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Vashon Household current project is the construction of 14 affordable homes for low-income first-time buyers. Sunflower Community Land Trust (CLT), built in partnership with Northwest Summer is almost over and so are in for a special treat. Join us for these Housing Development, will be the first Vashon Household project to earn a Built-Green rating. the annual free Summer Concerts In The magical evenings and enjoy the diversity Vashon Household Homeshare affordable housing on Vashon? Park. Bring the family! There’s plenty of these amazing bands right here on Partners connects people who are * Do you have an extra room in your of grass and natural burms to spread out Vashon Island. interested in sharing their home with house with access to a bathroom and those picnic blankets and enjoy some On Thursday, September 4th at 7pm, another Islander seeking a home. We kitchen? wonderful music on a warm summer we bring you The Portage Philharmonic. require detailed applications, references, * Would you benefit from additional night. Families can come relax, let the Comprised of about 20 Islanders and background checks to make the monthly income? kids play on the playground and enjoy ranging from professional musicians to process of finding a housemate more * Would you benefit from services the entertainment at these summer amateurs, the community musical group manageable. All information is kept such as help with housework, cooking, events in our very own Ober Park. is celebrating its 41st anniversary this confidential. When a person seeks a petcare, gardening etc.? The concerts are presented and year. Charter member Lou Engels still Homeshare situation through Homeshare Homesharing is an option for all funded by Vashon Park District in plays in the band. Partners, they are drawing from a select ages. For both housemates, homesharing association with Vashon Events. Engels remembers how Monty group of qualified applicants, rather than offers a more affordable way of living, If you’ve never experienced the Sewell, who once played with Louie the very broad reach of a public listing the security of another person in the warmth of community at the cool nights Armstrong, helped found the band such as Craig’s List. home, and the opportunity to create a of summer concerts in the park, you’re Continued on Page 6 Our greatest need is to enroll lifelong friendship. additional home providers in the Anyone who is interested in applying program. Please explore the concept with as a home provider or a home seeker may your circle of friends and acquaintances. contact Barbara Brown at 206-463-4880 * Are you interested in supporting x704 to request an application. Vashon Opera presents Don Giovanni Vashon Opera’s sixth season kicks off The Rebel of the Road! in September with Mozart’s Don Giovanni, considered one of the greatest operas of all time. Don Giovanni is an opera in 2 Acts based on the legends of Don Juan, chronicling the Don’s final twenty-four hours of this notorious libertine’s wicked life with gorgeous arias and brilliant ensembles. Watch as the Don pushes his limits and meets his ultimate demise in this brilliantly crafted masterwork. Part comedy, part tragedy this opera is Mozart at his finest, sparkling with music full of sheer genius, dynamic characters and some bold supernatural payback. Sung in Italian with English Supertitles. Come be engulfed by the fast-paced Belov as Don Giovanni, Janeanne Houston action, entranced by the exquisite music, as Donna Anna, Eric Neuville as Don and transformed by the power and Ottavio, Megan Chenovick as Zerlina, expression of the human voice! Jonathan Silvia as Leporello, Jennifer Hey all you old car and movie buffs, have we got a show for you! On Saturday He’s bad. He’s dangerous...and even Krikawa as Donna Elvira, Michael Dunlap the 30th at 5:00 in the evening we will have a showing of one of the best hot rod though his serenades are just divine, fate as Masetto, and Konstantin Kvach as the movies of all time, The Rebel of the Road! This is an all-ages, family-friendly (made has a way of balancing the books. Commendatore. Dr. James Brown will for television in 1979) film that features a lot of character actors of the era and stars Don Giovanni, considered one of return to stage direct, conduct and arrange a gray primered 40 Willys gasser coupe. The movie centers itself around the classic the greatest operas of all time. He’s bad. the chamber orchestral score as he has concept that many vintage Western novels ( think Louis L’ Amour) and films are He’s dangerous...and even though his done so beautifully with Werther, Die based upon, that of the good guy riding into the town controlled by the rich, bad serenades are just divine, fate has a way Fledermaus, Il Tabarro/Gianni Schicchi guy and taking the big guy down as the townsfolk cheer our hero on. However, in of balancing the books. and so many of Vashon Opera’s stunning this story, the good guy’s stallion is a straight-axles Willys, and he throws down “The singers are extraordinary, the productions. This will be Vashon Opera’s with a blown Hemi instead of a six-gun. Sound interesting? Come join us Saturday chorus is bright and fun, the orchestra is first production in the new Vashon High evening starting with a classic car/hot rod show at 4p.m. In front of The Vashon excellent and all of the amazing Vashon School Theatre. Theater followed by the 5p.m. showing of the film. Security will be eyeing the ve Opera volunteers have really outdone Purchase Season tickets for $32 online hicles while their owners are enjoying the film. Following the film we would themselves this time for sure!”, says at www.vashonopera.org like to encourage the car owners to relive their youth and hang-out uptown while Jennifer Krikawa. Individual tickets for $35 at the cruising their ride in endless loops. The star studded cast includes Anton Vashon Bookshop and at vashonopera.org. The Vashon Loop, p. 2 August 28 ‘14 Back to School Supplies at Granny’s Prices! paper, crayons pens, pencils 3 ring binders backpacks coats, hats clothes and more!

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The parents have been fundraising all summer to send these young men in December to a team building tournament in Arizona. They have worked hard but nothing in comparison to their coach, Andy Sears.We would like to thank him and his family for all of Registration Sci-Fi Sunday: his time and immense enthusiasm he expresses,he brings a special for Chorale Minority Report energy to all his interactions with our young men and for this we are very grateful. Singers Due to low attendance on Please come out and support our Vashon Island Pirates Saturday I’ve moved Sci-Fi Basketball team on the first Friday Art Walk on September 5th. We New and returning singers Saturday to Sunday. It’s still on are invited to register for will be situated in the OCCU building, located in the Thriftway the 1st Sunday of each month, still parking lot. Come enjoy some wonderful art, enter our fantastic the Vashon Island Chorale’s the same time. raffle and help support our amazing team! Get cheered on by some next session which begins on This month for Sci-Fi Sunday: of our very own VHS cheerleaders for your efforts, and even enjoy Tuesday, Sept. 9 and culminates Minority Report. a baked good or two. in concerts on Dec. 6 & 7. Based on a short story by the Where: OCCU building across from Vashon Thriftway. Registration will take place late Philip K. Dick, this science When: September 5th, 5 pm - whenever the party ends! at the library on Thursday, fiction-thriller reflects the writer’s Aug. 28 from 6 to 7:30 and familiar preoccupation with Please come out to show your support for our Vashon Pirates on Saturday, Aug. 30 from themes of concealed identity and Basketball, and help them reach their goal to compete in Arizona 10:30 to noon. Dues are $55 mind control. this December. We hope to see you there! and music costs approximately Tom Cruise stars as John $25. For additional registration Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton information, email Karen Baer: works for “Precrime,” a special unit of the police department that arrests Green Party’s monthly meeting [email protected]. murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Directed by Steven Spielberg, who hired a team of futurists to devise Come to the Vashon-Maury Island Green Party monthly the film’s numerous technologically advanced gadgets, Minority Report meeting (second Tuesday of each month) at Joy Goldstein’s home. co-stars Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, and Neal McDonough. Join the fun! Share you thoughts about local, state, national, and This film is brought to you by The Chicken Soup Brigade, please world events. VCC Caregiver bring canned food items and admission of $5-$10 for the box office. DATE: Tuesday, September 9, 7:00 to 9:00 PM Support Group The Chicken Soup Brigade is part of Life Long AIDS Alliance. LLAA LOCATION: 10329 SW Bank Road, Vashon has many programs and CSB is one of them. The Brigade gathers food, DIRECTIONS: From Vashon center, go west on SW Bank Vashon Community Care distributes it at a warehouse in Seattle in the form of a bag of groceries Road 0.3 miles. will host a Family Caregiver and prepared meals, has a meals on wheels program, helps with some Joy’s home is on the south side. Park along Bank Road. Support group open to all family of their bills by means of vouchers, people volunteer to give hair cuts, Major Topics: caregivers in the community. drive people to their appointments or take them on day outings, give Vashon Tool Library on its way; The Healthcare Movie; You It will take place the first them free theatre tickets and so forth. name it. Thursday of each month from What we see on Vashon is one of the most love oriented actions, Questions: Melvin Mackey, Secretary, (206) 463-3468 7-9 pm. Contact cara.aguilera@ gathering food. “Care to Shop” began almost 20 years ago in Seattle providence.org/ 567-6152 with and it seemed like such an easy way to express your love and care for questions. the sick. When the monthly totals come in Vashon has the distinction of besting the Seattle efforts 10 fold. If they raise 800lbs, we gather 1,500lbs! A Community Meeting Space at It has almost with out fail been twice as much! And that from 1 store vs their 10 stores!! They had to create an award for us and what we do. The Country Store & Farm Sunday, September 7th, 1:30pm at the Vashon Theatre. The Country Store & Farm has converted a portion of its Marijuana This is for Chicken Soup Brigade, please bring canned food items upstairs into a community meeting space. “I heard that there is Anonymous and admission of $5-$10 for the box office. a need for community meeting spaces on the Island,” explains Marijuana Anonymous, Country Store owner, Mike Biel. “Half of our upstairs was vacant Presbyterian Church so I thought that we could fill a need.” The space is freshly painted Fridays 7 pm” Make a date with Vashon! with new blinds, tables and chairs and is ready to welcome groups of up to 30. The room is available to non-profits at no charge. For- www.VashonCalendar.com profits can rent the room for $25.00 an hour (paid at the time of Vashon Library Events booking) or $35.00 paid at the time of the meeting. 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A bike ride along Vashon Island’s so you can share the pain. rolling central roadway fails to reveal the Along the journey, riders get their steep challenges that can be found at the P2P passport stamped at eighteen island’s edges. On Saturday, September strategic checkpoints, where food, 13, 2014, hundreds of area cyclists will friends, photo ops and fun await. The spend their entire day at those edges, more checkpoints reached, the better the taking on all of Vashon’s least fair, chance for prizes at the huge raffle that most gnarly hills, during the 4th annual happens at the post-ride barbecue. Passport To Pain. Due to increased interest, the 2014 P2P is steadily gaining a reputation Passport to Pain will be capped at 400 for being the toughest bike ride in the riders. To register, or for course maps Puget Sound, with riders able to choose and more info, go to http://www. the degree of “crazy” they’re willing to passport2pain.org. Passport to Pain is a endure. The IDIOT ride covers 10,000 feet fundraiser for the Vashon Island Rowing of vertical gained over a brutal 80-mile Club. circuit of the Island. The WEASEL ride For more information, contact Nancy is 50 miles and 6,500 feet of vertical. The Foster-Moss, Ride Director: 206.372.4391 WEENIE is a mere 30 miles and 3,400 or [email protected] feet. There’s also a team option this year Larry Murante

Larry Murante’s beautifully woven radio airplay from all over the country stories about every day folks, set to and parts of Europe. Larry has racked song combine compassionate, socially up a string of accolades in recent years, conscious lyrics and an upbeat, joyful, the most notable being the Grand Prize energetic folk/rock style. Jackson Winner in the folk category of the Brown, Lyle Lovett, Hal Ketchum and international John Lennon Songwriting Michael McDonald are all reflected in Contest. Larry also recently won the his music. Larry is known for his soaring, West Coast Songwriters Song Contest mellifluous, tenor, a strong rhythmic and the Great American Song Contest guitar style and an engaging stage and was a two time finalist at the presence. Kerrville Grassy Hill Newfolk Contest. With his third CD release, Point Of Saturday, August 30th, 5pm, at The Entry, has garnered critical acclaim and Vashon Golf & Swim Club.

Find the Loop on-line at Compost the Loop www.vashonloop.com The Loop’s soy-based ink is good for composting. August 28 ‘14 the ravages of winter. I’m sure that in some The Vashon Loop, p. 5 circles I am now known as “that guy who Island Life is always taking pictures of the parking lot”. I just can’t help it- whoever does the Hallway of Ghosts patching has a good hand, and the patterns By Peter Ray and scrawls seem to be something between I have been locked into a different a southwest petroglyph and a Franz routine as of late. My day generally begins Kline or Jackson Pollock painting. I could with a plate of eggs and a cup of coffee that probably spend days photographing the I carry out onto the back deck. Rather than petroleum based patterns and calligraphy, staring into my eggs, my gaze generally but I have other, not necessarily better, migrates from the back field to the top of the things to do. row of pine trees to the sun coming up over There is also the sorting to be done Mount Kearsarge here somewhere near throughout the house, which I am not the southern middle of New Hampshire. allowing myself to be either daunted or My dad was always fascinated by “the intimidated by. Instead, it is a fascinating mountain”, and given that it is a kind journey of surprise and discovery with of bump in the road compared to what something new and different in every we have in the west, I can see why his drawer and closet. I opened one drawer this excitement over seeing Rainier on a clear morning that had black and white photo day made the view from the deck here Christmas cards from the fifties and sixties somewhat pale in comparison. which caught my attention for perhaps a I am now near the end of a garden tour little too long. One of the cabinets I opened around the foundation plantings of the the other day contained an old, hand carved house. This has been a bit of a chore, since wooden box that I remembered from years aside from mowing the lawn, not much past. I picked it up and opened it, and even has been done here in nearly three years. though it appeared empty, the particular It is not a nightmare, as it would have been spicy, woody fragrance that emerged and had this house been situated west of the engulfed me sent me spinning backward Cascades, but here in the rolling hills south through time to thoughts and memories of the White Mountains, gardens don’t go of long ago. Another sensory thing I have crazy as much as they slightly expand and engaged in is reviving my Dad’s old clocks. meander. My favorite tree on the property There was a time when he had them all is an Amur Maple, which I have always going, and each hour and half hour were a liked because of its shape and profusion of chiming cacophony throughout the house. small blooms and large bouquets of seeds, I was sad a few years back when I visited which is where it is at at the moment. It to find that the clocks had all become is the seed clusters however that stand as silent because he just hadn’t bothered to both a fascination and a curse, since they all wind them any more, and the only sound seem to be viable, and as a result there had in the house was the blaring from the Fox been a hedge of seedling amurs along the News channel, which generally was a lot east edge of the breakfast deck that I spent less informative than even one clock bing- the better part of an afternoon crawling bonging the hour of the day. So, having amongst with blue gloves and black found all the keys, I have successfully kneepads while ripping roots from soft soil reactivated the hourly chime fest, and the as I went. As with thoughts of saving some tick-tocking as well as the bells has given of the knick knacks throughout the house, a new life to the silent house. sympathetic inklings of saving the saplings Another thing I have done is open to plant elsewhere soon were subverted doors that I had never seen opened before. by my ruthless, weed killing mindset in There is one short hallway between my order to just get on to yet another area. parents’ master bedroom and the living Sometimes ruthless is a good thing. room that was almost never used. My Another part of the routine involves nephew informed me that he and his going to Clarke’s Hardware almost siblings used to call it the hallway of ghosts, everyday for various implements and since the only thing in there were pictures accessories needed to complete the along the walls of our relatives from long assortment of tasks and repairs: a box of ago. I have no idea who they are, but they brads for the paneling pulling away from do serve to reinforce the belief that people the studs in the basement; a new folding in past times never smiled. They are not, saw to replace my years old one I had however, all stern, and one woman has brought along but wound up breaking the hint of a Mona Lisa smile just starting while sawing out pine tree roots that had to happen. Some day I hope to have the pushed up a brick pathway. I am now a time and the ability to figure out who they familiar face at Clarke’s, and am usually all are, but at the moment I have to get up greeted with the question: ”what is the to Clarkes’ to get some caulking supplies, project for today.” Part of the reason I like and maybe take some parking lot pictures, going to the hardware store is that the so that perhaps at sometime in the future parking lot which sprawls from Clarke’s somebody pawing through all my stuff past the liquor store and on beyond will be saying to themselves: “this looks Hannaford’s grocery to the post office just like tar on asphalt, what the hell was is decorated with squiggles and drips of he thinking?” sealing tar that were laid down to repair

Pudge Needs A Home... Like my name suggests, I beautify my surroundings. I’m young and playful but old enough to be independent. I have plenty of energy which I put to good use with toys. You should see me chase a sparkle ball! Go To www.vipp.org Click on Adopt The Vashon Loop, p. 6 August 28 ‘14 Spiritual The Dance Club that Vashon Smart has always needed... is here From your friends at Open Space for Arts & Community, By Mary Tuel Aleck here’s another reason to not leave the island... and still get time is coming, and that if all The Joys of what you need! the people you knew and loved Presenting: club O Later Life and who knew and loved you You don’t have to spend a I knew a couple, both in are gone, well, heck, who is left weekend night running in to their seventies, who lost a son to remember those dances at Seattle just to find a cool place to suicide. When the mother the Spanish Castle (or Avalon to dance. Now you’ve got replied to my sympathy card, Ballroom) with you? your own place to go, club O: she said that she was sad that Even in age, even in grief, Vashon’s own dance club. her son would not come to know even in physical infirmity, even club O is a regular monthly the joys of later life. knowing that there will be a event, a chance for people to At the time I did not know last dance and you’ll have to bust through the Friday blues about such joys, but a few go home, you can feel the joy of and bust a move instead. The decades have rolled by since being alive. lights will be low, the disco ball and I’m beginning to get it. My husband passed away will spin, and Vashonites can For one thing, by the time last year after many years of dance their hearts out. you’re in your late sixties, illness that ground him down. Each club O night will you’ve had pretty much every I am gradually getting used to feature a wide range of music kneejerk reaction a person can his being gone, though I miss and a full light show put on have, and you understand that him terribly. He was the best by local and off-island DJ’s, drama is best left on the stage, company, and we shared forty bringing what they got to get because in real life drama is a years of history. I don’t think Vashon dancing. Some nights waste of time and energy. the wedding vows are supposed will be theme nights, some For another thing, you begin to be a check list – you know, will be fresh club music, some to make peace with mortality, richer, check; poorer, check; will be old school, all of it will your own and that of other sickness, yeah, dammit; health move you! people. Remember the first – it was nice while it lasted, and Music starts at 8pm, Friday, PERRY’S VASHON time you grasped the fact of so on – but I think we hit most of August 29th and never stops your own expiration? What a those conditions at one time or until the dancers stop dancing.... bummer. You may have felt another during our life together. And it’s All Ages, All the BURGERS terror. You may have wept. When you’re getting married, Time. 17804 Vashon Hwy SW You may have shivered and you’re hearing the vows and Cover is only $5 -- what are shuddered alone in your bed in saying, yeah, yeah, whatever, I you waiting for? the dark. Different people are will. You don’t realize that those Open 10am to 10pm Monday-Saturday bound to have different feelings vows are covering all the things 12pm to 5pm Sunday NO EXCUSES ACCEPTED. about death, but in general I’d that are really going to happen say they’re against it. in a lifetime. Celebrating 10 years Serving Vashon Island Open Space for Arts & I once worked as a chore But I digress. Community is located at 18870 assistant for a 100-year-old So I’m a widow now, and 103rd Ave SW, Vashon. woman, whom I shall call I’m getting old, and I don’t have Mildred (not her name). She was much in the way of worldly in a wheelchair, but her mind fortune. was working fine, thank you. And yet – when I got up this About all she could do anymore morning the sun was shining. I was crochet baby blankets and went out in the yard and pulled Concerts in tell me I’d missed a spot on up a few feverfew plants – don’t Gluten the carpet while vacuuming, worry, they’ll be back. Feverfew the park Free but she was alive and lively is a tenacious plant – and the Continued from Page 1 Buns! for all that. Her 97-year-old exercise made me feel good, as back in 1973. Engels said that cousin, Gertrude (not her name) well as the new unobstructed Sewell owned a music store came to visit one week, and view of the flower bed. I made where Blooms & Things is now while Mildred napped Gertrude a cup of coffee, gave the dog located. told me that some people, like her morning biscuits, and sat “The band has pretty much Mildred, wanted to live forever. on the kitchen porch watching been the same over all the Gertrude said, “I’m 97 and the chestnut-backed chickadees years,” Engels said, “except I’m ready to go any time, but pulling seed out of the bird we have a bigger group of Mildred just wants to go on feeder, and I sang: “My life goes musicians to choose from now. and on.” She shook her head on in endless song, above earth’s All the seats are occupied.” with an air of irritation, as if to lamentation…” When Engels was asked if say, honestly, doesn’t she know Turns out that there are joys he gets any special treatment for when it is time to quit? in old age. Turns out that grace being the sole charter member So apparently the realization rains down, and life bubbles still playing in the band, he said, of your own mortality and your up, and it’s good to be alive, “Yeah, they mention me every feelings about it evolve as you just because, even if you’re once in a while, when the old re-visit the prospect over the lonely and grieving and walk gray beards get up to play.” years. Perhaps as time goes on with a limp and have high Portage Fill rehearses twice you realize, like Gertrude, that cholesterol and life seems too a month in the Williams Heating there might come a time when hard sometimes. garage, thanks to the generosity you are ready to rest. As you So stick around, friends. of Dennis Williams, one of watch friends and family slip You wouldn’t want to miss the the horn players. “We’re the into their eternal rest, you grieve joys of later life. Island’s longest running garage deeply, but you realize that your band,” said band member David Hackett. There will also be several organizations set up at this show that will be on hand to Advertise in the Loop! talk to people, answer questions It’s a great time to get back in the Loop. and accept donations for their [email protected] services. Organizations such Next Loop comes out September 11 as Learn2Earn, IFCH, Dove, VCC, the Senior Center and the Vashon Food Bank...and a Find us on Skype few more. Vashon Loop 206-925-3837 August 28 ‘14 or of your desire for some consistency The Vashon Loop, p. 7 in your life. Rather, it’s an invitation to honor the truth that life not only involves and don’t explain yourself until someone change, it is based on change. This is true tries to stop you. for everything from the development . of an individual fetus to the evolution Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Aries (March 20-April 19) something larger than yourself, but that of a species to how we will respond to Others seem to repeatedly make There’s no point holding on, or at your core, you are yourself, with your the biosphere crisis. Perhaps the single the same mistakes, and there’s nothing stuffing your feelings down, and there feelings and your desires -- and that is all most useful, most beautiful and most you can really do about it. You cannot is no point pushing another person. you need to be. potent human attribute is adaptation. get control over them. What you can There are what seem to be competing You don’t want to give up this power; do is take charge of your life. But rather forces in your psyche right now -- one Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) you want to work with it as closely as than do this in an abrupt or aggressive is saying you must break free, or get Life is a game of truth or dare, or you can. Change is imminent, and the way, I suggest you take the motivation control. Another is saying that you must rather, truth and dare. When you admit truth is it can serve you very well, if you you’re feeling now and convey it into devote yourself to healing. Either way, the truth, you’re more likely to dare. This participate as its creative partner. a longterm commitment. You know you need to vent some energy. You need is an emotional level of alchemy. The what you have to do. You know that to express your life force. And it’s vital reason the truth is so daring is because Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) ultimately you are responsible for your that you not allow what you perceive as it demands action. The way this shows You may be wondering when your own existence. Even if there are outside the constraints of a relationship to stop up in your chart, the first bold step is luck will run out. You’re not there yet, factors influencing you, the quest of you from doing that. Nobody owns you, admitting how you feel. That will take a and you have a long way to go. What I individual consciousness and volition nobody can and they never will. It’s lot of pressure off of you, especially if you suggest you consider is when your fear seems to be about relating to them in possible to convince yourself that they feel like the walls are closing in, or if you will run out. You seem to have reached a tangible way. That, in turn, requires do, and that you don’t really have any have no space to admit to your desire. a limit of how much you can worry, how a high level of awareness, and the choices, and that may be a core belief It seems as if decisions made long ago, concerned you can be, how averse you willingness to stand up for yourself. Yet that you need to address. Equally, if especially those related to your home are to taking the kinds of chances that where that happens first is in your own you feel blocked by not having anyone life, are confining you. And that alone you really want to take. It would seem life. It may involve a revolt against those to share with, it’ll help if you go beyond may be frightening. Yet it would be less that your even greater fear is allowing who conditioned you to be submissive that perceived obstacle and get real about frightening if you would practice some yourself to actually feel. This story is to them, at the expense of your own sharing with yourself. emotional flexibility. Here is a clue -- that older than you, and it may be as old as intentions. But remember -- this is an would feel like losing control. It’s not, civilization, so you don’t have to take it inner revolution, not one conducted on Taurus (April 19-May 20) exactly; what you would be losing is the so personally. For sure there is a family the phone or in the streets. Push could come to shove in a illusion of control, and gaining access to story involved, and I suggest you note relationship, though I suggest you a connection to flow and movement that the relatives whose emotions either ran Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) consider the possibility that none of this allows you to actually steer your boat below the freezing point or never seemed You must have faith in yourself is about you. In other words, what is down the river. to drop below the boiling point. Yet no matter how much your confidence happening with a partner or love interest what is indeed personal is that your own annoys other people. Yet for that to work, is all about them, and not about you. I Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) need to feel is exceeding your resistance. you must maintain an unusual level of don’t mean to imply that they don’t care, Self-critique is not the answer And in one burst, you may experience self-awareness. For many people that or that you don’t matter. I do mean to say to everything, nor is endless mental anything from pain to guilt to raw desire is tricky enough. yet there’s one more that you are not really the subject of their rationalization. You are entitled to feel of a kind that you are often reluctant element involved. You need to observe situation, no matter what it may seem. how you feel. It’s neither right nor wrong. to admit to. Start with yourself. Then your environment with precision, while However, because so much of relating If you don’t like how you feel, you have consider the virtue of living out loud. not taking on the burdens of others, or to other humans involves projecting onto two choices -- one is to understand the the issues they try to lay on you. And others, and introjecting what others send cause and do something about it; another Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) one more. It’s essential not to project our way, the boundary between what is is to change your mind. You can do the You may find yourself in a position your material onto others. The way to mine and what is yours can get extremely second without doing the first, though where you need to take an unpopular accomplish all of this is to maintain fuzzy. You can try to sort things out, or I would say that’s unlikely. In the end, position. That may be the right thing to a high level of inner focus while you you can refer to astrology, which says: you will just have to change your mind. do. I suggest however that you consider maintain a circumspect view of the don’t take on what is not yours -- and The problem with the analysis of cause is what, exactly, you’re pushing back world around you. Account for your at the moment most of what you’re that it can be biased, and in this scenario, against. Do you really need to assert viewpoint, then notice how many other witnessing fits that category. the bias is likely to be against you. The yourself against anyone or anything viewpoints there are. Don’t confuse the thing to remember is that you were outside yourself, or do you just need two. Just because you’re correct does Gemini (May 20-June 21) not born in a vacuum. You entered the to do your thing? It depends on what not mean that someone else has to be Don’t panic. I mean, OK, you can world through multiple strands of DNA, your goal is, which is partly about your wrong. Just because something appears if you want. If you insist. If you think into one or more pre-existing family circumstances. For example, in order to be true does not make you wrong. it would be fun. But would it? If there situations, and with your own personal to make a statement, you don’t need to True confidence goes beyond all of that, is a crux of your fear, it’s an especially karma. While it’s true that things were defend your right to free speech; you just which is why it can be such a source harsh level of criticism that you may done to you, in order to get to the next need to say what’s on your mind. That of aggravation to those who cannot go be inflicting on yourself. However, you level, you will have to go beyond blame. strongly implies that you have a right to there. You know you can. You know it’s don’t look like the original source of the Accountability is another thing, and do so, and you don’t need to make that time. And you know that faith trumps data. It looks like you’re carrying around that requires documentation, multiple extra point. It seems that you want to find hope any day. the self-inflicted emotional torture gene, viewpoints and a balanced analysis. your distinct place in society. Therefore, and it’s acting up. While you don’t have Mostly it involves owning what is yours, do what you must, do what you want, Read Eric Francis daily at to blame anyone, it might help to notice and letting go of what is not yours. www. PlanetWaves.net where this is coming from. To you it may seem as natural as holding a spoon, and Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) it may indeed have been passed along When people are afraid to look within Next Edition to you from the person who also taught themselves, usually this is associated you how to eat. You seem to be burning with the darkness they expect to be of The Loop up so much energy that you could make there. Sometimes it seems like the whole yourself unwell. I suggest you commit to world is in reaction to this one perceived Comes out Learn Yoga expressing every drop of your energy in fear -- that the inner world is a kind of a positive and creative way. Don’t ask nightmare. But what if the opposite is how, just do it. true? If you feel any aversion to looking Thursday, inward, consider that what you’re afraid Cancer (June 21-July 22) to see is the light that’s within you. It September 11 If you’ve been experiencing some may be that the veil of self-blame is just Deadline for the next kind of emotional or sexual blockage, that, a scrim that blocks your inner view, you may be feeling a drive to work onto which all kinds of scary imagery is edition of The Loop is it out and open up. If you have not projected. You may find that obstacle identified the theme as sexual, it’s worth especially frustrating over the next few Friday, September 5 considering, because the astrology days, to the point where you’re ready to illustrates that vividly. It may, however, tear it down and see what’s actually on be something on a level deeper than the other side. You can trust one thing, you’re accustomed to going. That is the at least -- there is another side, and nature of healing -- it happens in layers. what’s there is different from the movie We are all, as in all of us, the inheritors of projected onto the screen. the sexual pain, mistrust and frustration of the ages. For many centuries, sex has Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) been used against the human race, as You know you want to let go. You everything from a weapon of war to a seem to be holding on as a matter of tool for social control. Society’s current will, but deeper down you know that Caroline Sias, LMP will be teaching insistence that sex be a commodity is not what you need to do is let go of all the Yoga and meditation on Saturday much of an improvement; it’s the same resistance in your body. This is not mornings at 8:00 am starting September old drama. Know that you’re unraveling about letting go of your commitments, [email protected] 3rd. Please call 206-914-7365 to register. The Vashon Loop, p. 8 August 28 ‘14 Positively Speaking Painter-Filmmakers focus road trip Three Points By Deborah H. Anderson Above Einstein documentary on seeing Inch by inch, piece by piece, I unpacked. art in the everyday That which had been boxed and put in storage in the Spring of 2013 was now, in the summer of 2014 being carefully placed work, which seemed a slow and stupid thing in just the right places. It had been, to quote to ask, especially when I usually didn’t know Eugene Peterson, a huge long obedience in how I got it, I just got it, school would have a single direction. been a dismal experience if not for drama I remembered seeing my hand going club, Acapella choir, and a hefty social life. up above my head and heard my words, Thinking of myself as smart was not on “Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!” the list. Only when I went to England my as I felt myself descending into the wood senior year and sat three A-Levels did I take pile outside the West Seattle grocery store, an interest in education. I was enthralled. slamming spine first into the jagged edges. Followed by four years at a women’s college October 2013. Unable to pick up my right where men were just dessert after a long leg upon righting myself, I was barely able week in class when I could raise my hand to assess my injuries for the fact that running as much as I liked, the real world was a slam after children as a family care specialist was in the face after graduation. no longer going to be my ‘save’. I lay in bed A Masters degree achieved in a for a week, the signal gone between my right traditionally female area, Seminary, the leg and my brain first in despair, then in worst , came next. My vivacious spirit surrender, to hear the Spirit whisper what I and new found self respect was squashed was to do to earn a living. by the professor who, in response to my Detractors and people with a lot of questions and comments said, “Ah, but scams and wrongdoing, people who had what does a woman want besides the love yet to learn how much God loved them and of a good man”. Yea...really. Then there was how the truth would set them free had done the professor of Systematics I who when I their very best to discredit me from earning asked if we could discuss Einstein’s theory a living. Now, it seemed they may have of relativity and new discoveries about time Vashon Film Society presents a art sites, from Spiral Jetty in the Great won. Using my early childhood teaching on the impact of theology and preaching screening of “SEE: An Art Road Trip” Salt Lake to Mount Rushmore, as well responded, “Yea, if you think anyone is certificate had been the way to do an end on Friday, September 5 at 9:30 pm as historic art studios and art world interested in anything YOU have to say” run around them and keep my chin above at the Vashon Theatre. The film is a luminaries like Andrew Wyeth and his the water line and do what I could to send Indeed, two weeks before the final another documentary joy ride traveling through famous model Helga. my children in a different direction than student shouted loudly, “Would you tell the American landscape with two Bartlett and Eby were intent on poverty. her to be quiet! I didn’t pay my tuition so painters as tour guides. conveying their philosophy that “art To my surprise and delight, two of my I could hear what she had to say.” I slunk Bo Bartlett, an internationally is everywhere, you just have to open most faithful client families continued with out of the class feeling like an entire truck me undeterred. “You are a force for good of of wet cement was poured on me. I never recognized realist oil painter, collaborates your eyes to see it.” When Bartlett in my children lives” one of them later told returned, forfeiting the class, and my tuition with his encaustic painter wife Betsy Eby unexpectedly begins to experience real- me. But it wouldn’t be enough. I filed for payment. That single act continues to haunt in capturing images of iconic American life vision problems during the road early Social Security. It wouldn’t be enough me today. I did return to class to fulfill two land art sites and visiting art world trip, the film’s story evolves from its either. God reminded me everything above class requirements for ordination, but I never luminaries and historic art studios. focus on beauty and art to an existential my waist was working just fine. I’m a writer recovered. Bartlett and Eby live part-time on Vashon, meditation on seeing art in the everyday. and a teacher and a motivational speaker Until this year. Faced with homelessness but the artistic duo is spending most of The September 5 screening is part and a musician/singer. There was going and had already started eating from the Food their year in Georgia now since the of Vashon Film Society’s First Friday to be plenty to work with if I continued to Bank, I was going to have to use every one of establishment of the Bo Bartlett Center Art Film series which coincides with work hard. those points in that number to regroup and at the College of the Arts at Columbus the monthly Gallery Cruise. The Finally, I realized I was going to have retool. Bravely and boldly, I determined, State University. documentary occurs at 9:30 pm at the to acknowledge that which I had discounted having, to their credit also acquired a “SEE: An Art Road Trip” was filmed Vashon Theatre, runs 75 minutes, and and underused my whole life for various, number of positive male mentors who did over seven years and documents the admission is $7/all ages. what seemed to be, good reasons. I was not understand my reluctance to put myself married pair’s travels to American land going to have to use my brain. out there, to fire it up and lay it out. I was Much has been made recently of going to have to accept and use every God encouraging young girls into Science, given brain cell I had. Technology, Engineering and Math. STEM. If somebody was threatened or annoyed Like title IX, years ago, which encouraged by it, well, so be it. They could just grow female athletes, these new invitations are up. What athlete withdraws from the meant to support girls and young women race because they are worried or want to with bright linear minds in using their be considerate of the flabby muscled or natural resources to positive effect. untoned or those who have not discovered When I was in Junior High, I was their own gifts and talents yet? Yes, I can told a number, by my mother after a actually read and enjoy four books at once. bunch of testing. I’ve lived in conflict with No I don’t have to hear the rest of your that number my whole life. Out of that sentence to know where you’re going with experience I ask a genuine question. Is the it –well...actually that’s just Philly. That world really ready for, does the world really doesn’t really have anything to do with my want, smart women to start taking the lead? brain cells, just how they were trained to There are physical differences coordinate with my mouth. between the brains of men and women. And yes, I also intend to recover Y Chromosomes’ brains don’t jump the ‘absolutely gorgeous’ this year too. Full hemisphere’s the way X choromomes’ brains on woman. Full on smart. As I use to tell do. Women can operate from their head and my highly intelligent oldest son, it’s just a heart at the same time. It means women can muscle. Everybody has their gift. be type B people sitting easy in the saddle To the young girls behind me, I say, while riding life, yet have type A thinking linear thinker or humanitarian, or athlete Make a date with Vashon! making very fast connections and coming or artist, whatever your strength, use it all!! www.VashonCalendar.org up with very solid solutions. Shine like a star!! Enjoy!!!. Tell the world. Let The number I was given meant nothing dealing with it be their problem, not yours. Vashon Library Events Local Weather to me until I was in my late thirties. 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Heat the the Healthy Way oil or grease in a wide skillet. With By Kathy Abascal eliminating sugars, chemicals, a heaping tablespoon put blobs Right now, the 5-2 and alcohol, poor quality animal of meat mixture in the hot pan. similar intermittent fasting diets products, and food triggers to Gently, though. You don’t want are popular. On the 5-2 diet you the greatest extent possible. grease to splatter and burn you. semi-fast two days out of the Instead we want to load up Flatten and shape to the size of week by limiting calories to 500- on antioxidants by eating dark your hamburger buns. 600 per day. You eat “normally” leafy greens, colorful vegetables, By Marj Watkins Cook on medium high until the other five days. I’ve been and other plant foods. As well, Huzzah for browned on underside. Flip. asked if intermittent fasting can we avoid prolonged reductions Reduce heat. Cook on, until there’s be combined with the TQI Diet in calories below what our body Hamburgers! no pink left inside any of the Kathy Abascal is a practicing in a healthy way. I think it can. burns. And more than anything, You could make a package meat patties. An instant read herbalist, teacher, and writer. Most cultures and religions we need to quit thinking that of ground lean beef or bison into thermometer should come up to After spending some of her early favor occasional fasts because we can eat poorly from time-to- meat loaf, but then you’d have to 170 degrees. This is to insure that years in Sweden, she went on to they offer a temporary time because we can “fix” any heat up the oven. and the weather all the bacteria the meat picked up obtain a degree in neurobiology damage done with a ritualistic is seldom cool enough for that yet. in being ground and worked with reprieve from overindulgence with minors in biochemistry and You could grill the meat at a picnic by butchers and cook get fried or for both the body and the fast or cleanse. A colonic and French from the University of as burger filling. But evenings grilled to death. mind. Unfortunately (at least a juice fast are not going to California, Berkeley. have cooled off quite a bit, and To assemble the burgers, tear in some respects), we live in eliminate toxins nor will they we’ve even had some showers and off the top three or four inches a very different world than necessarily mend a damaged get the antioxidants your body rainy nights as I write this for you of as many dark great or “red” our ancestors did. Humans cell. There are no quick fixes. needs – and to maintain your to read near the end of August. lettuce leaves as you have buns. today are walking containers Intermittent partial fasts intestinal flora – your limited Can you remember back from Cut the same number of beefsteak of many toxins (DDT, DDE, can have a different effect if calories should come strictly present global warming to when tomato slices. Assemble mustard, PCBs, PBDEs, and dioxins, combined with a TQI approach. from vegetables with a little we sometimes got frosty morning ketchup, mayo, a small dish of to name a few) that interfere As long as you get your 500 plant protein for breakfast. As in late August? sliced pickles, a platter of cooked with optimal health. Many are calories from vegetables (raw, well, your “normal” days need It is cool enough now to cook meat patties, another of big tomato found in our blood because we steamed, or roasted) and begin to continue to be filled with in my kitchen. The other night slices and lettuce leaves, and pick up new ones as fast (or your day with a little plant healthy foods. Do not use your for my grandson James and me, I another of halved whole-grain faster) than we get rid of old protein, such as a miso soup fast days as an excuse to eat made hamburgers like these, using hamburger buns. ones. Most toxins, however, with a little tofu or beans, you the “wrong” foods the rest of half a pound of the leanest ground, Let each diner assemble his are tucked away in our fats will be eating proportionately the week. grass-finished beef. You could use or her own hamburgers, choosing cells because we cannot excrete and will do fine. These foods I suspect that few are going ground bison, turkey, or chicken. the accessory ingredients of their them efficiently. These stored will provide your body with to want to do intermittent fasting desiring. toxins are periodically released, the antioxidants it needs to help for long, but done properly, a Beef or Bison Burgers If it’s a warm enough evening recirculate, and then are put deal with increased levels of little intermittent vegetable- Makes 3 or 4 to grill the burger patties outside, back in a fat cell. Whether we are circulating toxins. And, given only fasting may well jump ½ lb leanest ground beef or enjoy them in the fresh air. If slender or fat, we all have toxins that you are only cutting calories start your metabolism while bison meat the weather turns cold or rainy, both in our fat and blood cells. for at most a 24-hour period, keeping keep your flora happy. 1 teaspoon salt or to taste serve them indoors as an easy When we go on a complete you will not be depleting your It also might just reset your taste 1/3 teaspoon coarse-ground buffet supper. For desert may I fast, a stringent detox regimen, muscle tissue to keep you going. preferences so that healthy food black pepper suggest diced nectarines, peaches, or severely cut calories for a To be healthy, your fast on “normal” days tastes both 1 teaspoon finely minced or blueberries with spray-on while, we burn fat for energy. days should not include fruits, richer and more satisfying. As garlic or ½ teaspoon garlic granules whipped cream or raspberry or In the process, we momentarily juices, sugars, fats, oils, animal a result this approach, used ½ teaspoon crumbled sage strawberry ice cream decadently add to our circulating levels of products, alcohol, protein periodically, might be quite 1 teaspoon dried crumbled drizzled with melted bittersweet toxins, increasing our exposure powders, and/or chemicals. To interesting. oregano or 1 Tablespoon fresh chocolate? (If uninterested in to chemicals that disrupt health. oregano leaves gaining weight, you might skip the These toxins do much of their ¼ cup water or ¼ cup each dessert except for the fruit.) water and burgundy wine damage by generating free radicals. On a complete fast, you increase circulating toxins but do not have the antioxidants needed to prevent free radical damage because you are not eating food. As well, if you cut calories for longer than 24 hours, you start to use muscle tissue as fuel. 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Next Loop comes out September 11 www.vashoncalendar.com August 28 ‘14 The Vashon Loop, p. 11 Allison Shirk on the patio The Total Experience Gospel Choir is coming to Vashon Island Community Church “The Total Experience Gospel Choir … is hailed as one of the Pacific Northwest’s finest soulful ensembles” and they have taken their heavenly voices across the nation and internationally. We are again excited to be hosting this annual fund raising event for The Bailey- Boushay House, a nationally recognized facility offering inpatient and outpatient programs for people living with HIV/ AIDS. Their mission is to provide September 13 for refreshments, the exceptional care to people with HIV performance starts at 7pm disease, promoting their health, well- Vashon Island Community Church being and functional independence. The 9318 SW Cemetery RD show is being produced by Shade for the Children, “Making a difference in an indifferent world.” Doors open at 6 pm, Saturday Live Music Thursdays The Hardware Store Restaurant decided to start having a regular live music night back in March of this year and it has turned out to be a lot of fun and a great venue to hear some really talented people perform. The music takes place from 7:30- 9:30pm most every Thursday night. This week, we bring you local Join Allison Shirk on the patio at the Corpus Christi Texas, Allison has a musicians Rebekah Kuzma and Andy Vashon Island Golf & Swim Club for live quality that draws you in. She’s a sweetly James. original music and heart-felt cover songs. southern artist with an edge. Smart, Coming up later this month: Friday, Sept. 5th 5:30pm beautiful and talented, she is a breath Thursday, Sept 11th: Annalise Allison Shirk is an all-original of fresh air. Emerick (all the way from Nashville!) country-rock singer songwriter. Her Allison is currently fundraising to Thursday, Sept 25th: March To May music tells stories of a small town girl record her debut album, Break My Heart, Drop on by, enjoy some delicious with an honest quality that shines with a Kickstarter Campaign ending on food and a tasty beverage or two...and through her voice and guitar. Born in Sunday, August 18th. listen to some beautiful music! Brought to you by Vashon Events and The Hardware Store. Daryl Redeker

Saturday, September 6th, 7-9pm, Snapdragon is pleased to bring you live music in the courtyard on Saturday nights. Stop on by for some wonderful music, delicious food and tasty beverages! On Saturday, September 6th, we bring you Daryl Redeker. Daryl Redeker is an Island musician of exceptional talent who has been writing and recording since the early 1970’s. He has released eight albums, which received extensive airplay in the Northwest and has opened for such well-known acts as Jose Find us on Skype Feliciano, Phoebe Snow, Kenny Rankin and John Denver. In recent years, Daryl Compost the Loop Vashon Loop has turned his attention to teaching guitar. Daryl’s love of music and his ability to The Loop’s soy-based ink interpret a wide variety of musical styles makes him a dynamic and effective teacher. is good for composting. 206-925-3837 The Vashon Loop, p. 12 August 28 ‘14 Starts Sept 5 Boyhood

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Coming September 1st – 30th The life of a young man, Nutrena Safe Choice Senior Feed Mason, from age 5 to age 18. Buy 4 bags, get 1 bag FREE! NatureWise Feather Fixer For optimal feather growth & mite prevention! Beginning in late July, you will find $2.00 off stickers Starts Sept 5 on every bag of Nutrena Feather Fixer you purchase. Nutrena Feather Fixer can help your flock rebound from molt faster and easier and there is natural mite prevention in every bag!

Nutrena’s Flock Minder is an email-based program where poultry owners sign up and list the types and ages of the birds in their flock. After registering, you will receive timely tips on care, feeding, and management that coin- cides with the age of your particular flock. Get the right poultry advice, at the right time for your flock at www.flockminder.com Guardians of the Galaxy Come to VI Horse Supply for all your continues until Sept 1st horse, dog, poultry and farm needs! We have feed and supplies for all of the Shakespeare coming, Sept 20th critters who live at your place, not just horses! Sunday - Thursday “Two Gentlemen From Verona” Bistro & Sushi service Live Entertainment August 30, 8:30pm 17710 112th Ave. SW & Bank Road 11:30am to 9pm Hours: 9:00 – 6:00 pm Daily Lounge is Open The Island Jazz Quintet Vashon Theatre 10:00 – 5:00 pm Sunday 11:30am to midnight 17723 Vashon Hwy CLOSED WEDNESDAYS September 5, 8:30pm 206-463-9792 Friday & Saturday Danny Newcomb & Carrie Akre 206-463-3232 www.vihorsessupply.com Bistro & Sushi service Like us on Facebook! 11:30am to 10pm (at Cedar Valley Stables & VI Horse supply, Inc.) Lounge is Open September 12, 8:30pm Call for Times 11:30am to 2am Fendershine 17618 Vashon Hwy SW For show times and info check Find the Loop on-line at 206.463.5959 September 19, 8:30pm www.vashontheatre.com www.vashonloop.com www.redbicyclebistro.com High and Lonesome

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