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Breathing space

Posted by Ken Campbell March 26, 2013 1 Comment 1989 views

It’s the spring of the year here in western Washington. I doesn’t seem like that long ago that it was snowing on the passes and raining bullets here along the shores of the Salish Sea… I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of the foul weather yet, but the future is looking a bit more […]

What odds?

Posted by Ken Campbell March 10, 2013 6 Comments 2191 views

Tomorrow will be the 2nd anniversary of the tsunami that devastated northern Japan. Two years gone since then… it hardly seems possible. A couple weeks ago, this blog had its five-year anniversary. What started out as a writer’s exercise book turned into a full-blown daily newsletter, about a variety of items related to nature and […]

Other pursuits

Posted by Ken Campbell February 27, 2013 0 Comment 1502 views

I have been pretty one-dimensional lately… the Ikkatsu Project has dominated most of my efforts and I haven’t been quite the outdoor renaissance man that I would normally expect myself to be. That’s just the way it is, I suppose. The work I’m doing with marine debris is important to me (and just downright important), […]

The ways of change

Posted by Ken Campbell February 25, 2013 1 Comment 1811 views

I’m not sure I’m a kayaker any more. I don’t know when it happened, but I can’t help but think that something has changed. Don’t get me wrong… I still paddle. I still take my boat out into the spray and I still love the feel of a hurricane headwind or a quiet, backwater morning. […]

Catching up

Posted by Ken Campbell February 22, 2013 0 Comment 1549 views

The Tacoma showing of The Roadless Coast went off well the other night at the Grand Cinema… sold out to the doors with a lot of very cool people. With that showing done and the next one still over a week away, I’ve got a little time to decompress and get some other things done. […]

Good morning!

Posted by Ken Campbell February 18, 2013 0 Comment 1542 views

This piece ran in the Tacoma News Tribune yesterday. Ticket sales for the Seattle showing tomorrow night are taking off… get ’em while the gettin’ is good. We still have a few more showings of The Roadless Coast, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now. After the two this […]

Adrift in the city of books

Posted by Ken Campbell February 17, 2013 0 Comment 1453 views

We made a pilgrimage to Powell’s Books in Portland today. If you’ve never been, it’s pretty amazing. Picture the biggest book store you’ve ever been in, and then imagine it as a single room in a larger store, an uberstore, if you will, with more books than Carter has little pills. Truly awesome. I don’t […]

Water walking

Posted by Ken Campbell February 14, 2013 0 Comment 1433 views

It isn’t often that I see anyone else on the water when I paddle the Foss on a winter morning. Once in a while there’ll be a tug coming in or going out, maybe a fishing boat (on the weekend mornings), but another SUP? Never. Actually, I was looking for him. I’ve seen on Corey […]

Head like a wheel

Posted by Ken Campbell February 13, 2013 2 Comments 1753 views

The past week has been a busy one and my head has been spinning. I haven’t had the time to post in this space as much as I normally do. No excuses really; just reasons. School started last week, my new classes at SAMi, so I have new students to teach about how the system […]

Out there

Posted by Ken Campbell February 5, 2013 0 Comment 1484 views

The crew from OAR Northwest – (the picture above was taken in Tacoma a couple years back) – are well into their Atlantic crossing now, from Dakar, Senegal to Miami, Florida. It’s a voyage of superlatives, and will be the first row from Africa to North America once it’s completed. This is a group of rowers […]