Alan was born July 22 1947, in Topeka, Kansas, to Dr Robert Langhorn Worthington and Frances (Taylor) Worthington. They moved to Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle when Alan was 2 years old. They then moved to Bellevue, WA. Alan went to Sammamish high. He then went to UC Santa Cruz. He attended San Diego state for graduate school and got his Master’s Degree in Social Work. He loved to study alternative psychology, including Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, and Philosophy. He worked for the US Post Office, and for California clinics. He met Janet Way in 1973 and they married in January 1978. Their son Travis was born in 1980. They moved to Seattle, and started Janet’s art business, Metamorphix, which he helped administer. Their son Spencer came along in 1986. He went back to school to get his teaching certificate at SPU, and substitute taught at Northshore and Lake Washington school districts. He worked at Seattle farmers markets for Appel Farms, and later for Olsen Farms, where he spent ten years.
He loved watching Washington Sports, especially Mariners Baseball, Husky Football and Gonzaga Basketball. He loved classic rock and country music. He played a mean ping-pong game. He was owned by many cats, including Charlie, Domino, Shrimp, Tiger, Whereabouts, Whatnot, Rapscallion, Ruffian, and Scalawag. He enjoyed politics, reading books, stand-up comedians, movies, and self-deprecating humor.And his hobby was making beautiful stained glass windows!
He loved his wife, his sons, and his granddaughter Ivy. He loved life, but knew the world as temporary and illusory. He saw beyond the vale. His personality was driven by compassion, because he knew that within us lives the spark of the divine, that we are everyone, and they are us. He saw the world as beautiful, and the people in it as good, because he was good, and it couldn’t have been anything other. He worked and struggled for years to write and publish two books, on understanding the universe and oneself, “Be The Ball” and “The Very Last Self-Help Book.”. On a speck of dust, floating in a sunbeam, we are all that we have ever known. We are stardust. And yet we each reach upwards, ever searching for meaning. He knew we were just searching for ourselves.
We invite everyone who cared about Alan to attend his Celebration Of Life gathering Monday, 4/16/18 at McMenamins Anderson School, Bothell, WA, 6-9 pm.
Please visit Alan Worthington Legacy site.
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