Monday, May 29, 2006
Memorial Day: Summer's Coming!
I just got home from making my rounds and doing some shopping and errands. It's quiet here in my part of West Seattle. Unusually quiet in Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe, where there's usually a crowd of people with babies, dogs, laptops, and conversations, meetings and business of all kinds going on. I...
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Sunday, May 28, 2006
LIFE IN A WAR ZONE
How many of us, in our cushy homes with all the conveniences, know what that's like? I struggle to pay the bills and keep a roof over my head, worry about money, but I don't live in constant fear of an incoming bombs laying waste to my city or, despite the heightened sense of alert and terrorist...
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
UNTIL THEY'RE ALL HOME SAFE AND SOUND
I started to title this post "Requiem For Soldiers", but it sounded too morbid, too much like a memorial for someone deceased, and that's not what I have in mind. I remember selling red paper poppies for the American Legion when I was a kid. My grandfather was a veteran of World War I, my uncle was...
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Memorial Weekend In Seattle
The music was perfect. In fact, Marco and his drummer were really on today. The mood varies, but he is such a good guitarist that even though he's Brazilian and that's his native music, he can play anything from blues to jazz to rock. It took a few minutes for them to warm up, it's complex chords,...
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SING A DIFFERENT TUNE, SISTER!
"I've got joy, joy, joy, down in my heart, down in my heart," says the old hymn that I learned only a couple years ago. I love that one. There's others, too, but music is a big part of my life, and what I enjoy. The old music of my teenage and twenties years, I feel will be with me always, but just...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
IT'S ALL GOOD IN THE BLOGIT HOOD
Well, I've flitted back in. This morning, I woke up with a phone call and an insatiable desire to write about it. Blogit is just too easy to resist: click and save, boom, it's done. Plus, I know it so well, too well at times, but that's another post. Here in cyberspace, it would seem there ought to...
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I FEEL LIKE CLICKING MY RUBY SLIPPERS THREE TIMES!!!
Things are happening, and that is a very good thing. I've been out of town for the last several days, so now that I am back, all of a sudden the floodgates opened up on the housing issue, starting with the phone call this morning from ML, who, as I said, has been less than helpful, but may mean well...
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Life, The Universe, And Everything
This morning, I got a phone call. I've been gone for a little while, so some business has been pushed aside, namely the writing of the letter to the housing agency requesting a reasonable accommodation to allow me to pay an extra portion of rent and stay in my current apartment. The phone call was...
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