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- Pollination and Propagation – A Painting Series
- Windows that open
- Are there people inside the camera?
- Gallery
- What are you reading?
- Creation and Re-creation
- Favorite Restaurants
- MUSEE de la CHASSE et de la NATURE
- Handstand anyone? Cupcake with Sprinkles?
- Wallingford Greenway opens with a Kidical Mass Gathering
- A June day
- Surfing on her birthday
- Amber and Todd and baby Parker!
- April Fool’s Day Pranks
- Jumping into the pool
- Being four
- The new series of jewelry is selling at the SAM Store
- Howling the night away
- White blanket for the skyscrapers
- Making Friends with Every Gecko in Belize
- We were looking for Santas and found Do Ho Suh’s Gate!
- Living past 100… actively
- Homework in the Globe
- One way to work with fractions.
- Tickle Time
- Have you ever had to walk uphill all night to get to a bunny in trouble?
- Sunny reading
- “To play without passion is inexcusable” or Rascal and the Minnie Bergman’s Park.
- Inspiration is for Amateurs or The Olympic Sculpture Park
- When was the last time you hung out under the surface?
- Sleeping model
- Sand and water
- Being Plumb
- Three Plumb earrings
- Naomi at Catherine and Mike’s wedding
- The dream just floats up into her head.
- Two sisters outfit their digs and enjoy the design mishaps
- Chocolate Cake
- Jeanne gives us a gardening tip and Elinor visits.
- Bang Bang at Camp Casey
- The first-grade book club
- Chalking it up on the front porch
- He said, “Nobody gets out of here alive.”
- Crazy hair day at Evergreen
- Naomi’s party
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” or How many times have you been married …to the same person?
- A Furry Hammer met us on the sidewalk. Hello Nick Cave!
- Did your school teach insatiable desire, focus and the art of persuasion? Sir Ken Robinson & Seth Godin pipe in on what we should and should not be teaching.
- Naomi’s birthday is just around the corner.
- Selling pigs off a bike
- Simone’s book club
- The importance of vulnerability
- Easter 2011
- The Artist Toolbox – NOW for Season Two!
- Why they were saying among themselves that it cannot be done, it was done.
- The Artist Toolbox
- Carrying the world on your shoulders?
- IndieFlix
- The floating bakery
- Which moments do you remember?
- Naomi tells the story of Rosa Parks
- Half the Sky is both a brutal awakening and an unmistakable call to action. -Melinda Gates
- Bringing Science to Science Fiction
- A half century of kids playing with Circuitry
- Simone’s take on Dolphins
- How to have a lovely birthday.
- Are you stuffy? or The cost of Consumerism
- A sheet holding confetti and balloons
- Simone’s on the cover of Life Magazine in Shanghai
- They are so much fun!
- Airport Santa
- What is Santa’s favorite midnight snack?
- A party about stories
- Santa stopped by the tower.
- Round and round
- Ten Favorite toys!
- 14 GREAT Children’s books (7 for a 3 year old and 7 for a 6 year old)
- Violin
- Storytelling gathering for the holidays
- Kevin is making it safe to Gulp it down
- Massive art involving tens of thousands of individuals and best seen, in many cases, from outer space.
- Snow day or Ahhh L-I-F-E
- Are you honing in on the virtues or letting them slide? Honestly?
- "Failure is Impossible"
- A global beginning to the day
- Naomi’s KOMO tour of the Tower or “What was on the cutting room floor?”
- Art is never chaste.
- 115 "area ways" below the streets of Pioneer Square
- Hillary does Pier 30
- First time
- "Please Vote!" or Clinton’s in Town
- Mieraye, Obama and Murray or the President comes to town.
- Java with Senator Patty Murray and President Obama
- Making a Home in a Pyramid, 462 Feet Above Seattle
- Ending nuclear proliferation
- Making body parts and firing madly!
- Brunch with Margit, Ben, Sarah, Rob and Pascal or Hot Lava
- Simone’s laptop
- Why are you smilin’ like a rabbit in a briarpatch?
- You’re just jealous cause the voices only talk to me or "Pumpkin Head"
- A One Nation Sunday
- Instead of Driver’s Education, Children attend Biker’s Education
- Hot Lava
- Naomi at work
- Venture Capital Panel at Bell Harbor or "Due Diligence Live"
- Naomi & Annabel on their First Day at Evergreen School
- Claudette & Susan do Seattle
- Boogie All Day Long
- Monica, David, Sophie & Annabel come over.
- Seattle Center …our extended yard…
- Baby Pia
- Enjoy KT Niehoff’s “Relatively Real” from 2005
- wing span
- rock n roll camp
- Deluged in Seattle
- A Garage Sale detour enroute to the Reptile Zoo
- Occidental Market
- Ballard Commons
- Mama Mia
- Circumnavigating 100 feet from home court
- Limb to Limb
- The surface of the water at Moss Bay
- On Thursday We Were A Circus
- Zombie Parade or The sum was far greater than its parts
- Geocaching or There was Shakespeare at the Troll
- And besides, they are DISTINCT!
- How we ended up in the Smith Tower lighthouse?
- Birthday at 3700 feet
- There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. -Winston Churchill
- Greenlake ships.
- Abbey Road
- Leaping McKinley
- Arne’s egg.
- Mazama Migration 2010
- PHOTO FRIDAY
- Grandma Elinor and Naomi
- Chinese Carving on the Bedroom door
- Event at Perkins Coie
- Heating Up
- Wiffling the afternoon away
- Josie Schembre channeling Josephine Baker & Isadora Duncan
- Nomadic kids
- Antigua back yard
- Pioneer schmoozing
- Merging collective experiences – AR from Blaise
- Daily Rituals or Off to School
- Dinner with the Strains across the Square
- Yelling at the TV
- Holiday 2009 or slinky on the hotel stairs
- Sweet and HORRIFYING! or A Whirling Deverish Halloween
- Elinor and Naomi enjoying the day.
- Pausing at Rhoad’s End
- Rhoads’ catch
- Gritty Oasis in Seattle or Beaching in Seattle
- Ferry on over to Vashon Island
- Knighted by chivalrous iron-clad warriors in Gasworks Park
- Therese and Dale and Serra
- The BIG DIG Treasure Hunt or Simone’s 5th or Great Traditions
- Naomi and paint
- Santa stopped by the tower a week early
- Jewel in the Oval Office (Sally Jewel)
- Boardman Lake
- Boardman Lake
- Annual Summer Sail
- Sailing
- Mazama hike with Ben and Margit and Naomi
- Brody’s brother arrives for tea party with Simone
- Her medium is gnarly. She works “in” plants.
- Take Your Time – Olafur Eliasson & Who’s afraid of Jasper Johns at Tony Shafrazi
- Fishing at twin ponds on crazy hair day at Evergreen School
- Home Depot or Cart Etiquette
- Susan Robb does the Lawrimore Project
- You Complete Me
- The manufacturing of controversy about Evolution!
- David and Naomi after work
- Legislation Trumps Jurisprudence “Deciphering the Siberian Wolf Code”
- The tribe aflight or Zander, Scott, David, Eric and Stefan leap together
- Double-wide jaunt through urban landscape
- Treasure Trails Nordic Snow day!
- Kidspace and The Getty Museum
- Simone and Naomi concerto
- Vitamin D
- Slithering or Rhoads’ End or Ahoy Mateys! or Sunset Boggie
- The Gorgeous Power of Seadragon
- Margit and Naomi meet
- Welcome Naomi!
- Terminal socializing
- Jessica, Blaine, Lucinda and Arno come over for dinner
- A Citizen of the United States!
- Wilfred and Elinor visit us in Sun Valley
- Simone sounds out
- Knocked up and low on carabiners or Enjoying Zion
- Saying I do.
Author Archives: petra
Chalking it up on the front porch
A sunny day came along and we just couldn’t stay couped up inside. The girls wanted to “doll up” our dreary front porch, also known as the sidewalk on Second Ave between James and Yesler. Naomi and Simone decide to … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Naomi, Simone, Smith Tower
Tagged chalk, Family, Naomi, Simone, The Arts
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He said, “Nobody gets out of here alive.”
Was there a moment in your life that calibrated you for everything after it? This was one of mine. The summer after high school, I enrolled in a choreography workshop at Harvard University. Bill T Jones, Arnie Zane, and Lucinda … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Family, Mavericks, The Arts
Tagged Arnie Zane, Bill T Jones, choreography, Culture, dance camp, Harvard University, Lucinda Childs, Petra, The Arts
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Crazy hair day at Evergreen
Posted in Education, Family, Friends, Naomi, School, Simone
Tagged Crazy Hair Day, events, Evergreen School, Family, friends, Simone
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Naomi’s party
We made lanterns at Naomi’s birthday party. Pirate Naomi attacked the bull pinata with everything she had. And Annabel swung on the tire horse. Until Eli finally broke the pinata open and let the toys out. The party guests hanging … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Family, Friends, Gatherings, Naomi
Tagged birthday, Family, friends, gatherings, Naomi, party
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“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” or How many times have you been married …to the same person?
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” -Barbara De Angelis —————- Don’t you think re-reading vows and being part of a raucous party makes sense. Proposing again? Better skip that part. Chances are, at … Continue reading
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A Furry Hammer met us on the sidewalk. Hello Nick Cave!
It seemed like a long time since we’d enjoyed the First Thursday art walk in our Pioneer Square neighborhood. So, off we went to Occidental Square, where we checked in on Davidson Gallery and then over to the Lawrimore … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, The Arts
Tagged Art Walk. the arts, Culture, Davidson Gallery, Gail Gibson, Greg Kucera, Lawrimore Project, Occidental Square
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Did your school teach insatiable desire, focus and the art of persuasion? Sir Ken Robinson & Seth Godin pipe in on what we should and should not be teaching.
Sir Ken Robinson believes that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and creating dysfunctional humans. The RSA animators are incredible! Thanks to Maggie Neilson, who posted the story on Facebook. Seth Godin believes that high schools … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Friends
Tagged Culture, Education, Evergreen School, friends, high school, Ken Robinson, Maggie Neilson, RSA, Seth Goin
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Naomi’s birthday is just around the corner.
Naomi will be four years old on May 16th. I couldn’t love her more. What a wonderful being she is! Enjoy.
Selling pigs off a bike
These roasted pigs are barely tied on. There is no hopping curbs or taking the steep short cut for this cyclist. The bike itself is the vendor stand at the market. If the pig doesn’t sell outright (usually they do) … Continue reading
Simone’s book club
The first graders at Evergreen decided to launch a book club. Boys and girls gathered to talk about Kate DiCamillo’s Because of Winn Dixie. Everyone loved this book. Next we read two books from Jim Benton’s “Franny K Stein” series, … Continue reading
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Tagged book club, books, Education, Evergreen School, Family, Franny K Stein, Simone
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Easter 2011
We started the day coloring eggs. We heard there was a bunny parade and ran over to Occidental to see. Naomi left directions for the Easter bunny. Hopefully he will come by again. The parade arrived bringing a WOLF, two … Continue reading
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Why they were saying among themselves that it cannot be done, it was done.
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” – Helen Keller Simone is working on a report about Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller. Though Helen … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Sullivan, Culture, Education, Family, Helen Keller, Mavericks, Simone, The Arts
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The Artist Toolbox
I am having so much fun! I’m working on the television series, “The Artist Toolbox.” To find out when it is playing in your area, put your zip code in here:
Posted in Mavericks, The Arts
Tagged entertainment, Petra, The Artist Toolbox, The Arts, tv show
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Carrying the world on your shoulders?
I love this image. Books. Have you ever fallen into a book? I sometimes carry pieces of them around in my head so woven into the brain that I have a hard time distinguishing what is actual and what was … Continue reading
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Tagged books, choreography, Dance, Don Quixote, KT Niehoff, Petra, Seattle Opera, The Arts, Your cannon
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IndieFlix
My friend Scilla Andreen is on The Film School board with me. She runs a company she started with Carlo Scandiuzzi called IndieFlixs. You can find great independent films on her website as well as a party game where everyone … Continue reading
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Tagged friends, independent films, IndieFlixs, Oscar party, Petra, Scilla Andreen, The Arts, The Film School, The lost thing, Tom Skeritt
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The floating bakery
We’ve been talking about creating a floating bakery on Lake Union. “Maybe we can build it on top of two canoes,” Simone suggests. “We’d like to it move about Lake Union and Lake Washington, ” the girls explain, “and we’ll need a place … Continue reading
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