JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

From Joi Ito today I learned that schoolkids in Japan will be tagged with RFID: The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids’ movements. The chips will be put onto kids’ schoolbags, name tags or clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school. Needless to say, […]

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This story reads like a movie script: GOLD RIVER, B.C. — Seventeen men and women of the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nation in dugout canoes patted a rambunctiously friendly young killer whale and led him out to sea yesterday, trying to thwart the capture of the orca they consider a reincarnation of a deceased chief. By midafternoon, […]

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When I received the email Sunday afternoon I selfishly couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t handle it. One more death in a week when I was surrounded in sorrow. One friend lost a close friend, one friend lost a father, two public figures from my childhood passed away. In the midst of this I am wrestling […]

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Tuesday’s Seattle Times described how Once-dying Chinook language finds future in voices of children, including the teaching program Tony Johnson developed. I especially liked this proof that the language education program is working Now the Grand Ronde program is so successful, he said, children here use Chinuk-wawa to keep secrets from adults. “When they don’t […]

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Quotes from today’s Seattle Times… Mourning a slain father At least 500 people packed Marlatt’s Funeral Home in Kent yesterday to remember Nirmal Singh Thind, a 44-year-old motel owner who was shot to death last week after protecting his 10-year-old son from robbers. Mourners filled the chapel and lobby while scores more gathered in the […]

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