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The virtuous deception | Just Wondering
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Ferreting out a viable rhythm for an urban life. Some you win (with apologies to James). May 5, 2015. I will GET loud! 8212; Robert Downey Jr. channeling Alfre Woodard or a killdeer in. Killdeer at Lake Sammamish State Park. Baby killdeers disguised as pebbles. A few yards away, the bird did this strange, beautiful thing: she put her wings out partway, scraped her belly on the ground and lowered her tailfeathers so that the vivid brown color of her inner feathers could be seen. She put her tail at an...
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Electric locomotive blood | Just Wondering
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Ferreting out a viable rhythm for an urban life. January 19, 2015. Finally, she’s just plain sad that no one wants to cherish these things. What will become of them — these platters and trivets and teacups and serving bowls and creamers that she has lovingly safeguarded against the ravages of time, pilferage, breakage? Her granddaughters, the ones close by here, are starting their own families now but for various reasons they don’t clamour for these objects. And I don’t want it anymore. Ultimately does n...
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When music condenses | Just Wondering
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Ferreting out a viable rhythm for an urban life. Best Summer. Ever. – Episode 15: Rainier redux. December 25, 2014. 8220;The towers are called radio towers,” I said. “You’ve seen them on top of Queen Anne. Those three really tall red and white towers with the blinking red lights on the top? Those are radio towers sending out the music we hear.”. Millie is like Mara was at that age — she expressed no further interest in the topic. She was done with it, I thought, even before I finished talking. This is ho...
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Birdbrain | Just Wondering
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Ferreting out a viable rhythm for an urban life. December 30, 2014. To observe or identify wild birds in their habitats”. I’ve started to bird. That is, I’m becoming something of a birder. I strode out at lunchtime yesterday with my new given-to-me-by-my-wife-for-Christmas 10x Nikon binoculars in search of Grady, a great blue heron of my acquaintance who hangs out in the swampy bits of the state park across the street from where I work (lucky me, yeah? Grady a week or so ago. Some years ago this same bee...