UPDATE 12/16/10

On Dec. 15, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced his proposal for future uses of Seattle Center--including a new and expanded home for KEXP in the Northwest Rooms.

The move is an opportunity to transform the music station into a music center that will allow people to experience hundreds of live music performances each year at no charge. It is seen as a win not only for the internationally-renowned radio station and the Seattle Center campus, but also for the bustling Lower Queen Anne community.

I recently attended a lecture given by Eric Liu, former deputy domestic policy advisor for President Bill Clinton. Liu spoke to civics in Seattle, explaining the type of thinking that threads through the people of my city. He called it “ecosystem thinking,” a notion that we are all connected, an awareness of the environment around us. He embodied this type of thinking with the “garden brain.”