Well it’s true, best to be flexible because things change a lot.

            Yumiko my Japanese house mate at the farm. One of. 5! 

         Yumiko and Daisy me.  Below Me and grandma and Grandpap

                 Below Daisy 

   Mike and Florence, Gus, Valentine, and me Max taking     photo 

              Friends from France 

            Puddha

              Daisy and school friend in Snohomish

                      My sweet neighbors. Ashley. Ivan below. Apollo

And Little Maverick

                  Recent collage. 

 I won’t go into holidays and my birthday is Inauguration Day and I’m not looking forward to this crazy inaugural celebration. 

I’m still waiting for a miracle.  Well craziness repeats itself for some reason. 

The division between people now is so vast. Everyone’s gone crazy. Forgetting the thing one should never forget. 

United we stand, divided we fall. 

It really amazes me how people who think they’re intelligent fall into the quagmire of supporting the division. We caused this to happen by having a certain name on our tongues constantly. 

Well, I didn’t I still am unwilling to put that much into this fiasco. I use one letter preceded by the world little. 

Sometimes just the one smal case letter t. 

It’s enough. 

I’m respectful usually but I have my ways to keep from falling into the trap others have causing the re election. 

Now it’s up to miraculous hands, energy, dimensions. If only!!  

A sad day…

       Daisy and pelicans 

     Heron and other birds nest in the liberals by the bay. 

 Leaving the Gulf and Daisy today. 

Celebrated her birthday briefly. 

Early 

It’s in 3 days 

I kissed her goodbye and we hugged. On her porch. 

I struggle now to remember every few minutes we had then. 

And while I was there. 

I came down with something right after I arrived here and didn’t want to give it to her. Don’t know what it was mostly congestion and cough. Headache. Fever. Like a not so bad flu but never knew where it was going. It kept on  ..no energy  

I wish she would come live with me. 

I really do. 

Back at the room packing I lie down awhile reflecting …  

My feelings were well, the realization I don’t know if and when I’ll see her or family again  

My lip trembled as I recall my Grandmas sullen mood change when we were leaving a visit with her  

Now I’m sure it was that same dreaded lack of optimism I feel now  

What if.. 

please when you’re a young person, understand, this happens  

In a way I don’t want to go  but I can’t stay here  I don’t like it here at all  

I don’t like the eternal winds  the sand clogged sky  

The food, 

The flat everything  

It was never my home  

I’m from the hilly parts, the mountains of Appalachia  

Also the Cascades and Olympics where I moved in 92  

I loved Washington and should have kept her there with me  but do I belong anywhere? I’ve paused too long I suppose. It’s not the first time.  

But I kept getting kind of blown over in ways  I couldn’t buy a home.

 I should have Been able to buy but prices were high  

And someone pulled the rug out from my feet too often  

Anyway she wanted to go elsewhere  so I let her,..  wrong move I think  

Now the gulf is her home and she’s 41 in 3 days  I’m too old to count  

Well it feels that way with this topsy turvy world ! 

With t leading the country astray  

I wag my tongue about him enough  

I’ll spare this post  I don’t use its name  

Everyone else keeps his name on their tongue 24/7  I’ve refused from the get go  

If they’d given ‘it’ the slip he’d have dried up long ago  

A danger to society and everything we know as life  

I’m not going to get started here  

Anyway she could start a new life in WA again  but I understand her reluctance. This land was his land not mine. 

And her family is, me.  

I moved there when I was in my early 40’s  

It was different than now, but everything is  

Mountains, fast running rivers, snowy peaks, temperate rain forests  but it nearly killed ne she was gone  

I had a really rough time  

And now I feel I don’t know, empty there  here, everywhere  

I didn’t want her to leave I didn’t want leave today  

How to reconcile this? 

Sad day  

I have very few pics  

Pics from Utah

 

Been back to Washington about 8-9 days now.

Sunsets, fog, home in WA.

 

Everett Marina Everett WA

 

Snow Snow Snow