From Suzan...

...a very dear connection.

Carry On!

You are more than the sum of your ancestors.

From your parents you inherited a biological legacy

and you received the invitation to be born.

To them you owe your life

and nothing more.

The rest is You.

You came here a soul fresh hot from the Heart of God,

rounded out by your own eternal mysteries.

You came here with your own innocence and wisdom,

your own capacity for compassion,

your own genius for being alive.

Over the course of your lifetime

you will be given countless opportunities

to discover and develop the sum of these gifts

to the best of your ability.

You must stay alert and be aware of these moments of Grace

when they come, sit down with them or run or fly with them

to fulfill your potential for Life and Completion.

Every day, you can be Gods dream coming true.

Your being becomes you, Dear One.

Carry on!

~ Alla Renée Bozarth ,Postcards from Paradise

Vashon Find

Pulled over to the side of the road at the address I thought an old friend might be and there, in all it's glory was this beauty...

Probably 3' high, made from a gazillion needles that had fallen to the ground. I wonder if the ants and the trees had a deal. And the life! There was no way to capture the magnificence of all this without a movie. If you make it bigger (right hand corner thingy) it's even more.

Home Sweet Home

Jean-Baptiste Monge. Another Etsy find.

Home. Definitely where the heart is.

7,342

Steps I've taken today. That's 3.7 miles and 470 calories. But who's counting. o.k. I am but really only care about the steps. That was over half my goal for the day and it's only noon!!

Journey to Hardwick's. Who knew I would need a heavy brass hammer. hmmm. I probably should have known but I was "speed" reading. Luckily there are delightful tutorial videos on youtube about any number of things. Disk cutting is one of them.

And then there is the stone collecting. A man walking his adorable terrier butch dog asked me how come I was carrying the rock. "Makes my walk more productive, don't you think?"

Roof Top Garden seen along the way. Really close to the U-District construction, which actually is about 60% of the U-District at this point, and I just appreciated the effort here.

Life Happens

Will go to Vashon on Thursday. Today I was obsessed with acquiring a metal disc cutter, some dapping tools, and a pair of tweezers with cupped ends. Actually got 2 of those. Different sizes. Took a long time because the traffic is beastly and it's 88° out there. Digression halt. Someday there will be handmade beads made from tin containers like those used for cookies, or lunch boxes, or love notes. This afternoon, though, I'm beginning a movie called "The Only Lovers Left Alive". Jarmucsh film, so of course it's crazed, but on top of that it's about Vampires and beyond even that! Tilda Swinton is in it. I'm just saying. I hope it's as good as I hope it will be. That's how we hope, we the Army of the Fantasy Hopefuls.

The camera work creates these stills that look like sepia prints and black and white photos. They are delicious in form, sensuality,

Another Day, Another Road Trip

Today is Vashon. There's land there but I'm not sure there's always water. There is 4 acres with a yurt. It's gorgeous. We'll see. In the meantime, or maybe the kindtime, here's some Patty.

Sense of Place

Sense of Place by Amanda Shelsher

Corny

The last of the cobs. Is that beautiful or what? The way climate change is going here in the Northwest I should be able to grow more than 4 ears pretty soon.  At least there is one good thing about that. Heh, maybe I'll eat corn by then. (I set some keys by the corn for size relationship)

Also got a bunch of potatoes and more cukes, yum, but failed to take pics. Took everything over to the house and Simon, Peter, and I ate cucumbers on the deck. Sweet.