Birthday/Earth Day

 



Ann had a birthday recently. As we recall, the only other birthday of her life that wasn’t spent with her parents was 2020 during COVID. It was certainly the only birthday in Oliver’s life that he wasn’t with her, and the second one for Henry.

We still managed. We had dinner at Woven, a waterfront restaurant we hadn't been to yet. It's owned by the Puyallup Tribe and focuses on food from the Pacific Islands. It was very good. For a birthday cake,


since it was just the two of us, I picked up a small cake from Metropolitan Market, the fancy grocery store in Tacoma. 

The most awkward part was when I brought out her cake and started singing Happy Birthday solo. I’m not a singer, and it didn’t sound all that festive. We quickly moved on to eating the cake.

Later in the week, we went to an Earth Day event. It was similar to Earth Day events back in Missouri, as it was a lot of government agencies and non-profits who care about the environment, presenting brochures and information to a few members of the general public who care enough about the environment to walk through a Earth Day event and maybe pick up a brochure.

I met a lot of great, motivated people there who were making a case for their cause, and the services they offered in an effort to make a difference. I signed up for some newsletters and connected to the Washington Trails Association


app, which may prove helpful sooner than later.

The event was much smaller than the Earth Day event in Columbia, but I think it was one of many in the area, whereas Columbia pulls it all together at one location in one day. I see the pluses and minuses of each approach, and I’m encouraged that people all over are putting forth the effort not just to care for creation, but also to help others do so. 

https://www.metropolitan-market.com/locations/tacoma

https://eatwoven.com/

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