Whaddayaknow... my favorite news source has published a very flattering article about Bainbridge Island.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/greathomesanddestinations/16havens.html?_r=1&ref=realestate
I'll let the article do the talking.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Drinking the Kool-Aid
I love Bainbridge Island. If there's a better place to live, I challenge someone to prove it. A few things happened over the holiday season that were great reminders of what makes this place special. There is REAL community here.
Whether or not you live on Bainbridge, you may have heard about the snow storms we had in the final weeks of December that left a lot of people without power and unable to leave there homes because the roads were pretty treacherous. Friends called each other to see if everyone had what they needed to get by. I have a friend who lives down the street from me who still had power, while I did not one day. That particular day I was home with my two children, with no way to make coffee because while I did have whole beans, a French press, and a gas cook top, I didn't have a way to grind the beans. Knowing how important coffee is to me, my friend not only stopped by with a thermos of hot coffee to pour me a cup but he also brought some ground coffee over. It sure helped me make it through the day with two restless kids!
Another story revolves around an annual party my family attends on New Year's Eve. Each year at this party we ring in the new year with lasagna, a movie for the kids, a white elephant gift exchange and a children's book exchange. Having waited until the last minute to get a book, I frantically went from store to store trying to find a children's book because the book store had closed early. I popped my head into a card shop and asked if they happened to have any children's books; they said they didn't and while I moved on to the next retailer a woman came out of the card shop and tracked me down. She had overheard my question and happened to have an extra copy of a beautiful compilation of children's story's in her car (her child already had a copy of the same book). She gave it to me and would not take anything in return.
I love living in a place where people go out of their way to help out their neighbors, in ways small and large. Thoughtfulness and generosity abounds here. People are kind to each other. Maybe I'm just drinking the Kool-Aid, or maybe this place I call home is really special.
Whether or not you live on Bainbridge, you may have heard about the snow storms we had in the final weeks of December that left a lot of people without power and unable to leave there homes because the roads were pretty treacherous. Friends called each other to see if everyone had what they needed to get by. I have a friend who lives down the street from me who still had power, while I did not one day. That particular day I was home with my two children, with no way to make coffee because while I did have whole beans, a French press, and a gas cook top, I didn't have a way to grind the beans. Knowing how important coffee is to me, my friend not only stopped by with a thermos of hot coffee to pour me a cup but he also brought some ground coffee over. It sure helped me make it through the day with two restless kids!
Another story revolves around an annual party my family attends on New Year's Eve. Each year at this party we ring in the new year with lasagna, a movie for the kids, a white elephant gift exchange and a children's book exchange. Having waited until the last minute to get a book, I frantically went from store to store trying to find a children's book because the book store had closed early. I popped my head into a card shop and asked if they happened to have any children's books; they said they didn't and while I moved on to the next retailer a woman came out of the card shop and tracked me down. She had overheard my question and happened to have an extra copy of a beautiful compilation of children's story's in her car (her child already had a copy of the same book). She gave it to me and would not take anything in return.
I love living in a place where people go out of their way to help out their neighbors, in ways small and large. Thoughtfulness and generosity abounds here. People are kind to each other. Maybe I'm just drinking the Kool-Aid, or maybe this place I call home is really special.
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