July 27

 

 

WE DID IT!!! The Seafair Torchlight Run was conquered with a wonderful day, a wonderful team, a wonderful success.

 

Mostly I was dying with excitment at the fact that they closed down 99 and we got to run helter-skelter along the highway with the Sound to our left and the city to our right. Right along with 40,000 runners. It was specacular.

 

This is us. The champions.

 

July 25

 

 

Apparently sailboats race around the Puget Sound every Thursday. Who knew? Markus's friend and coworker Geoff owns one of these very boats and was good enough to invite us along. Sailboat racing is a rare breed of competion...if you're in the lead you get to take home a trophy and a goodly amount of boatman prestige. If you're trailing everyone else by a good fathom or two, you get the best view of a hundred billowy sails meandering into the sunset. Clearly a win-win deal.

 

We belonged to the trailing-with-a-view cohort and it was lovely. Hot dogs and beer to follow. Ahoy!

 

 

 

July 19

Everybody in Seattle is currently on a sailboat apparently.

July 11

 

Wrapped up in blankets and aided by a bag of gummy bears, Sarah, Michael, Jenni, and I settled down in a large field in Magnison Park to watch Moonrise Kingdom on a giant ballooning screen with hundreds of other Seattleites. It was cold, cozy, and kind of delicious. I can't wait for more!

 

To get a whole list of movies and locations, click here.

July 1

 

And so the heat wave continues.

 

Happy 1st of July sun lovers!

 

 

(Even jogging gets more fun when it's warm and golden out.)

June 29

This heat wave is the best.

 

(90's mellow into beautiful warm evenings, you see.)

June 28

 

*Photos by Danni Reaves

Today was the grand culmination of a million birthdays. And by a million I mean four. Alisa, Chris, Danni, and I all embraced our new years amid boisterous good cheer (see above photo) and sunshine. We had a Mexican feast and more people than we anticipated and more heat than Seattle ever dreamed possible (all good things) so we loaded up plates and sprawled out on the grass outside to eat, drink, and make merry.

 

Then we sauntered, en mass, over to gasworks for some Frisbee and for some burning of the energy and to watch the sun go down over a warm, sleepy Seattle.

 

 

 

June 21

Well, hello Summer, welcome.

 

Please, don those shades, spread out your towel, pour yourself a tall glass of cool beverage, and stay a while.

You are great company (we love your passion spirit these days).

June 6

 

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea       

 

- E. E. Cummings

 

 

* * *

 

 

(We went sailing today, it was perfect)

June 1

 

Today was a choose-your-own-adventure day wherein Markus and I chose to go on a bike ride downtown to see where the spirit led. Most of the time, when left to it's own devices, the spirit does a good job.

 

Snacks and coffee on the pier, a stroll through Pike, a leisurely cycle through the waterfront park...it was all a very pleasant beginning to June.

 

 

 

May 31

(Work today looked like this.)

 

Happy Friday - sleep, drink, be merry!

May 22

 

This is what outside feels like today.

December in May.

 

But it's kind of cozy, you know? I made hot chocolate.

May 6

And it's back to Seattle with it's fantastic sky line and lakes and sailboats. It was nice to be gone, but it's always nice to come back to our beautiful city. Work could stay on hold for a few more days though - at least until this sun decides to take off again.

April 15

Well here we are, Ballard. Thanks for being great and giving us good bars and my gym and pretty buildings.

 

* * *

 

An Ode to a Beautiful City

 

Crafty hands and loving hearts
extract beauty of stones
and earth. The magic of
human ingenuity competes
with the Divine Prowess
to create.
No, no. Isn’t it the
Best Compliment for the
Divine Hand. A micro organism
in this limitless cosmic space
can even feign the Divine.
O’ We the homosapiens are a mean
lot, of all the mess we make
a few things we do get right.
No mean feat.

 

- Sadhguru

March 25

Hi Seattle, we're back, nice to see you too!

March 16



 

My little brother was here again this week. He is such a gem and I love him dearly. And also he's the funniest man I know. We hiked around discover park and had popcorn shrimp at fisherman's terminal and did a lot of quality sibling things...mostly all in a thick Sri Lankan accent which caused raucus laughter from mostly just us. #comebacksoon

February 11

Hello pretty city, it's good to be back.

It was good to be gone a while,

but it is equally good to be welcomed home by your gray and blue skyline.

You are moody these days, but this is how I love you best - with your brooding lows and sunny highs.

Thank you for understanding it's Monday.