After many years of living in rural high mountain towns in landlocked states- I moved reluctantly to Seattle, following a job. I thought to myself that I would only be here for a few years; I sorely missed living in the mountains. I missed rural life. Puget Sound eased me into shifting my paradigm. I slowly rediscovered the joys of playing on the beach-as I child, I spent summers in Cape Cod in Massachusetts. After moving to West Seattle, I began to spend more time in parks flirting on their edges with industry. The West Duwamish Greenbelt, Lincoln park and the ferry dock, Jack Block park overlooking Harbor Island. It was in these urban/wild interfaces that I discovered a beauty and wonder stronger than I have found in more pristine wilderness. There is almost something more precious about our Puget Sound shores in their tenuousness. It was from this sense of respect and wonder in Seattle green spaces that I came to current job as a Project Manager at EarthCorps, a Seattle non-profit building global community through local environmental service. Even more so now I am surrounded by the way that shorebirds sound with the hum of industry in the background, amazing tide pools amidst homes and docks and beautiful forests with so much potential. For reasons I can't put my finger on-it all feels like home now. -- Lina Rose