Seattle yesterday Capital Hill old fav places.

 The Deluxe Bar and Grill , Kobo art gallery and missing Harvard Exit Theatre.  Scandinavian store in Ballard too. No Bist cake!  ( Norwegian ) 

Hair clip yes  I passed in the 47.00 fish soap on a rope but was tempted first arrival on provide ever seen. 

Passed in Shibori one of the most beautiful pieces I’ve ever seen. Only 100.00 :(

Bought a gift for Jo and it’s really a fun little gift.  Play cook set with fake ravioli

Michael and I back at Capitol Hill, we spent so many nights and days here always  I’ll add his pictures soon,, right here  

Kobo one of my fav places in Seattle. 

My city 

Trees shortage here due to flooding. Lucked into this place at Phinney if you didn’t get a tree go here  

My fav store in Ballard. 

A fox baby blanket. Wool soo cute! 

I’m a sucker for wool blankets. 

Ceramic cups Don Ashford Twisp

Most recent Ashford cup , Michael picked this one out for me. 

Pumpkins from my little neighbors, Apollo and Maverick  turban squash to be used as tureen and made into soup. We got our pumpkins per usual up in LaConner. Spent so much time there. 

                    Changed colors drying now. Hydrangeas 

One of my older Don Ashford Cups ..an older mug of his that Michael bought me. Nice isn’t it? I chose this one. We have lamps etc made there as well. 

                  Iron Teapot for matcha, bancha, genmaichai 

 

 

Gone south. Info on impact of depopulation short bites.

 I didn’t set my blog up really to do much but be a sort of journal and to learn html at the time.  I had quite a few blogs I used to learn HTML and by now I’ve forgotten what I learned but it served me at the time and it served google who was alway on my blog to invent ways for ppl to create changeable blogs 

I changed mine seasonally to see what different color arrangements etc would look like. Im an artist, a designer by nature and artist and I’m a scholar . 

Google used my blog designs, that’s ok  they bought out blogger  nothing I could do about intellectual property there.  

Sometimes we contribute to the greater good anonymously  

That’s ok  I don’t need money for everything I do  thank goodness  

Here’s a contribution I’ll journal in here today in case anyone’s showing up  other than a few old  desperate girlfriends of my ex I doubt anyone will show up .. 🤣🤣🤣

Anyway this is a short note about depopulation  in the world and its impact on us and how it’s impacting us and will impact us continually. 

The new admin coming into power doesn’t appear to be aware of these influences  but read on if you think things are amiss in the world thnx.

There is this depopulation problem in the world that most ppl are unaware of. It’s prob the real reason prices in everything have escalated.  And more jobs are filling and service is worse. China is no different in fact far worse for generational workers to replace workers from a generation that had many more children per couple. They will not have enough workers to fill their big factories. Covid deaths too have been a factor plus older generations of boomers here who guided younger people retired to save their lives during covid.  

We are in a crisis now. I slugged it out with Lowes for instance for 6 months to get doors, new doors installed. They cancelled over and over at the last minute. I’ll never shop  Lowes again. But the problem is widespread. 

Tariffs on goods will not help our country and is a lame brained idea now since we need what China gives us awhile longer while we build factories to become more self sustaining because we won’t be able to get things we need from China after the next 5-10 years due to their tyrannical control over their ppl. This is why 1 child to a couple enforced is prob going to take China down. 

Regionalism is back on the table as a necessity for many reasons. Vs globalism we have had for the past 75 years. And our new president seems clueless about it. We need Chinese goods until we can rebuild and we need to align with Neighbirs, Canada and Mexico. And we need their workers in our fields. 

I’m away on biz so also writing on my phone which is iffy always  bear with me I’m not editing . 

Here are a few photos of the gulf coast for anyone interested to see skies  the Gulf of Mexico etc  ( and places between)  

Take care  

Skies

Goose island  and live oak trees 

Gulf of Mexico sunset at Marina. 

Utah

Road trip nap 

The snake river. 

I Miss Mexico

 Having spent considerable time in Mexico since I was 3 1/2-4 years old I felt all the world was my culture of course at that age your brain is not cognitive. Rather just completing its cognitive development. But cellularly every cell held the memory of those excursions into another culture. All children need to travel out of the country in their formative years. In this way we become multicultural! 

I don’t think I’m Special when I’m in another country, or when I return,  I just belong. I belong to the world. My family was gracious that way plus I was born into the melting pot of Pittsburgh PA. I’ve lived around the country, back east, Maryland, where my great great uncles dairy farm was at Sugarloaf Mountain. 

So many sensory memories there. And also our farm in West Va.  Then Virginia Beach, I was introduced to yoga there and practiced yoga on the beach when I was 17 years old. 

I lived in Charleston too a few years. 

Illinois 

 Texas,  held captive there way too long  

Charleston was different. Spanish moss hanging from the trees, swaying in the breeze. Somehow it was akin to the southern drawl of the Deep South. 

Short stint in Japan, Northern Honshu. I love Japan. 

Washington. I’ve lived here now 34 years I think. 

And I’m wanting to live in Vancouver bad awhile still. 

I go there quite a lot but not since Covid. I’m hoping to stay a month this fall. And I have spent weeks in Portland and on the Oregon coast. But I miss Mexico. 

I spent quite a lot of time in the city ( Mexico City) and San Miguel de Allende. In the mountains and it’s a colonial town. 

Yes I miss it there. 

I’ll post some photos one day. 

But for now I’m in this Parsduse where everything in in reach within less than 4 hours drive. The Sound is by my house. The ocean is a few ferry rides and drive away. Canada, Vancouver a few hours. The snow country 4 hours. Rain forests a few hours. Volcanoes. Etc. 

I’ve spent many years backpacking around here. That was something extraordinary! 

I miss the time steeped in crawling out of tents. Almost getting eaten by bears and trying to keep raccoons out of my food. 

The joys of life. I’ll write more about them later as I reflect upon my adventures and misadventures. 

Thnx for stopping to read. 

A few photos of my beach and local stomping grounds.