A place for me to gather my thoughts, and play with descriptions of the mundane. Themes include: Seattle, feminism, environmentalism, "cool thingz on teh intranets", culture, movies, people-watching and the occasional prose.
City girl who loves adventures, retired clown, wannabe healthnut, burner, harpist, a dreamer and an optimist with an appreciation for sarcastic humor and bad puns.
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The paradox of insular language
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We often develop slang or codewords to keep the others from understanding
what we’re saying. Here’s an example (thanks BK) of the lengths that some
are goi...
Community
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Community
Give Where You Live is a charitable work platform created by Two Beers
Brewing and Seattle Cider Co. to give back to our community throu...
Lina Scheynius' Celebration of the Female Body
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[image: Lina Scheynius' Celebration of the Female Body]
Clasped hands, and softly kissing lips, a bloody condom, breasts filled
with milk and mature, wrinkl...
Sharing Yourself with the World
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A lot of people are talking about how technology is bringing us closer, and
while that may be true in a number of ways, it is also making us more
detached ...
Food-Lover’s Cleanse: Day 1
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Yesterday marked the beginning of the cleanse. I decided to blog/put my
thoughts to paper to mark my journey during the two week process. Note, I
am alter...
Music Selector (is the soul reflector)
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My music review blog is finally complete! I’m pretty happy with the final
design, as well as the content of my first two posts. Since all of the end
of yea...
cycle repeat
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I'm sitting in my car under the carport, avoiding going home to the mess of
my apartment, part of me thinks if I avoid long enough then I can just go
have ...
Thailand Miracle
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I’ve felt a little lost in my own world ever since I returned from
Thailand. I wanted to write about the experience – but I still feel like
I’m in limbo. F...
Goodbye HOGC
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Dear HOGC,
My year of service is over! But, as I reflect on this past year, I choose
to reflect on the positive and concentrate on moving forward and conti...
Watertown Coffee
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I live in a neighborhood that is rich in Ethiopian restaurants-- I have
something like six to choose from in a three block radius-- but lacking in
other o...
Halloween paradigm shift
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So this email goes around my work, from the, you know, wellness team or
whatever. The same people who put up signs about taking the stairs instead
of the e...
do we have green thumbs?
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by sandra. since we’ll be home-bodies (instead of world travelers) this
summer frank and i have finally created a garden. we’ve been thinking about
this fo...
YUKI MATSURI!!!11
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So somewhere someone came up with a list of like 50 things to do/see before
you die. I assume this person has been everywhere and done everything and
that’...
"Starting All Over Again"
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*Starting All Over Again *
*by Israel Kamakawiwo Ole'*
*"Starting all over again is going to be rough *
*For us, we're going to make it*
*Starting all over a...
See you at www.theleen.com!
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I've finally made the switch from Blogger to Wordpress. I've (obviously)
been at Blogger for a very long time, but I'm excited to explore the new
world of ...
A little piece of Belgium at home...
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So for no good reason today, I started reminiscing about my previous trips
to Brugge, Belgium. I've spent a total of 3 weeks in Brugge and consider it
my p...
Colton Academy work crew!
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7-7
Our first workday!
We headed to our school, Colton Academy, that we are converting to an arts
cooperative type place that will offer classes for local ...
PucĂłn
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New look to better show off the photos at a large size (now that I don´t
have a camera anymore....good timing, hahaha)
I began my trip to the south by head...
i have no willpower.
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so my hubby tells me that martha stewart is bad and that i shouldn't buy
any of her products, but it's difficult to refuse when everything is just
so darn ...
More on LIMITS
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I'm probably doing it wrong, but I see trailing limits as a glass
half-empty strategy. You
My perspective is glass half-full. Right now my strategy is to se...
ChajarĂ, Entre RĂos
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I had one of the most incredible experiences in my life last weekend in
ChajarĂ. ChajarĂ is a small town in the province of Entre RĂos, north of
the provin...
Days 70-71: New York City (and Newark, NJ)
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A night in New York with Nathan and Janice...they deserve a better caption
than this. Jet. Lag.
A beautiful sunset over Manhattan, although there are omi...
Tikkun Olam
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Every night at dinner at HOGC, new arrivals would introduce themselves,
and those about to part would speak a little to their experience and say
their g...
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