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David Guterson, the literary heavyweight behind the 1994 novel "Snow Falling on Cedars" sits down with fellow Pacific Northwest author Jess Walter to discuss his newest book, "Evelyn in Transit" in a gathering of the Northwest Passages Book Club at the Coughlin Theater at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026.

Whether you know him from his award-winning and bestselling novel set in Puget Sound, Snow Falling on Cedars, or his columns in Pacific Northwest publications, Bainbridge writer David Guterson may be one of our region's most well-known writers. He's written a new novel, Evelyn in Transit, which explores what it means to live a righteous life, maybe even in spite of our imperfections. Guterson's novel introduces Evelyn Bednarz, who is radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others. Yet Evelyn has always been a misfit in society. She's easily bored, unsuited to life at school, asks odd questions about faith and time, and sees through conventions others take for granted. Seeking to be true to herself, she hitchhikes across the American West, taking odd jobs. Meanwhile, in distant Tibet, another life unfolds: the life of a boy named Tsering, raised as a Buddhist monk in the mountains of Tibet, who eventually becomes a high lama. And yet, Evelyn and Tsering are linked, which Evelyn discovers when a trio of Buddhist lamas show up at her door to announce that her five-year-old son, Cliff, is the seventh reincarnation of the illustrious Norbu Rinpoche, recently deceased. The lamas' visit sets off a family crisis and a media firestorm over Cliff's future. As he's done in his other writing, Guterson links the Pacific Northwest with universal human truths. Evelyn in Transit asks us what it might mean to "live the right way," and to closely examine humanity's strivings for transcendence. David Guterson is the author of several novels: the national best seller Snow Falling on Cedars; East of the Mountains; Our Lady of the Forest, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; The Other; and Ed King. He is also the author of two story collections, two books of poetry, a memoir, and the work of nonfiction Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Washington state. Karen Maeda Allman is a bookseller alum, having worked for over 30 years at Independent Bookstores (including as author events co-coordinator for the Elliott Bay Book Company). She has served on many jury and awards panels, including for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the DSC Prize and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. She's currently at Wales Literary Agency and also serves on the Board of Seattle Arts and Lectures.   Buy the Book Evelyn in Transit: A Novel Elliott Bay Book Company

In advance of his appearance in Helena at MT Book Co. on Monday, February 2, 2026, novelist David Guterson, author of ‘Snow Falling on Cedars' (Vintage Books), discusses his latest book, ‘Evelyn in Transit' (W. W. Norton & Company).

In advance of his appearance in Helena at MT Book Co. on Monday, February 2, 2026, novelist David Guterson, author of ‘Snow Falling on Cedars' (Vintage Books), discusses his latest book, ‘Evelyn in Transit' (W. W. Norton & Company).

pWotD Episode 3139: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 273,965 views on Friday, 5 December 2025 our article of the day is Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Japanese: 田川 洋行, romanized: Tagawa Hiroyuki; September 27, 1950 – December 4, 2025) was a Japanese-born American actor and film producer who was best known for his role as the evil shapeshifter sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works of the Mortal Kombat franchise: he first played the character in the 1995 film adaptation, and reprised it in 2013 for the television series Mortal Kombat: Legacy and in 2019 for the video game Mortal Kombat 11.Often cast as villains, he became known for his film roles in: The Last Emperor (1987), the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), American Me (1992), Rising Sun (1993), Mortal Kombat (1995), The Phantom (1996), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Planet of the Apes (also 2001), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Tekken (2009), 47 Ronin (2013), Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge (2014), and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). He starred as Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi on the Amazon Prime television series The Man in the High Castle (2015–2018), and Hiroki Watanabe on the Netflix series Lost in Space (2018–2021).This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 03:33 UTC on Saturday, 6 December 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Amy.

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It's shaping up to be a frightful forecast for Halloween across much of Minnesota as rain changes over to snow — and that snow could be heavy at times.As of early Thursday afternoon, snow was falling across most of the Twin Cities metro area and in the St. Cloud area. The transition occurred earlier in the day to the south and west.It reminds us of the infamous Halloween blizzard of 1991. A record setting 36.9 inches in Duluth, 28.4 inches in the Twin Cities. For more on what to expect with Thursday's storm is MPR meteorologist Mandy Thalhuber.

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Excerpts from "A Reader's Manifesto", published by Arjun Panickssery on September 7, 2024 on LessWrong. "A Reader's Manifesto" is a July 2001 Atlantic piece by B.R. Myers that I've returned to many times. He complains about the inaccessible pretension of the highbrow literary fiction of his day. The article is mostly a long list of critiques of various quotes/passages from well-reviewed books by famous authors. It's hard to accuse him of cherry-picking since he only targets passages that reviewers singled out as unusually good. Some of his complaints are dumb but the general idea is useful: authors try to be "literary" by (1) avoiding a tightly-paced plot that could evoke "genre fiction" and (2) trying to shoot for individual standout sentences that reviewers can praise, using a shotgun approach where many of the sentences are banal or just don't make sense. Here are some excerpts of his complaints. Bolding is always mine. The "Writerly" Style He complains that critics now dismiss too much good literature as "genre" fiction. More than half a century ago popular storytellers like Christopher Isherwood and Somerset Maugham were ranked among the finest novelists of their time, and were considered no less literary, in their own way, than Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. Today any accessible, fast-moving story written in unaffected prose is deemed to be "genre fiction" - at best an excellent "read" or a "page turner," but never literature with a capital L. An author with a track record of blockbusters may find the publication of a new work treated like a pop-culture event, but most "genre" novels are lucky to get an inch in the back pages of The New York Times Book Review. The dualism of literary versus genre has all but routed the old trinity of highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow, which was always invoked tongue-in-cheek anyway. Writers who would once have been called middlebrow are now assigned, depending solely on their degree of verbal affectation, to either the literary or the genre camp. David Guterson is thus granted Serious Writer status for having buried a murder mystery under sonorous tautologies (Snow Falling on Cedars, 1994), while Stephen King, whose Bag of Bones (1998) is a more intellectual but less pretentious novel, is still considered to be just a very talented genre storyteller. Further, he complains that fiction is regarded as "literary" the more slow-paced, self-conscious, obscure, and "writerly" its style. The "literary" writer need not be an intellectual one. Jeering at status-conscious consumers, bandying about words like "ontological" and "nominalism," chanting Red River hokum as if it were from a lost book of the Old Testament: this is what passes for profundity in novels these days. Even the most obvious triteness is acceptable, provided it comes with a postmodern wink. What is not tolerated is a strong element of action - unless, of course, the idiom is obtrusive enough to keep suspense to a minimum. Conversely, a natural prose style can be pardoned if a novel's pace is slow enough, as was the case with Ha Jin's aptly titled Waiting, which won the National Book Award (1999) and the PEN/Faulkner Award (2000). If the new dispensation were to revive good "Mandarin" writing - to use the term coined by the British critic Cyril Connolly for the prose of writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce - then I would be the last to complain. But what we are getting today is a remarkably crude form of affectation: a prose so repetitive, so elementary in its syntax, and so numbing in its overuse of wordplay that it often demands less concentration than the average "genre" novel. 4 Types of Bad Prose Then he has five sections complaining about 4 different types of prose he doesn't like (in addition to the generic "literary" prose): "evocative" prose, "muscular"...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Excerpts from "A Reader's Manifesto", published by Arjun Panickssery on September 7, 2024 on LessWrong. "A Reader's Manifesto" is a July 2001 Atlantic piece by B.R. Myers that I've returned to many times. He complains about the inaccessible pretension of the highbrow literary fiction of his day. The article is mostly a long list of critiques of various quotes/passages from well-reviewed books by famous authors. It's hard to accuse him of cherry-picking since he only targets passages that reviewers singled out as unusually good. Some of his complaints are dumb but the general idea is useful: authors try to be "literary" by (1) avoiding a tightly-paced plot that could evoke "genre fiction" and (2) trying to shoot for individual standout sentences that reviewers can praise, using a shotgun approach where many of the sentences are banal or just don't make sense. Here are some excerpts of his complaints. Bolding is always mine. The "Writerly" Style He complains that critics now dismiss too much good literature as "genre" fiction. More than half a century ago popular storytellers like Christopher Isherwood and Somerset Maugham were ranked among the finest novelists of their time, and were considered no less literary, in their own way, than Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. Today any accessible, fast-moving story written in unaffected prose is deemed to be "genre fiction" - at best an excellent "read" or a "page turner," but never literature with a capital L. An author with a track record of blockbusters may find the publication of a new work treated like a pop-culture event, but most "genre" novels are lucky to get an inch in the back pages of The New York Times Book Review. The dualism of literary versus genre has all but routed the old trinity of highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow, which was always invoked tongue-in-cheek anyway. Writers who would once have been called middlebrow are now assigned, depending solely on their degree of verbal affectation, to either the literary or the genre camp. David Guterson is thus granted Serious Writer status for having buried a murder mystery under sonorous tautologies (Snow Falling on Cedars, 1994), while Stephen King, whose Bag of Bones (1998) is a more intellectual but less pretentious novel, is still considered to be just a very talented genre storyteller. Further, he complains that fiction is regarded as "literary" the more slow-paced, self-conscious, obscure, and "writerly" its style. The "literary" writer need not be an intellectual one. Jeering at status-conscious consumers, bandying about words like "ontological" and "nominalism," chanting Red River hokum as if it were from a lost book of the Old Testament: this is what passes for profundity in novels these days. Even the most obvious triteness is acceptable, provided it comes with a postmodern wink. What is not tolerated is a strong element of action - unless, of course, the idiom is obtrusive enough to keep suspense to a minimum. Conversely, a natural prose style can be pardoned if a novel's pace is slow enough, as was the case with Ha Jin's aptly titled Waiting, which won the National Book Award (1999) and the PEN/Faulkner Award (2000). If the new dispensation were to revive good "Mandarin" writing - to use the term coined by the British critic Cyril Connolly for the prose of writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce - then I would be the last to complain. But what we are getting today is a remarkably crude form of affectation: a prose so repetitive, so elementary in its syntax, and so numbing in its overuse of wordplay that it often demands less concentration than the average "genre" novel. 4 Types of Bad Prose Then he has five sections complaining about 4 different types of prose he doesn't like (in addition to the generic "literary" prose): "evocative" prose, "muscular"...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1175, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Original 31 Flavors 1: Sour item that precedes Crisp, Custard and Sherbet in 3 of Baskin-Robbins' original 31 flavors. Lemon. 2: Varieties of this flavor included French and Burnt Almond. Vanilla. 3: This traditional Christmas drink was available. Egg Nog. 4: Flavors included this type of "Stick" (but not this type of "Patty"). Peppermint. 5: Nuts to you! and marshmallows, too, with this alliterative original flavor. Rocky Road. Round 2. Category: Wintry Reading 1: In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens. mittens. 2: Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr!. Siberia. 3: The 2019 book "The Enchanted Forest" is a tie-in with this long-awaited animated sequel. Frozen 2. 4: Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition. hypothermia. 5: It's 1954 and tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these. Cedars. Round 3. Category: Ancient Science 1: The ancient Sumerian number system, based on 60, is still used today to measure this. time. 2: Around 400 B.C. Democritus proposed that all matter is composed of these tiny units. atoms. 3: Considered 1st universal genius, this student of Plato believed goats breathed through their ears. Aristotle. 4: Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl. a compass. 5: Delta city with automatic door openers, washing machines, and a world-famous library. Alexandria. Round 4. Category: London On Film 1: Guinness says this current resident of 10 Downing Street was 1st portrayed on film in "For Your Eyes Only". Margaret Thatcher. 2: R. Chandler's novel was set in L.A., but this '77 remake was "curiously and ineffectively set in London". The Big Sleep. 3: In "My Fair Lady", Eliza Doolittle peddled her posies here, in front of the opera house. Covent Garden. 4: The bird woman in "Mary Poppins" sells feed for birds in front of this church build by Wren. St. Paul's. 5: 1973 film in which George Segal trysts with Glenda Jackson in a Garrard St. flat. A Touch of Class. Round 5. Category: He Was Senator And President 1: Though he served Penn. in the Senate from 1834 to 1845, he supported pro-slavery Southern positions; he didn't get better as pres.. Buchanan. 2: His nickname "Tricky Dick" dates back to the 1950s California campaign that put him in the Senate. Nixon. 3: Though the Senate failed by one vote to de-president him, his later return to the body was met with flowers and applause. (Andrew) Johnson. 4: This Ohioan found the Senate "far more to my liking than" being pres. could be; scandal and death in office followed. Warren G. Harding. 5: This New Yorker and future president joined the Senate in 1821 and soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt. Martin Van Buren. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

In today's episode, I'm sharing a significant update about a tough decision I've made: to shut down Highlightish, the book note software I've been passionately working on. I'll discuss the reasons behind this decision, primarily focusing on my desire to dedicate more time and resources to enriching this podcast. Expect to hear about the exciting plans I have to bring you more compelling guests and discussions. Plus, I won't leave you without a book recommendation that has deeply moved me - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. Join me as I explain why this shift is not an end but a new beginning for our community.IMPORTANT LINKS:

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Don't you love it when a message practically writes itself? It's that moment when God suddenly downloads some brilliant piece of content into your brain, and you get to receive it, record it, and share it with the world… all for His glory. But life doesn't work that way every day. As content creators and business owners, we know work still needs to get done whether it's divinely inspired or not. As faith-based creators, how are we to handle the tension between inspiration and craft?Does it honor God to create content without waiting on His direction? How can we build a sustainable business if those moments of inspiration don't gel with our deadlines? And what are we really called to do as contentpreneurs? The answer might be much simpler than you think.Tune into this episode of The Inspired Business Podcast to discover what the Bible says about inspiration from God, creating messages of hope even when we don't “feel” like it, and how to treat your calling with respect for the One who called you… and the ones He called you to serve. Highlights:My clearest memory of God-inspired contentWhat inspiration means and doesn't meanGod equips us to do His will… even when it doesn't “feel” inspiredGod has also commanded us to be readyWhat it looks like when the Holy Spirit answers our prayers for wordsYou have everything it takes to create… plus this one key ingredientThe role of planning for the business-minded content creatorThree tips for making your creative work a craftWhy the results don't matter as much as we think they doResources mentioned in this episode:The Sound of Snow Falling… blog post from BeckyKopitzke.com, December 2012Colossians 3:232 Timothy 3:16-171 Peter 3:15Are you a digital marketing genius? Take our quiz to find out!Plus watch our FREE masterclass: How to Create and Sell Digital Products Without Feeling Stupid, Salesy, or Sacrilegious

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A pine forest stands evergreen with accents of snow upon the tree boughs. The landscape below is white from days of unrelenting snowfall. Snowflakes continue to fall, crackling onto trees and the ground while the pine trees sway gently in the breeze. Spotify listener? Lose the intros by becoming a subscriber!⁠⁠ https://anchor.fm/tmsoft/subscribe⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Learn more about the White Noise App⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Download the White Noise app for free!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Download this sound to White Noise for free!⁠

In the Pacific Northwest, many of us delight in Olympic National Park, a UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, located right in Seattle's backyard. Yet the famed park is just the center of a much larger ecosystem including rivers that encompass old-growth forests, coastal expanses, and alpine peaks, all rich with biodiversity. For tens of thousands of years, humans have thrived and strived alongside this area. To tell the story of this place, award-winning poet and nature writer Tim McNulty and contributors such as Fawn Sharpe, president of the National Congress of American Indians, David Guterson, author of bestselling novel Snow Falling on Cedars, Wendy Sampson, and Seattle Times environmental reporter Lynda V. Mapes, collaborated with Braided River in a project called Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain. Braided River, the same organization that created the award-winning book and multimedia exhibit We are Puget Sound, is bringing awareness to the Olympic Peninsula through art and stories––stories of development, conservation, restoration, and cultural heritage, while writers from the Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Makah Tribe, and Quinault Indian Nation share some of their own history and perspectives. The project, in partnership with The Mountaineers, Olympic Parks Associates, National Parks Conservation Foundation, and many more, is a diverse exploration of Olympic National Park and its surrounding peninsula. Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist, and nature writer and recipient of the Washington State Book Award and National Outdoor Book Award. David Guterson is a novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for his award-winning debut novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, which won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award. It has sold more than four million copies and was adapted as a major motion picture. He lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle with his wife Robin and five children. Wendy Sampson is a member of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (LEKT); she lives on the reservation with her family. She has been a Klallam language teacher for twenty years. Wendy has provided cultural outreach in the schools, taught after-school programs and community adult classes, and worked under various grant projects with the goals of creating tribal history and language lessons and developing tools for language learning. She is now a teacher for the Port Angeles School District offering courses in the Klallam language as well as history classes from a tribal perspective. Lynda V. Mapes is an award-winning journalist, author, and close observer of the natural world. She is the author of six books, including Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home; Witness Tree: Seasons of Change in a Century Old Oak; and Elwha: A River Reborn. Lynda lives in Seattle where she covers nature, the environment, and tribes as a staff reporter for The Seattle Times. Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain: Washington's Olympic Peninsula The Elliott Bay Book Company

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Thanks for tuning in to this Thursday edition of the Farmer Rapid Fire on RealAg Radio! Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Steve Terpstra of Atwood, Ont.; Ryan Barrett of Kensington, P.E.I.; Jocelyn Wasko of Eastend, Sask.; and, Kent Erickson of Irma, Alta. Thoughts on something we talked about on the show? Connect with host... Read More

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I recorded this on my recent three night snow camping trip near Moosehead Creek in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Shasta County, California. I made my campsite by digging a pit in the snow and building short walls around it, which I then covered with a nylon tarp. On the final night of my trip, graupel showers started falling, then transitioned to snow. This episode consists of two recordings I made in my campsite under the tarp that night, the first part is a heavy graupel shower that passed through, the second part is a snow shower with a little graupel mixed in for a bit, then ends with steady snowfall. Each part is about seventeen minutes long, and I faded them together for a seamless transition. You might be wondering, what is graupel? Graupel is formed when snowflakes pass through supercooled water droplets as they fall. The supercooled water droplets freeze on contact, and then accumulate on the snowflake as they fall and become very tiny snowballs. Graupel is sometimes referred to as soft hail, and it falls much faster than snow, which is why it makes so much noise when it hits the tarp. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/soundbynature/support

In this session, we are joined by award-winning, best-selling author, David Guterson to discuss his book, The Final Case.About the AuthorGuterson's writing has been celebrated for its atmospheric intensity, narrative drive, and probing exploration of fundamental human themes--love, death, meaning, and morality among them. His many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the White Award for Journalism, the Washington State Governor's Writers Award, the Swedish Academy Crime Writers' Award, the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Snow Falling on Cedars.About the BookThe Final Case is said to be the author's most compelling and heartfelt novel to date. The case involves the death of a young Ethiopian girl and her adoptive parents are charged with her murder. A criminal attorney in Seattle takes on the case as his law practice nears its final days so he leans on his son as he prepares for the last trial of his career. This is a moving familial story about a father and son, a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life.Listen in...Host: John Uustal of Kelley | Uustal | Email John (jju@kulaw.com) | Follow John on Facebook (@JohnUustalTrialLawyer) | Follow John on Twitter (@JohnUustal)Visit the Top Shelf Trial School Book Club Website: Trial School Top ShelfFollow Trial School on Social Media: Facebook (@TrialSchool) | Twitter (@Trial_School) | Instagram (@Trial_School)Book and Guest Author: The Final Case  by David GutersonGuest: Mike Kelly of Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & SchoenbergerGuest: Brittany Henderson of Edwards PottingerGuest: Kristin Bianculli of Derrevere Stevens Black & CozadWatch the Webinar Video: The Final CaseAbout Trial School:Trial School is a private, confidential, and invitation-only organization that provides education and training for lawyers who represent people. Trial School is different from all other trial advocacy programs in that it features a unique Mixed Method Advocacy or “MMA” approach. To apply click HERE.-----------------Production House: Flint Stone MediaCopyright of Trial School 2023.

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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. And today we talk about Handsome Hawke himself - Ethan Hawke! The multi-hyphenate has made a career out of B-Sides, and today we choose four: Great Expectations, Snow Falling on Cedars, Tape, and Predestination. Dan and Conor are lucky to have the great Luke Hicks along for the ride. We discuss the early films of Hawke, the hotness of “Shark Hunter Hawke” in Great Expectations, his movie star run in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, and his diverse pivot into character work up to and including the present. There's also talk of Hawke's directorial career, some debate over is the deliberate pace of Snow Falling on Cedars actually works, and this in-depth piece on Predestination. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter and Facebook at @TFSBSide. Also enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. We are also now on Spotify and Stitcher. Enjoy!

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I was thinking about Growing Pains on this walk--the old TV show. I was thinking about how the dad, Jason Seaver (Alan Thicke), worked at home; he was a psychologist with a private practice in an office right off the family living room. (Horrendous home-office placement, particularly in a family with three loud, wise-cracking kids, but I digress.) I'd never before seen a dad who worked at home. None of the actual dads I knew, in real life, worked at home. They all drove away in the mornings to be middle-men, or lawyers or "sell components"  I can't claim that sifting through these memories of Jason Seaver as I walked through the woods birthed any great epiphanies or insights. It's just, some thirty-five years later, I'm a dad who works at home myself. And on days like this--a snow day, when my daughters are off from school, rambunctiously skipping back and forth from the neighbors, making snow angels and sledding, and I'm up in my office over the garage, yapping on the phone with book publicity people and typing (always typing)--I feel grateful to be a dad who works at home: grateful to be here, looking down on them from my peculiar perch, and taking a break to share hot cocoa, share the burden, share in the laughter and love. Rain or shine. All the time.  This week's walk is sponsored by Sean Sullivan, who thinks you'll like The Monolith, a short documentary by Rosie Walunas. You can see it here.

What good have you done lately? This is a question Cameron Madill thinks about a lot.  With that thought, he's built an agency that oozes with corporate good. But this wasn't at a cost. Not in the longterm anyway. In fact, since then, he's doubled his business.  Is this what you get when you take a kid from Portland, send him to Stanford to get a degree in physics and have him start an agency with his dad? Nah. It's more complex than that. Cameron Madill's a deep thinker. A learner according to one personality test. And an all-around good guy who has genuine give a damn written all over him.  It's paid off. And my bet is it will continue to pay dividends for his people, his pocket and our planet for a long time. In our second episode of The Climb, we take a deep dive into what it means to become a Certified B Corp, falling into a business vertical and aligning values with work.  Be sure to subscribe! _____________________________ Show Notes: Books Mentioned Ray Dalio - Principles book Who Says Elephants Can't Dance book So You've Been Publicly Shamed book Snow Falling on Cedars book New Jim Crow book Inside Advantage book Other Links EOS - https://www.eosworldwide.com/ The book report Cameron sent me when we first met Certified B Corp - https://bcorporation.net/ Cameron's Agency - https://www.pixelspoke.com/ Cameron's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmadill/ https://floridaforgood.com/ Entrepreneur's Organization - https://www.eonetwork.org/ The book report Cameron sent me when we first met Cameron's Favorite Non-Profit - https://oregonbravo.org/ Keep in Touch Join Digital Mastermind: Website ► https://www.digitalmastermind.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Connect with Jon Tsourakis: Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/jon.tsourakis/ Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/jontsourakis/ LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/jontsoura... Twitter ► https://twitter.com/jontsourakis

Originally from Portland, Oregon, Connor Johnston is a graduate of NYU Tisch. Connor's theater credits include: Snow Falling on Cedars (Portland Center Stage), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (The Flea Theater), Rabbit Hole (Theatre with a View). Film/TV credits include NBC's "Grimm" and CBS's "Elementary" & "Madam Secretary" and supporting roles in the independent films, "All These Small Moments" and "Something Like Summer.” Connor is also funny and performs with his improv team, Microdose, around the city - @MicrodoseImprov. www.connorjohnston.com @conjohn18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this 25-minute podcast, four top leaders of Bainbridge Performing Arts (BPA) -- the Board President, Executive Director, Production Manager, and Education Director -- tell us about all the pieces that fit together for a main stage production. And they share some of the surprising ins and outs -- the fun and the gritty challenges -- of one of the most successful and enterprising community theaters in the northwest. It's now celebrating its 60th year. Ever wonder how they do it? How do they put on a show - sometimes a complex show - with actors, dancers, singers, a musical ensemble (on stage), with sets that spin around and become something altogether different? BCB's Channie Peters has a fascinating conversation with BPA Board President Debbie MacLeod, Executive Director Dominique Cantwell, Production Manager Deirdre Hadlock, and Education Director Liz Ellis. They cover a wide range of topics, from BPA's mission ... to how those sets are conceived and created ... to how the theatre school does much more to nurture the whole youngster than just teaching acting skills. On any afternoon or evening, the lights are on and there is much activity in the BPA theatre stage, rehearsal rooms and double-wide trailers behind the building. In addition to rehearsing for the next production, to building the sets and making the costumes for the next production, BPA's theatre school is probably in session for kids from 4 years old to 18. Here, actors, directors and volunteers find a strong sense of community, much fun and laughter, and also a supportive learning environment. If you've ever attended the best of community theatre here on Bainbridge Island, you've probably wondered how they can produce superb shows with the variety of Amadeus (having a live musical ensemble on stage), Little Mermaid (with actors “swimming” on stage), Snow Falling on Cedars, Hair, The Kentucky Cycle (6 hours of gripping drama), and Grapes of Wrath. This is the podcast that gives us a good sense of what's involved, and how you can get involved in a theater adventure that represents thousands of hours of community volunteer involvement each year. Credits: BCB host: Channie Peters; BCB audio editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters.

Listen in on Kate Carruthers' fascinating conversation with BCB host Channie Peters. You'll hear about Kate's love for theatre, which has been a strong thread throughout her life, even during her very successful career as an attorney and Bainbridge Island's municipal judge. Theatre has been Kate's first love since her first high school play and her years majoring in theatre in college. Her intention to continue theatre arts in graduate school was sidetracked by the need to embark on a career that would support herself and two young daughters. She describes her choice of a legal career, and how she found legal practice to be similar, and yet complementary, to her love for staging plays. How does an aspiring actor/director decide to make a career as an attorney, partner in a prestigious Seattle law firm, lead a private practice here on Bainbridge, and later serve as our municipal judge? Throughout it all, Kate found time to raise two daughters, start a theatre company, and direct many noteworthy plays for Bainbridge Performing Arts. Her credits are many and varied. A few are: "The Kentucky Cycle", "Philadelphia Story", "Snow Falling on Cedars", "Amadeus", and "Much Ado About Nothing" (performed outdoors at the Bloedel Reserve). This podcast will enable you to hear how, in Kate's life, theater has provided deep meaning and a vehicle for artistic expression. No wonder she is being honored by Arts and Humanities Bainbridge as one of this year's two Island Treasures. The annual tradition of recognizing two exceptional contributors to local arts are humanities dates back to the year 2000. The Island Treasure Award ceremony will be Saturday February 18 at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. It begins with wine and hors d'oeuvres at 6:15 pm, with the awards ceremony at 6:40 and a reception at 7:30. Tickets can be purchased at Brown Paper Tickets online here. Seating is very limited. For further information or to reserve by phone, call 206-842-1246. Credits: BCB host: Channie Peters; BCB audio editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters. Photo credit: Cynthia Sears.

Director Kate Carruthers has brought some extraordinary productions to the BPA stage in recent years, most notably her ambitious undertaking of the nine plays of The Kentucky Cycle and last year's Snow Falling on Cedars. But this year she's outdone herself; together with Music Director Josh Anderson she is staging Peter Shaffer's magnificent Amadeus, complete with period costumes, a live chamber group, and a choral ensemble. First written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, Amadeus was revised six times over the following 21 years, including a version for the 1984 movie. Over these six revisions, the play moved from a simple melodrama to become the heart-wrenching tragedy of Antonio Salieri. The established composer in the court of the Austrian Emperor Josef, Salieri has given himself to God so that he might realize his sole ambition to be a great composer. Enter Mozart -- a foul-mouthed, graceless oaf who composes rapturously beautiful music with a genius far beyond Salieri's envious grasp. For Salieri, the realization of his own relative mediocrity despite his sacrifices becomes more than he can bear, and he hatches a complex plot to gain ultimate revenge over Mozart and God. The final revision of Amadeus has been performed many times in the US and Europe, but only rarely with the music of Mozart -- which Shaffer considers to be the third character in this play -- performed live by a chamber group and choral ensemble. In this podcast, Kate Carruthers and Josh Anderson explain to BCB host Channie Peters how they are working together to weave the passionate words of this extraordinary play with the sublime music of Mozart. This special BPA production, they tell us, has become possible only because of the exceptional musical talent and skill of Jon Brenner, who has arranged the music to accommodate the smaller number of musicians and singers who will be part of the performance. The production is also considerably enhanced by the period costume designs of Barbara Klingberg, a successful architect who has designed costumes for Broadway shows and movies. Because this production is not a musical, but a play with music, the challenge of directing the acting, singing and orchestration will be complex. But if anyone can pull that off, we're sure Kate and Josh are up to the task -- and their vision of the end result in this podcast sounds exhilarating! You won't want to miss this extraordinary show: Amadeus opens Friday, March 11 and will run Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through March 26th at Bainbridge Performing Arts. Tickets are on sale now at the BPA website or by visiting or calling (206-842-8569) the BPA box office. Credits: BCB host: Channie Peters; BCB audio editor: Barry Peters; social media publishers: Diane Walker and Barry Peters.

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/wu-137-kay-sakai-nakao-movie-april-25/ At 9 am on Saturday April 25 at the Community Center, the final stage of our two-month reflection on the Japanese Exclusion will occur as Island filmmaker Cameron Snow unveils her movie about the life of community member Kay Sakai Nakao.  This wrenchingly honest movie begins by chronicling Kay's pre-war experience during the first 22 years of her life here on the island. It then examines her internment at an American concentration camp, and follows her return to Bainbridge Island.  After the movie there will be a post-film discussion led by Professor David Schulz, co-author of The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control. Professor Schulz chairs the Communication Department at Trinity Lutheran College in Everett, WA, and his discussion will focus on how communal memory is formed, how it is vulnerable to manipulation, and finally, how it can be restored to reflect a more accurate, objective truth.  It is hoped that through this thoughtful “summary conversation” to the Snow Falling on Cedars community activities our attention will turn toward what lessons we have learned and how we, as a community, can move gracefully forward from this point. Doors will open for this free event at 8:45, Saturday, April 25. Movie begins at 9 am, No reservation required. Complimentary popcorn included!! For more information, call 206 842-1616 or visit www.biparks.org. Credits:  BCB Host, audio tech, and audio editor Joanna Pyle; assistant audio editor Chris Walker; BCB publisher Diane Walker.