Dear friends,

After 6-1/2 years at the Seattle Healing Arts Center, and many months of discussion and planning (and after 5 years as our previous incarnation in Lake City), today is the last day of operations for One Sky Wellness Associates! 

Though One Sky as a group practice and a business is dissolving, we are still in collaborative relationship with one another as practitioners, and continue to be honored and glad to be part of our patients' care teams.

Here is information about where we are all going:

Dan Buquicchio, DC, former One Sky practitioner Gail Buquicchio ND, and Christy Lee-Engel, ND, EAMP, are moving back to the Lake City Professional Center to create a new practice called Core Chiropractic and Wellness (http://corechiropracticseattle.com/). 

Chris Adams MD, Alison Kneisl MD, Joshua Leahy ND EAMP, Tracy McDaniel ND LM, Tara Shelby ND LM, will continue to see primary care patients, and Karen Stocker, CC will continue to see clients for psychotherapy, in Suite 300 at the Seattle Healing Arts Center, through the end of 2011 (and then will be moving to a new clinic site, near Childrens Hospital -check www.villagewellness.org and http://oneskywellness.com to know where they'll be in the new year!)

Chris Gaynor MD has already started seeing primary care patients at Qliance, downtown:www.qliance.com/location-seattle.html

Dave Smart EAMP is in private practice and also offering community acupuncture at Dragonfly Holistic Healing in Fremont: www.dragonflyholistichealing.com

We're moving on with much appreciation for all the community support we have benefited from over the years, and all of the folks who have trusted us to care for them. We hope to continue to work with you into the future!

Photo by One Sky's therapist-in-residence, Karen Stocker, MA

 

One Sky Wellness Associates will be closed due to inclement weather on Tuesday, November 23. If you're already an established patient of the clinic and have an urgent medical question, you can get the after-hours phone number for your doctor by phoning our office number, 206 363 5555 and listening to the greeting. 

Dr. Dan offers this for the change in the weather:

Baked Butternut Squash:

Cut a butternut squash in half and scoop out & discard the seeds.
Put a tablespoon of butter into each of the halves.
Then sprinkle a little spoonful of brown sugar on each half and then bake at 350 degrees for a half hour or until the the meat of the squash is soft and ready to eat.

Delish!

Serena Kennedy, an integral staff member of One Sky Wellness Associates, has been with us for five years now and we are very thankful and glad! As well as taking great care of our medical records and assisting with clinic billing and finances, Serena is a doting mom, an elegant style icon for us, and a skillful, intuitive, massage therapist. Happy Anniversary to Serena, with lots of appreciation from the rest of us!

From one of our family practitioners, Dr. Chris Adams:

We are opening up some room on our blog to share books, recipes, and other resources that inspire, nourish, and enlighten. We want to participate in the many ways that will move us to a greater depth of appreciation and caring for ourselves, our relationships, our cultures, our planet, and the mysterious web of life that holds us all together.

The Circumference of Home, by Kurt Hoelting, chronicles and reflects on a year lived within a hundred kilometer radius, centered on Whidbey Island, from winter solstice of 2007 to winter solstice of 2008, during which Hoelting renounced automobiles and traveled only by foot, bike, boat, and public transportation.  The writing is personal, lyrical, vivid and honest; his careful and diligent research informs in a way that deepens the reader into a greater awareness of the powerful history--geological, native and contemporary--of the Puget Sound area originally known as the Salish Sea.  His narrative places himself at the center of a sacred pilgrimage in which he lives lightly on the land, while exploring our diverse terrain--natural, citified, and industrialized--at a slow enough speed to drop into understanding our choices and their impact on the earth.

The author embarks on this journey as a question to himself and, in turn to all of us, about what it will take to wake up to the true effect of our ways and to examine the hidden trails that bring the comforts of life to us.  Taking joy in that process is essential to being able to translate the feasibility of lightening our carbon footprint and shifting the way we live to more sustainable ways. What I appreciate most in this book is the way he takes into his heart the despair inherent in the recognition of how profoundly we have changed our earth home. He invites us into the many layers of considering how we can move into a future where we honor our ancestors and the wisdom of nature that will guide us forward. 

This book invites us to travel through the seasons, with our senses alive, as we journey along with the author in getting to know the sacred land and waters intimately. In the wake of reading this book, I find myself contemplating the ways that I can make a shift in my life, in terms of looking at my own tread, how I encourage others to look at their tread, and how I live from a place of deep wonder, gratitude, and reverence for this mysterious, sentient, and precious planet of ours.   This book reads as an awakening and inspiration for us all.

More about the book: http://insidepassages.com/?page_id=910

And more about the book's author: Kurt Hoelting is a commercial fisherman, wilderness guide and meditation teacher. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he is the founder of Inside Passages, a sea kayaking outfitter / guide business in Alaska that combines wilderness experience with meditation practice and contemplative silence. He is the author of The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest For A Radically Local Life. Hoelting lives with his family on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound.

 

 

 

 

Our dear friend, colleague, and mentor, Fred Lanphear, passed away peacefully last night. Fred, one of the original founders of One Sky Medicine, was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) three years ago. In the time since then, he has become more and more radiant, his always-kindly nature shining out ever more clearly as he became physically dependent on his loving family and his very wide community of friends and neighbors.

One Sky Medicine began as a conversation convened by Fred when he was the President of the Northwest Institute for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine around several questions: "What would it mean to heal healthcare?" and "What would it look like to have a clinic that was 'an equal playing field' for all the disciplines?" After almost two years of thinking and talking and planning together with a varying cast of interested and interesting people, we opened in July 2000, with Fred as our Executive Director. When he retired several years later, he became the Chair of our Board (we were a not-for-profit then). After that, and all along, he has been our clinic's most dedicated supporter and cheerleader.

Fred has been many other things, too - an accomplished botanist and landscaper of sacred gardens, a lifelong communitarian and board member for the Fellowship for Intentional Community, and with his wife Nancy, he worked for 20 years with Institute of Cultural Affairs in Africa and India. 

Fred's last blog post, written a few days ago by dictating it to a friend, is titled "An Amazing Summer!" and is a wonderful glimpse of an amazing and great soul: http://ht.ly/18T9Li