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Turning

Posted by Ken Campbell September 10, 2012 0 Comment 1220 views

It’s a gray, slightly damp and thick-sky morning, the kind of a morning that could be any day between September and April. It’s cold, sort of, with a chilly wind out of the southwest and a chop on the water. Summer is definitely past. I just got back to town last night after spending the […]

Insomnia

Posted by Ken Campbell September 8, 2012 0 Comment 1340 views

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. – Henry Ward Beecher There’s a lot of what Beecher had to […]

It’s about the money

Posted by Ken Campbell September 7, 2012 0 Comment 1123 views

In a move that comes as something of a surprise, the Japanese government has announced that it is planning to bear some of the costs for cleanup efforts on the west coast of the US and Canada. I’ve poked around a little and heard the figure of $1,000,000 dollars being bandied about. I’m not sure […]

Gone to a land down under

Posted by Ken Campbell September 6, 2012 0 Comment 1028 views

No, I’m not going to Australia. Not that far “down under.” I’m just going to Oregon, the land down under Washington, for the weekend. I’m doing a weekend trip along the Oregon coast with a group of women who book this same weekend every year. We’re staying in Cannon Beach and I’m figuring we’ll do […]

All the news that fits

Posted by Ken Campbell September 5, 2012 1 Comment 1427 views

During the course of the Ikkatsu Expedition this summer, especially after we found remnants of a house on a remote Olympic beach, the trip and our survey activities were the subject of a spate of media attention. We did scores of interviews with print and broadcast outlets and got used to seeing our names on […]

Help!

Posted by Ken Campbell September 3, 2012 1 Comment 1105 views

It seems that Academy Award winner Russell Crowe needed a little help getting back to the dock the other night. He and a friend had gone for a paddle off Long Island and “… ran out of day,” as the actor put it. They hailed a passing Coast Guard boat and got a lift back […]

Turning words into music

Posted by Ken Campbell September 2, 2012 2 Comments 1040 views

All this week, for an hour or so each evening, I’ve been watching Planet Earth, the ground-breaking BBC documentary series that came out a few years back and completely reset the bar for documentaries of any persuasion. The lush visuals and the filming techniques are utterly beyond compare and I am, within seconds of turning […]

To the market

Posted by Ken Campbell September 1, 2012 0 Comment 1160 views

It’s 6:00am and I’m going to be heading out the door soon to go set up a booth at the Proctor Farmer’s Market in Tacoma. It’s a Surfrider event, and I’m thinking we’ll be trying to get the word out about plastics pollution, ban-the-bag initiatives and generally spreading some aloha. “Showing the flag,” is what […]

Blue

Posted by Ken Campbell August 31, 2012 0 Comment 1279 views

I’m not sure that we’ll be able to see it around here, but there’s a blue moon rising tonight. After a month of truly excellent weather and mostly clear skies, the clouds are back and the sky looks like clam chowder. I’m hoping it’s a passing thing, that we’ll get an Indian summer in September […]

Coming soon…

Posted by Ken Campbell August 30, 2012 3 Comments 1483 views

The premiere of the film Ikkatsu: The Roadless Coast, has been set for November 14th at 7:00pm at the Grand Theatre in Tacoma. Tickets are $7.50 in advance, $9.00 at the door. This exciting documentary details the Ikkatsu Expedition that traveled the Olympic coast this summer, surveying remote beaches and documenting incoming debris from the […]