05/15/2026
The Life Changing Magic of Orcas Island. Part 725-ish. Every year, sometimes more than once a year, we leave the world and enter Orcas Island. We stay in the same little log cabin ( #2) at our favorite 2-star “resort” and unplug. There is no wi-fi. No cell coverage. No tv. Not even a microwave. My sister says it looks like a sh*tty version of our house. This makes me laugh. Even though we always do the exact same things, it is never the same thing twice. We: 1) head straight to the grocery store and share the most delicious Stouffer Mac-n-cheese from the hot bar. We’d never eat this crap at home but here it is so delicious. 2) We walk the lakes, quiet, crisp air, mossy woods, soft paths. 3) We sit on the deck for hours and hours and the sound of the waves washes over us and our souls settle. The life changing magic of Orcas Island gives exactly what is needed. Sometimes this is tears. I don’t always know what tensions or grief or fear is being carried because day to day life is so busy. Sometimes it is pages and pages written about what we’ll do next: house projects, business ideas, ridiculous flights of fancy of “could and what-ifs”. It’s deep sleep that eludes me at home and an internal reset. And most of time, it’s all of these. Every single time. Magic.
