success with bureaucracy

ethereal fog over Bellevue

my tres chic Valentine's gift from H&M, courtesy la parenti!

verrrrrry expensive metal--good thing I found $.11 to help defray their cost

semi-success with bureaucracy

have yet to procure license plates despite two treks to City Hall.  Next week.  However, finally did get my Seattle Public Library card!

poetry for Friday

Autopsy in the Form of an Elegy

by John Stone

In the chest
in the heart
was a vessel

was the pulse
was the art
was the love

was the clot
small and slow
and the scar
that could not know

the rest of you
was very nearly perfect.

glimmers of grace

A nice long walk in the crisp air to procure my favorite hot sauce, a penny found, and a cd of my Princeton graduation music in the post, a Teapot lunch with my new business partner; February is already looking upwards.

rabbit2

Yes, I did find change during the computer's hiatus, but I didn't keep careful track of the days....but all of these were found on a hike to Elliott Bay.

viva Verdi

Last night, I had the chance to see my second Verdi opera in Seattle.  Wrenching opera, beautifully done.  Also finally got the chance to dine at Chez Shea, not wrenching but equally beautifully done!

Friday

 

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."

~Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo