Keeping Up

This Is A Dream Enjoy It

This Is A Dream Enjoy It.
Beneath The Paving Stones Lies The Beach.

Tacoma : The Vintage

Tacoma : The Glass

One From Packer

‘ There were things I’d seen in him that perhaps no one else had ever seen or noticed – wouldn’t those things disappear along with my apprehension of them? Because we were caretakers of each other’s habits and expressions, weren’t we, witnesses who didn’t just see but who gave existance? Our coming apart would erase all those tiny moments and gestures and looks from everywhere but our separate memories, until even there our history would begin to fade. ’
– Ann Packer, The Dive from Claussen’s Pier

September in Seattle

Headed downtown to check out the new H & M and to see Vicky Christina Barcelona with T.

Huckleberries

Unfunk Tunes

Chemicals Collide  :  Cloud Cult
Keep The Car Running  :  Arcade Fire
Ragged Wood  :  Fleet Foxes
Oxford Comma  :  Vampire Weekend
Paris 2004  :  Peter Bjorn
Another Sunny Day  :  Belle and Sebastian
Mushaboom  :  Feist
Weed Party  :  Band of Horses
California Stars  :  Billy Bragg and Wilco
M79  :  Vampire Weekend
Concrete Bed  :  Nada Surf
Wet Dog Afternoon  :  Page France
People As Places As People  :  Modest Mouse
White Winter Hymnal  :  Fleet Foxes
Pretty Voice  :  Cloud Cult
Wake Up  :  Ditty Bops

Elliot Bay Book Company

Saturday morning I had an appointment in Pioneer Square, less than a block from the Elliot Bay Book Company. Ever lured into bookstores, I walked down to look for a couple specific books and ended up spending more than an hour and a half. Wandering the isles of a good bookstore is one of the most pleasurable activities of which I can think. Filled with possibility. So much to learn. So many stories. It allows moments away from myself. Caught up in the knowledge held by so many, fictional characters leading fictional lives, and real people living extraordinary lives.

And, of course, I rarely leave a bookstore empty handed. Saturday:

Run by Ann Patchette.

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson.

The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins.

Crisp

A domestic weekend. Baking a Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp. Simmering Potato Leak Soup. Doing Laundry. And tonight, Sewing. Finally.

Last Bits of Summer

Brown Linen Pants