January 27 – February 3, 2017
Helen, who also sings and writes, set out on a mission to draw every day in hopes that she’d get better. After a year of this, she reports on the state of her art. I personally think she should leave a couple things for the rest of us to do.
Cameron, who’s never been to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, takes us to the ocean-bound Norwegian island and deep under a mountain, where she’s certain we’ll find warmth, comfort, and safety, bar the polar bears.
Sarah takes us to another magic place, the Tongass National Forest — so rich and diverse and seemingly endless, it’ll never go away. Which is typical idiot human thinking for, why protect abundance when you can protect the places you’ve almost killed off?
The toughest, strongest, bad-ass hard-core macho guy Erik knows isn’t a climber or hiker or mountaineer or cage fighter, it’s this skinny jungle-bugs entomologist.
Some time ago I fell in love with the Capital Weather Gang and took them for my personal meteorological saviors. Do we go ahead with the block party with a forecast of rain? I mount my pulpit; I read the moving fronts, the CAPE, the probabilities, the certainty; we go ahead and it doesn’t rain.
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Drawing by Sarah G.