A Hat Tip For Hands

#29 Thanks A LOTT to a Wastewater Wizard: Infrastructure Super Friends Part 1 (featuring Ken Butti)

Ken Butti, Director of Operations and Facility of LOTT Clean Water Alliance, shares all things wastewater treatment from the bowl to the sea. Ken gives an overview of how this happens, its implications on our environment, and a peek into one of this nation's best treatment facilities right here in the south Puget Sound. Ken's competence, kindness, and care, will have everyone thinking about what happens after the next flush!

#28 Bridges Between People: Team Gonzalez Part 2 (featuring Danielle Gonzales)

Danielle Gonzalez, a behavioral analyst, talks about her work bridging the gap between those with autism and others. She shares her work with Behavior Bridges, finding ways to help those with autism connect, interpret, understand, and develop life skills to better function in their daily lives. We explore the secret society of having family members with special needs, and the impact her brother, Brandon, has had on her. We talk babies, mixed race family, and about getting it right, rather than being right.

#27 Team Gonzalez Part 1, Diaries Of A Co-worker Part 2 (featuring Dr. Eliseo Gonzalez)

Dr. Eliseo Gonzalez, chiropractor, joins us to talk about becoming a provider, about our parallel universes as colleagues and having brother’s with special needs and  Down’s Syndrome, and shared roots in Yakima, WA.  We explore cultural and racial identity and the notion of asking others about their identity preferences.  Dr. Eli, as he’s known in our office, shares his experience as a Texano, Yakamanian, Mexican American, Latino, Hispanic,  bi-racial, one-quarter French, fellow human.

#26 Three Generations of Coastal Custodians: Trash Talk, Part 1 (featuring Bill Irey, Tim Irey, and Grant Irey)

Three generations of Irey's, Bill, 84, Tim, 53, and Grant, 18, share their tradition of beach clean up on remote stretches of the Olympic National Park, coastal trail, in Washington State. We talk (coastal) trash, the outdoors, family, and stewardship. Their infectious outlook on taking care of our world will have you carrying a grabber and a box of trash bags everywhere you go!

#25 Caring, Connecting, and Contemplating as a Nurse, Immigrant, and Asian American (featuring Toni Ransom)

Toni Ransom, shares her perspectives as a nurse over her career and this past year as we commemorate International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, designated by The World Health Organization for 2020.  In addition, Toni shares her experience as an immigrant from South Korea, and her life as an Asian American. We talk about the experience of finding a better life, racism, and the challenges of finding a sense of place in the face of attitudes of difference.