Here’s an audio version of this post if you’d like to hear me read it. It includes a track, Savane, by Yukikaze from the album Africa. Thanks, Yukikaze, for using Creative Commons. It’s taken me about eight weeks to prepare for my trip to East Africa. I had to send my passport off for a …
How do these things happen? I don’t really know, and also, I kind of do. A long unwinding of threads, with some, “Really? But how did I get so lucky?” helps explain it, but a lot of it feels like magic. As though things I didn’t know I wanted walked right up to me and …
We had low expectations. We would meet some friends, we would look at some art. There would be a highway drive with the radio on, sunshine, scenery. We would get out of town for the day. So that is what we did. We got in the car and drove East, over Snoqualamie Pass. The roads …
In salmon run season, the beach near my house is lined with fisherman plucking dinner from Puget Sound.