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THOUGHTS ABOUT TAKING PRIDE IN OUR DIFFERENCES

THOUGHTS ABOUT TAKING PRIDE IN OUR DIFFERENCES

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My wife Lita and I have a close friend Anna Lynn, who is an ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church presently with a Federal Way, Washington parish, Church of the Good Shepherd. On the 7th Sunday of Easter this year, she gave the Sunday sermon, which she titled “Take Pride in Our Differences.” See YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/0df3p0RiYqg?si=PUZl-x_brMB-wteR What she shared is significant and important. I’ve copied her sermon, with her permission, and share it with you now.  It’s an accounting with…

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A BRIEF FISHING HISTORY OF GIG HARBOR

A BRIEF FISHING HISTORY OF GIG HARBOR

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I’ve written about Gig Harbor and salmon purse seining several times while describing my experiences when  in high school and college working on purse seine boats in Alaska and here in the San Juan islands. See  https://paulluverajournalonline.com/weblog/2023/06/purse-seine-fishing-in-the-northwest. also: https://paulluverajournalonline.com/weblog/2021/10/the-gift-of-working-on-salmon-purse-seine-boats. It’s unique that I ended up living in Gig Harbor, where Lita and I have made our home for the last twenty-five years. That’s because I was born and raised in a very similar fishing & lumbering town of  Anacortes and fished…

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