In Seattle for two weeks, starting on the 2nd.  Doing a little money-making corset gig.  If you're in town, say hey.

After 37 years as a resident, after tonight I will be a visitor in Seattle.

I remember getting on the airplane to leave Boston for Seattle behind back in 1972.  That was gutsy, everything I owned in a back pack and a footlocker.  It takes a 14 foot moving van now.  I will be driving south, cats in their carriers beside me on the front seat, to my ( Read more... )

You may or may not know that I am moving to Portland, Oregon this summer, perhaps even by the first of June ( Read more... )

You are Derrial Book (Shepherd)Derrial Book (Shepherd)85%Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)70%Alliance55%Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)50%Wash (Ship Pilot)45%Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)40%Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)40%River (Stowaway)40%Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)30%A Reaver (Cannibal)30%Inara Serra (Companion)10%Even though you are holy
you have a mysterious ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are Derrial Book (Shepherd)
Derrial Book (Shepherd)
85%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
70%
Alliance
55%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)
50%
Wash (Ship Pilot)
45%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
40%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
40%
River (Stowaway)
40%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
30%
A Reaver (Cannibal)
30%
Inara Serra (Companion)
10% ( Read more... )

Anyone know of a small business bee keeper in the metro Seattle or metro Portland area? Also maybe someone in the vicinity of Palm Springs, California.

Any leads will "bee" appreciated!

Last night, when CNN declared Obama to be our next president, I was up on Pike Street. Suddenly people from Neumos and people from The Comet across the street just flowed out of the doors of those bars. Someone was beating a hand drum. People started dancing to the beat. Soon there were a thousand people in the street...dancing, cheering, ( Read more... )

Forty-eight years ago we selected another hero as our High King. He assembled a Round Table and led us in peace and in battle, and then he died and passed in the Mist.  Tonight I saw on a huge TV screen an ocean of the faces of all of us, from sea to shining sea, look upon a new King with admiration and spirit, gratefulness and hope.

I think it's a ( Read more... )

Don't know who wrote this, but I keep it close by.   This last picture goes with it.

Every year

everything

I have ever learned

in my lifetime

leads me back to this:  the fires

and the black river of loss,

whose other side

is salvation,

whose meaning

none of us will ever know.

To live in this world

you must be able

to do three things:

to love what is mortal,

to ( Read more... )

. 
...is thin.  It's damned thin.  Not that I would have it any other way, at this -- or any other -- time of the year.

I've just had lunch, on this lovely day of yellow leaves and perfect fluffy clouds, with my young friend E.  I've been something of a mentor and friend to her since she was in her early teens.  She'll turn twenty-three tomorrow.   ( Read more... )