimes whimsical, the broadside has been a way for the poet to grab the attention of the passing viewer, and bring them into interfacing with the poem. This is sometimes involuntarily, due to the pure natural reaction by the viewer to the poem.
Tide Going Out for The Riptide?
The Vashon School District, despite Superintendent Soltzman’s commendable personal fund raising efforts which brought in an additional $450,000 to the district this fiscal year, is yet facing a $100,000 budget shortfall this year. In order to make up that shortfall the district will use any additional source of revenue it can find, and in this case it is absorbing the revenue which previously funded the journalism program of the high school.
Voice of Vashon
What is the establishment of Vashon’s local cable television channel, Voice of Vashon and the importance of local content in this rapidly changing environment of media? KVI Radio Tower Vashon …
Vashon is an Island
We think there is a lot going on here on this little island in the Puget Sound. If you would like to submit something, we’d love to see what you …
