Events
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Start: 11:00 am
Presented by the WHITMAN COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. Janna Cawrse Esarey and her husband's 17,000-mile, two-year honeymoon aboard a 35-foot sailboat is the subject of her book, The Motion of the Ocean: One Small Boat, Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife (Simon and Schuster). Both she and her husband are Whitman alums, and this special reading/reception is both sponsored by the college, and open to the public. "Love at sea was the idea when Esarey and her newly minted husband decided to honeymoon in a beat-up old sailboat on a trip across the Pacific. Eight hundred and thirteen hilarious, treacherous, and yes, romantic days later, she comes to some serious conclusions. Let's just say you'll be wildly entertained and glad to be on solid ground." - Publishers Weekly. Janna Cawrse Esarey was a 2008 Jack Straw Writers Fellow and writes the 'Happily Even After' relationship blog at blog.seattlpi.com.
Start: 6:45 pm
EXPOSED ON THE CLIFFS OF THE HEART: A Benefit for the IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER. An evening devoted to discussion, inquiry, and reading relative to our responsibilities and relationship to the earth is in store. First, Dr. Terry McGonigal, dean of Spiritual Life at Whitworth University will talk of biblical calls for earth stewardship, and Dr. Mary Ruckelshaus, ecologist and lead of the Marine Natural Capital Project, will talk about developments with Puget Sound and environmental quality. Then David James Duncan, esteemed writer (The River Why, The Brothers K, My Story As Told By Water, God Laughs and Plays) and salmon activist, over from Montana; and Sherman Alexie, with books of poems (Face) and stories War Dances (Grove), just out, will read work that responds in kind. Liveliness should abound. Tickets ($20 in advance) are available at www.ignatiancenter.org, where there is also more information on the Ignatian Spirituality Center. Phone for more information is (206) 329-4824. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca).
Start: 7:00 pm
Israeli American journalist Joel Schalit, whose first visit to Elliott Bay was with his acclaimed book, Jerusalem Calling, returns to speak this evening about Israel vs. Utopia (Akashic Books), in which he uses personal observation, political analysis and cultural commentary to talk about the Israel that Schalit says is the image held by Americans and Europeans, and he Israel he knows. "Behind Schalit's wit and humor lies a profound and exhilarating analysis of Israeli politics ... A must read for anyone who believes that peace is still an option in the Middle East." - Julien Pain. "Joel Schalit's genuine, urgent concern knocks down doors." - Salon.
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