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Janet Thomas: In Memory of Real Honor

My last opinion piece, written on the first day of this New Year, had an equilibrium about it all that I can no longer muster. Witnessing the impeachment hearings and the complicity of so many with…

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What the Hell Happened to My Equilibrium?

My writing knows more than I do. That’s what I’ve learned and that’s what I try to share with others. Sit down, get out of the way, and let the writing take over. It will teach…

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Janet Thomas: No Human Is An Island

This piece has wrestled with me for nearly two months. Thanks to the “Kneel In” for George Floyd at the Friday Harbor Courthouse last Monday evening and last Friday’s Black Lives Matter march through town, I…

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Janet Thomas: To Buy? Or To Be? Therein Lies the Question.

No island is an island. Especially when there is a ferry service that gets us here. And in the summer, it gets everyone else here, too. Even on its winter schedule. These pandemic times turn everything…

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Janet Thomas: Days of War and Remembering

Yesterday, on an afternoon stroll at the beach, I had an encounter with a man. He was inspecting logs; I was spacing out after too much time at the computer. We grinned at each other and…

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Janet Thomas: Love, Loss, and Longing--The Signs of These Times

Now what? These two words have taken over my daily life. They hover inside and out waiting for a clear and honest answer. Neither of which I feel capable of. The current complexity of personal and…

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Janet Thomas: The Week That Is

It is the week of MLK Jr. Day, of remembering his courage, his faith, his intelligence, his compassion, and the heartbreak of “being there when” he was assassinated. And now, there is “being here now.” The…

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Janet Thomas: Where Do All the Flowers Come From?

A couple of weeks ago, I picked a bunch of daffodils that were wildly blooming across a friend’s property on the west side of the island. It was gray and raining and their majestic beauty in…

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Janet Thomas: Orca Action Month (Without End)

It was right around this time of year, thirty years ago, when I encountered my first pod of orca whales. My partner and I were renting a house on the westside, and I had taken him…

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Influential Islander: Joseph Bettis on Industrial Tourism

Joseph Bettis is the next subject in Janet Thomas' ongoing Influential Islander series. The 84-year-old islander's background as a University Professor, Captain, author, and more, provides a perspective on the current state of island life. 1. …

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Janet Thomas: The Fall Of It All

There is nothing objective about these times. And there is nothing objective about this opinion piece. I am struggling with it all--the diminishing daylight, species extinction, and COVID isolation and its accompanying disconnection from friends and…

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Janet Thomas: ‘Tis The Season of Returning Light

These COVID times are challenging in too many ways to count. I do not hide my own distress about it all when I encounter a friend in the store, on the street, or online. In return,…

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Janet Thomas: The Little County That Could

This past week I received an out-of-the-blue email from a woman asking if I would consider being interviewed about the 1999 WTO (World Trade Organization) demonstration in Seattle. It was an event that drew together union…

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Janet Thomas: The Breath of Hope

Two days ago, I awoke to smoke in my neighborhood. It signaled the tragic loss of buildings and businesses in Friday Harbor including the historic buildings that were home to beloved Herb’s Tavern and Windermere Real…

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