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"You're forcing a natural agent — the wind — to do your bidding,"

"PASA taught me the value of finishing school"

“Shakespeare is not meant for the eye, it’s meant for the ear.”

“I think we all ought to help each other, that’s what we’re here to do. To not do that is to miss what it means to be human.”

"Just one more element of the tremendous amount of garbage that washes up on the shores”

"My favorite thing to express is the enjoyment of it. My biggest compliment is getting people interested. When you find people you connect with, magic happens."

“Just a little bit adds up to a lot of change,”

Gary Manos’ palette is steel. His knife is a plasma cutter. He details with an angle grinder and paints with a MAP torch.

“On snowshoes you get to interact directly with an environment that you just don’t see in your day-to-day life.”

“It’s the reason why 15 years after my initiation into this activity, I am still in this activity. I know what it does for the individual because I know what it did for me.”

John Bringetto isn’t letting a lack of instruments get in the way of his students’ music education. If he has to, he’ll get them instruments for free.

Afrikaans, Balinese, Chamorro, Creole, Dinka, Fula, Grebo, Hmong, Ilokano, Japanese, Khmer, Kosraean, Mandinka, Nepali, Romanian, Sotho, Tamil, Wolof. If they sound strangely familiar, they should. They’re just a handful of the 140 languages spoken in the Kent School District.

“Sequim isn’t a good place for a young, intelligent, single person. Why would any self-sufficient graduating high school student stay in Sequim?”

“Teaching is a unique profession where you’re expected to be a veteran on your first day,”