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1.26.2026 index of delight
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Memory is an Unreliable Narrator, Print Your Photos
Stashed away in shoeboxes since the dawn of digital, the photos were a slideshow I was tentative to unreel.
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Every year, rather than forward thinking resolutions, I find myself looking at the past, the lost, and the forgotten.
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Celebrate the Turning of the Wheel
Here on the eve of the biggest dark, it would be so easy to draw in and succumb to despair. Thankfully light is coming on the other side of the Winter…
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In December 2020, a generous Seattle homeowner transformed a concrete retaining wall along the sidewalk into a whimsical, remarkably detailed…
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Note the woodsy scent of the tiny noble fir in the corner of the living room, the resinous perfume of juniper limbs loaded with berries on the mantle…
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