You’re reading The Husk's Friday edition, our Weekender, a countdown/roundup of miscellanea from Micronesia, Guam, and Earth.

stories from the Pacific Island Times

• Daughter of Yap, UOG valedictorian begins Harvard Medical School

• Remember when no one in D.C. was working on negotiating Compacts? Well the times are a’changing. The U.S. is actively courting the islands. Read more: Shunned for many years, Pacific islands are now drenched in US attention

• Update on Palau’s digital currency venture: Palau's stablecoin set to enter pilot phase

social posts

• Ever since I learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I’ve been keen on any updates. Here’s a recent tweet from The Ocean Cleanup, which links to a pretty cool video.

The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup

According to our projections, we expect to be able to clean the entire Great Pacific Garbage Patch (containing 100,000,000kg of plastic) using ten systems based on System 03.

September 20th 2022

42,499 Retweets196,242 Likes

• When I linked to the first news story I ever saw of the “Masters of the Currents” play back in April 2021, I remember wishing I could somehow watch the entire production, even through a livestream. Just seeing an 8-minute video gave me goosebumps.

  By the grace of God Herself, it turns out that I will, in fact, be able to watch the entire production. I’m so grateful to Humanities Guåhan and Breaking Wave Theatre Company because TeAda Productions, along with Breaking Wave, will be performing “Masters of the Currents” on Guam next week. I considered buying tickets for all the showings but I work at those times so that was wholly impractical. (Full disclosure: I have not yet ruled out calling in sick and going to all the showings anyway. So.)

bwtcguam

A post shared by Breaking Wave Theatre Company (@bwtcguam)

new island

Here’s a story from NPR about a new volcanic island that’s emerged near Tonga, which is expected to eventually disappear.¹

Every week, The Husk will leave you with a send-off song, curated by my brother Henry. This week, we invite you to enjoy the smooth vocals of J Stringz in “Forever.”

So, I’ll see you guys at the “Masters of the Currents” show. Dinner after or what?

Have a great weekend!

-Jasmine² ³