Who You Are

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts. –Arthur Conan Doyle Standing in the accelerating sleet last night, the pinks and blues and purples burst above us like the Space Needle was imploding in the most […]

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Deserving Love

We often feel that we get what we deserve. The basic law, “the wages of sin is death” is operating. We think that if we are not loved, it must be because we did not earn it. The truth is, we can’t earn love. It is just something that someone decides to feel toward us. […]

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The Show Must Go On

Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, collectively known as 2Cellos, have released their take on The Show Must Go On for the 25th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death. They continually amaze me with their passion, deliciously mad creativity, and the new ways they find to use their instruments.

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Yours for $116,500

On Wednesday, August 17th, Kirkland, Washington’s Trueblood House was moved around the corner to a temporary location until a buyer can be found. KIRO News had their helicopter in the air for the actual move and cameras on the ground. The move began at 11 A.M. It was supposed to take up to three hours. […]

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Faux Blood Moon?

WOW. I was just coming home from the store and had to stop to take pictures of this gorgeous rising moon. I couldn’t quite get a steady shot, even balancing the camera on a fire hydrant, but you can see why I was in awe. We aren’t due for another blood moon yet, but this […]

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Ready to Roll

Tomorrow, August 17th, 2016, at 11 A.M., the 1889 Trueblood House in Kirkland, Washington is going to move a block or so. The power lines in front will come down and it will be carefully rolled forward to 7th Avenue between two poles, one of which already has a pronounced lean. The owner offered to give […]

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Bothell Burning

Yesterday, in the early morning hours of July 22nd, several explosions were heard in the area of 102nd and Main Street. Neighbors looked out their windows to find the historic Mercantile Building, which was being expanded into multistory apartments, engulfed in flames. Morning traffic reports warned drivers that State Route 522 was shut down near […]

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Those Little Things…

At work. Had recently bought a basket from the dollar store for our rubber bands. Noticed an unopened package of colorful rubber bands. Mixed them into the bland-colored ones. Somehow it’s mesmerizing. At a Fourth of July parade. A brigade of Minis drives by. One had these hilarious signs on his car. No, it’s not […]

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