So, the Big Changes.....

I did find what I was looking for - and more - at the Soulcraft Intensive experience at Breitenbush Hot Springs, in beautiful, beautiful Oregon ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was feted to a long, luxurious trip to the Seattle urban spa and health facility, Banya 5. Thank you, Luna! (students love 2 for 1 coupons ( Read more... )

It was a gorgeous, sunny winter day, so I made a trip to the mountains, indulging my need for reconnection with the planet ( Read more... )

I won't make it to the Ballard Farmer's Market today for produce, which is just as well because I tend to run into 100 people that I know and have to stop and talk. It's as much a social as a shopping event. I'm becoming more comfortable with it, and I sometimes even look forward to that aspect (oh, the travails of an introvert), but I have no ( Read more... )

After first visiting this special, wild part of the world, I swore to myself that the day they'd try to take chainsaws into the Olympic National Park would be the day I quit my job and climbed a tree, a la Julia Butterfly Hill ( Read more... )

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter ( Read more... )

Observations on Twin PeaksMania®, "Kaj, après ski" variety
As recorded by Bill D., on this day December 17, 2005

1. Drive to North Bend, Wash.


2. Huddle at the intersection, hands around yourself


3. Buy a considerable number of sweet things at bakery


4. Travel to Twin Peaks Cafe


5. Sit, anticipate, smile, nod and order a "damn fine cup of coffee"

I did not know this, but Alpine Hut on 15th Ave W. rents out nordic (cross-country) skis, as well as alpine skis. I know that Seattle REI does, as well. We're going skiing tomorrow at one of the SnoParks on the I-90 corridor.

NORDIC SKI RENTAL

REI - Seattlehttp://www.rei. ( Read more... )

So, we didn't end up going to Goldmyer Hot Springs.... We went to Twede's Cafe (aka the Mar-T Cafe, aka Twin Peaks Cafe) in North Bend for a quick, delicious bite before hitting the trails, and the rain, as predicted, started to fall. Heavily. So, instead of going to sit in the car at some trailhead along the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, we ( Read more... )