Magazine Posts

Come share your love of reading with like-minded individuals. This month the group will be discussing "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman. 

Bring your covered drink, a snack and join the discussion in the library's Center for Lifelong Learning!

When: Fridays from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm!
Address: 1000 SE Regatta Dr, Oak Harbor, WA  - Phone: 360-722-7459

Curious about the mysteries of Orpheus? The Cornet Bay Retreat Center is holding a weekend to re-live this story!

Orpheus was the first musician, the first poet and the first story-teller – the first composer of myth, for mythos is story; and all nature crowded round to hear him.

At this exciting retreat, you will encounter many divine beings, mythical beasts, face challenges and choices, and maybe even get a glimpse into the mystery of your very own being. 

There will be live actors, displays, props, activities and much, MUCH more to see and do in this live-interactive weekend! 

When: Friday, September 27th at 3:00 pm through Sunday, September 29th, 2019 at 12:00 pm.

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!

Address: 400 Cornet Bay Rd, Oak Harbor, WA 98277 

Phone: 360-679-2482

Mothers or expectant mothers - THIS IS FOR YOU! 

Come learn all there is to know about breastfeeding! Learn different ways to hold your baby and different solutions to boost supply and ways to properly address a poor latch. This is a free event led by an IBCLC. Tell your friends! 

When: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 at 5:30 pm. 

Address: 1000 SE Regatta Dr, Oak Harbor, Washington 98277

Phone: 360-675-5115

Join your host, Larry Korn, for a week long natural farming immersion at Ananda Farm on Camano Island. Vegetarian meals and camping space is provided for the week. Attune to the spirit of Masanobu Fukuoka and natural living as an integrated approach to life and agriculture. Participate in classes, discussion, philosophy, and the hands-on practice of natural farming. The farm currently has around 10 resident-stewards at the farm, alpacas, goats, dogs, cats, chickens, and a few acres of garden-orchards filled with thousands of plants, crawlers, and fliers. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet new friends and learn a TON! Don't miss out on the fun! Cost is $375 – $675 (sliding scale).

RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!

When: Saturday, August 31st (2:00-5:00 pm arrival), through Saturday, September 7th, 2019 at 1:00 pm.
Address: 732 Haven Pl, Camano Island - Phone: 360-387-0575

 Show your veterans ID to your cashier and receive 15% off your entire purchase!
Thank you for your service!

Address: 1335 State Highway 532, Camano Island, WA - Phone: 360-629-6142
Email: 2ndchancethriftshop.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; outline: none !important; color: rgb(56, 88, 152); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">facebook@2ndchancethriftshop.org

Seattle Central Library is big. Because there are so many stories. Get it? Library joke. 4/25/19.

“We move from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. And separating one from the other… knowing the limitations and the danger of exercising one without the others, while respecting each category of intelligence, is generally what serious education is about.”  Read more 

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) American writer, born in Lorain, Ohio,  She received the the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993

"Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours."...................Click  to read  Maria Popova's Brain Pickings article about  Kenyon’s "A Hundred White Daffodils: Essays, Interviews, The Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem"

A labor of love 8 years in the making, featuring contributions by Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Oliver, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth Gilbert, Shonda Rhimes, Richard Branson, Marina Abramović, Judy Blume, and other remarkable humans living inspired and inspiring lives...........Read more

“I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way things that I had no words for,” Georgia O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887–March 6, 1986) wrote in the foreword to a catalog for an exhibition of her work two decades before she became the first female artist honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art ........Read more

“To name something truly is to lay bare what may be brutal or corrupt — or important or possible — and key to the work of changing the world is changing the story.” ...... Click to read more

In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him for work that “with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”.........................Click to read more