Local Students Write Love Letters to Their South Sound Hometowns: Tacoma

Readers and South Sounders: Tacoma School of the Arts Humanities students are participating in writing "love letters" to their hometowns. The writing exercise combines creativity, editing, and getting the letters published. Join me in celebrating these students and their wonderful letters in the upcoming letter series featured on the In Your Neighborhood blog. Read on and enjoy!

Dear Tacoma,

    Your beautiful in every single way. Your humid summers, cold rainy winters and everything in between. Your downtown lights sparkling in the night and the cold winds blowing in your grass fields. Freezing harsh waves hit your rocks, as the pigeons fly by. People fluster around like no one is able to stop. This city never sleeps, this city never stops.

                Love,

                    Alicia Owens, Student

                Tacoma School of The Arts

Local Students Write Love Letters to Their South Sound Hometowns: Lakewood

  Readers and South Sounders: Tacoma School of the Arts Humanities students are participating in writing "love letters" to their hometowns. The writing exercise combines creativity, editing, and getting the letters published. Join me in celebrating these students and their wonderful letters in the upcoming letter series featured on the In Your Neighborhood blog. Read on and enjoy! 

Dear Lakewood,
       You are not where I was born and you are not where I will die.
 Though I am with you for now, I don't know how long it will last.
 One day, if I am gone and you  wonder where I went,
 just remember all of our memories and the time we have spent together.
 You hosted all my childhood adventures and supplied plenty of rain.
 Although most find you gloomy, and your bipolar weather drives them
 insane, I thank you for reminding me of home. You stink far less than
 your neighbor Tacoma! So thank you for understanding why I can't
 keep living in your streets which lose all pleasantries at night.
 You fueled my imagination and I imagine you will know,
 when I miss my true home too much and finally decide to go.

~Billy Robison, student

Tacoma  School of the Arts

Local Students Write Love Letters to Their South Sound Hometowns: Tacoma

Readers and South Sounders: Tacoma School of the Arts Humanities students are participating in writing "love letters" to their hometowns. The writing exercise combines creativity, editing, and getting the letters published. Join me in celebrating these students and their wonderful letters in the upcoming letter series featured on the In Your Neighborhood blog. Read on and enjoy!

Dear Tacoma,
You are my hometown. You are my base, my concrete base that allows me to build the house that is my life. Even though I sometimes need a break from your indecisive weather and gray bleak skies, I know that you have helped me to figure out who I am and where I want to go. You are home to everything that is familiar and comfortable to me. I'm excited to wander the world and explore, but I'm glad I'll always have you to return to.
Love,
Stacy Millsap, student
Tacoma School of the Arts

Local Students Write Love Letters to Their South Sound Hometowns: Ruston

Readers and South Sounders: Tacoma School of the Arts Humanities students are participating in writing "love letters" to their hometowns. The writing exercise combines creativity, editing, and getting the letters published. Join me in celebrating these students and their wonderful letters in the upcoming letter series featured on the In Your Neighborhood blog. Read on and enjoy!

 Dear Ruston,

                You are my childhood. You are imagination personified. You are the fountain from which blissful phantasmagoria and fantastic daydreams sprung forth in infinite supply, bubbling with whimsy and extraordinary characters. You are where I learned the meaning of family; where living harmoniously with so many people could make me feel unnatural in a quiet room, and still can to this day. You are Don’s Market –formerly known as Dean’s Market – in business for 84 years and counting. You are the housing of poorly crafted clubhouses, functioning as make-shift headquarters for 2 international secret agents wielding classified information and a license to kill. You were undoubtedly a catalyst in my bond with animals, encouraging the connection by providing me stray cats, possums, dying birds, and no less than 4 caterpillars named Henry which I killed on accident. You are sweet summer days at Owen Beach with snow cones and sand hills and hidden secret tunnels.

                But most of all, Ruston, you are 12 amazing years of unbridled innocence, happiness, and wonder. You are my home, and I miss you terribly.

Much love, forever and ever,

Katie Knoll, student

Tacoma School of the Arts

Local Students Write Love Letters to Their South Sound Hometowns: Tacoma

Readers and South Sounders: Tacoma School of the Arts Humanities students are participating in writing "love letters" to their hometowns. The writing exercise combines creativity, editing, and getting the letters published. Join me in celebrating these students and their wonderful letters in the upcoming letter series featured on the In Your Neighborhood blog. Read on and enjoy!


Dear Tacoma,
   You are not my hometown! You are not even my home. I didn't even like you at first--but at present, it is you who is impacting my life most. So far, our time together has been short, but in this short time you have helped me to grow in a way I never thought I could. You have taught me things that I wouldn't have learned anywhere else, and introduced me to experiences that are irreplaceable.
   You have invited me to open myself up to the wonder of discovery--not only here, but in my own home and everywhere I go. You have given me more opportunities to learn and grow than I ever expected of you. The beauty of your buildings, the complexity of people, the puget sound, the joy of every experience--you have opened my heart to it all, and I thank you for it.
   In fact, when contemplating departure, and even after deciding to leave you behind, I found myself unable to. I came running back, wide open. The reason is simple: you make me feel alive. Now that we have connected, I feel certain that the impact you have left will remain with me forever.

Yours,
Rosie Koppelman, student
Tacoma School of the Arts

This has absolutely nothing to do with Tacoma--satisfy your curiosity

This has nothing to do with neighborhoods, Grit City, or the South Sound. 

It's just silly. And if you are child of the 70's and 80's, you'll especially want to read on.

I had a good laugh and a walk down memory lane this morning on Facebook, so I turned into an all video post on Gritty City Woman. If you recognize the picture below, then this is the post for you. Click HERE to see more.

Happy Friday, Tacoma!

South Sound: Can You Come Up With A Caption for These Pictures?

Hello South Sounders! Here are some random pictures. Let's have fun and put captions on them shall we? 


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Have fun with this! You can also play along at grittycitywoman.com, too!