06-29-20

No walk with Mom, book club instead, so we did a long walk.  The little waterfall park in Pioneer Sqaure was still open.

06-26-20

Cool mural in Pioneer Square.

06-25-20

Seeing more tourists at the market.  Still a quiet place to walk in the evening.

06-24-20

Walking in different places, seeing different art.

06-23-20

Weird plywood art at Nordstrom.

06-22-20

Lake Union walk with Mom this evening.

06-21-20

Happy Fathers Day from UW campus!  

06-20-20

Anastasia and Jacob put an offer on this "Remodelled craftsman" with basement ADU today.  Excited for them!

06-19-20

Met friends at Flatstick Pub for dinner and mini golf.  Bit by bit, reclaiming small pieces of in person community.

06-17-20

When it was time to do yoga this evening I put on jammie pants instead of yoga pants, oops.  Resting mroe than moving seems to be my speed this week.  But I keep pushing oward.

06-16-20

Look at the clouds this morning!  So pretty!

06-14-20

Back up to Capital Hill tonight.  CHAZ has been renamed to CHOP.  Capital Hill - autonomous zone or occupied protest.

George Floyd was the spark, dying on May 25^th in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

But look at all the fatal shootings of blacks by the police since then:

Caine van Pelt – June 12 – Indiana

Rayshard Brooks – June 12 – Atlanta, GA

Michael Thomas – June 11 – Lancaster, CA

Lewis Ruffin – June 11 – Florida

Kamal Flowers – June 6 – New York

Tyquarn Graves – June 2 – New York

David McAtee – June 1 – Kentucky

Derrick Thompson – May 30 – Florida

Jarvis Sullivan – May 29 – Florida

Momadou Lamin Sisay – May 29 – Georgia

Ruben Smith – May 28 – Arkansas

Modesto Reyes – May 27 – Louisiana

Tony McDade – May 27 – Florida

Dion Johnson – May 25 – Arizona

06-13-20

It's interesting to be back in Longview for the weekend.  Some things ahve changed, a lot has stayed the same.  COVID has had some impact, but not nearly as drastic as Seattle.  I joked that this was the only person wearing a mask.

06-12-20

Hello Longview!

Our first time laying our eyes on the two duplexes we bought in the Highlands back in January.

06-11-20

Happy graduation Xander!

Some restuarants just re-opened for sit down downtown, so we thought we could celebrate with a meal.  We went to MBar in South Lake Union.

06-09-20

At work we share photos of meals with each other.  CHicken, zucchini, and some Bitchin' sauce, yum!

06-07-20

Plenty of plywood downtown, a new round of murals, focusing on racial justice.

Charleena Lyles is a name well known to us.

Charleena lived and died at Brettler Family Place, one of Solid Ground’s low income buildings at Sand Point.  She was 30, petite, pregnant. She had issues with domestic violence and mental health and had been flagged as potentially dangerous.  She called the police about a suspected burglary.  She had a knife, the police were missing their taser, they shot her 7 times in front of her four children in 2017.

06-06-20

Went for a walk and wandered into a protest.  This time over by Amazon and the downtown precinct.

06-05-20

Black Lives Matter is the focus of the national conversation right now.  And those who push back that All Lives Matter are out of touch.

Anti-black racism is hardwired into America's DNA, and it touches Black lives every single day—from cop killings to predatory lending to poorly-funded schools. To say ‘Black lives matter’ acknowledges that in many ways we never did—not to suggest that anyone else matters any less.

It doesn't mean that only black lives matter.  It doesn't mean that black lives are superior.  It is merely recognizing that we are not currently similarly situated and it needs focus.

06-04-20

And with peaceful protesting Wednesday night, there is a truce and the tension in the city melts away.  So, we were able to find shwarma at an open eatery and we enjoyed an early dinner on the roof.

06-03-20

It's difficult to capture the image of the entire city boarded up with plywood.  There is a big sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop, but as the protesters move up to Capital Hill and out to other areas, downtown is starting to breathe a little easier.

06-02-20

As fear of more destruction and looting continue, there are pleas for both justice and to be passed over for any second round of targetted retail damage.

06-01-20

Happy June!

Mom and I walked along Lake Union today, looking at the houseboats.

I forgot to take photos, but clicked this on my route home.  We've seen this a few times recently.  It is literally just the shell of the old Firestone Tire building.  Will be interesting to see how they use the facade for something new.