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Against a tide

July 7, 2010

This evening we talked of things we did as kids. Something in the conversation got me to remembering a time when I was about eight and my family was out on Puget Sound in our old Chris-Craft cabin cruiser for one of our weekend wanderings through the waterways. We’d stopped at some little cove and [...]

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Just say, “Yes” to Seattle Erotic Art Festival

April 24, 2010

During my Mondo Beyondo work last month, one day the lesson was about saying, Yes. Part of the premise was about not seeing ourselves the same old way, and thereby releasing self-imposed restrictions on the possibilities for our lives. Luckily, that was the same day that I was approached to create a wall ornamentation at [...]

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The Old Days – theSeattleBlog.com

April 10, 2010

I did it! In a moment of “what the hell” I moved my blog posts from my first blog over here to Ordinary Beauty, which is (and has been for awhile) my main blog. This required making two moves on my server which can mysteriously fail and cause things to implode, so I am giving [...]

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There’s a New Girl in Town

March 2, 2010

Pinball is in my DNA. My father was a gangsta pinpall player, back in the days when pinball machines paid out cash winnings. He’d cheat, frankly, on top of being an ace player, and he’d travel from one small Montana town to another playing pinball, and getting running out of town now and again. Later, [...]

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puddle. of. bliss.

December 19, 2009
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Winning NaNoWriMo

November 30, 2009

Sitting here still slightly stunned to have reached the 50K mark, but feeling excited, proud, enthused, and definitely doing many mental happy dances. NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month, an event officially held in November each year, and the goal of which is for each participant to write 50,000 words between midnight October [...]

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I went to test drive a Tesla and all I got was this lousy stamp

November 13, 2009

Okay, so I did not really, truly expect to drive a Tesla tonight–although that would have been hot. Plus, it’s not really a lousy stamp, I actually quite like the design. We begin the evening with the fact that my datebook said things started at 7–which made for me arriving at about 7:30–except the party [...]

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So this is what 53 looks like

September 14, 2009

When I was 14 years old I had a notion that I would not live to be older than 21. I don’t know why I believed this, but it seemed real, seemed solid and true. Wherever do we get our ideas about life, and how our life will be, and who we will become? In [...]

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Identifying the roots of dismay and discontent

August 28, 2009

I have been feeling a lack of happiness for awhile. The very noticing of this is of course an essential first-step towards contending with it. Another vital step is moving from blaming the lack of happiness on an external something or other and moving onward to explore what it is about me that is amiss. [...]

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Magnolia Ace Hardware – great service

August 9, 2009

Yesterday we decided a new, improved wheelbarrow was something we needed. This decision followed on the heels of having 3 yards of gravel and another yard of Groco dumped in our yard–all of which would need to be toted to other parts of the garden. And then we worked on building a rain garden, using [...]

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