NARA Seattle

The National Archives and Records Administration building in Seattle is slated for closure, which could send countless invaluable records, including tribal records, out of state and far away. To understand the purpose of this building and why it’s important to keep these records in our state, please see Seattle Now & Then: National Archives and […]

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Fullmåne

The Algonquian are credited with calling this moon, or tibik-kėzis, the Worm Moon. Tonight we were dazzled by the Worm Moon Super Moon, aka the Worm Super Moon. Even the shots when neighbor doggie with cataracts was getting tangled up in the tripod, which are not very focused, are captivating. Collective Evolution just posted a […]

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Salsuginis Bye and Bye

Safe indeed by land to journey,But the way is rough and trying,Long the road and full of turnings;Lovely is the ship on ocean,Beautiful to ride the billows,Journey easy o’er the waters,Sailing in a trusty vessel;Should the West-wind cross our pathway,Will the South-wind drive us northward… The Kalevala, Rune XXXIX If you are a regular here […]

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Perelandra

Both the humans trembled– Merlin because he did not know what was coming, Ransom because he knew. And now it came. It was fiery, sharp, bright and ruthless, ready to kill, ready to die, outspeeding light: it was Charity, not as mortals imagine it, not even as it has been humanised for them since the […]

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The Final Countdown

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. A.A. Milne How many bridges do you see in the above photo? This is the bridge across the Sammamish Slough in Kenmore, […]

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Last Call

If the Ericksen House in Bothell, Washington isn’t moved in March, it will be destroyed. The house and its neighbor have been sitting there patiently waiting for someone to move them. But despite being *FREE*, as in, COMPLETELY FREE BUILDINGS, no one has come for them. I wrote about these buildings in last October’s Necrotic […]

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Mes Amis

In a circle of true Friends each man is simply what he is: stands for nothing but himself. No one cares twopence about any one else’s family, profession, class, income, race, or previous history… That is the kingliness of Friendship. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our […]

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