Acknowledgment of America's First Peoples -- Introduction -- Part I. The Tillikum -- Ferry Boat Meditation--11/11/14 -- Writing Space Available -- Friends and Relatives -- Not Just a Drill -- Jammin' on the Salish Sea -- Like Cutting Through Butter -- Part II. Writer-in-Residence -- res·i·dent -- Writer in a Life Vest -- Nine Ways to Write on the Ferry When You're the Writer-in-residence -- WSF Song -- Writers on Board -- A Grand Total -- Part III. The Salish Sea -- Petition for a Name Change -- So Much to Learn -- A Place the Sun Never Reaches -- The Blister of Greed -- Vows for the Salish Sea -- Part IV. The Orcas--Southern Resident Killer Whales -- O is for Orca -- Can You Hear Me? -- Bereavement -- Tenacious Scarlet -- Conflicted -- Birth Announcement -- Part V. Conversations & Correspondence: Real and Imagined -- A Posthumous Interview with Rachel Carson -- Wild Sea Doctor -- Imagined Conversation Between Rachel Carson and Greta Thunberg -- Everybody Loves a Pooping Whale -- Postcard from Wild Orcas -- Thank You Note from the Orcas--October 12, 2019 -- Part VI. Hope -- Environmentalism Meets Anti-racism -- Lessons -- Baby Pictures -- The Salish Sea's Right to Survive and Thrive -- Lights, Camera, Action -- Youth Take on the Government -- Resources -- Acknowledgments -- Thank You -- About the Author.
Summary:
In 2018-19, Iris Graville served as Washington State Ferries' (WSF) first Writer-in-Residence. Sailing in the Salish Sea's San Juan Archipelago, she wrote about how climate change threatens its interwoven lattice of beauty, wildness, fragility, and relationship. Writer in a Life Vest leads readers to ask questions and find hope.
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