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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.
Our days have been dense with ideas and adventures. Here is a place where we can contemplate them. Many of the posts will surely be about my daughters Simone and Naomi.
- Ideas
- A party about stories
- Merging collective experiences – AR from Blaise
- Sir Ken Robinson & Seth Godin on what we want “education to do”.
- Legislation Trumps Jurisprudence “Deciphering the Siberian Wolf Code”
- The Gorgeous Power of Seadragon
- The manufacturing of controversy about Evolution!
- Why WWFC or “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” Aristotle
- Are you stuffy? or The cost of Consumerism
- The importance of vulnerability
- Venture Capital Panel at Bell Harbor or “Due Diligence Live”
- You Complete Me
- Why they were saying among themselves that it cannot be done, it was done.
- Which moments do you remember?
- Mavericks
- Bringing Science to Science Fiction
- Art
- Her medium is gnarly. She works “in” plants.
- Take Your Time – Olafur Eliasson & Who’s afraid of Jasper Johns at Tony Shafrazi
- The Artist Toolbox
- A Furry Hammer met us on the sidewalk
- He said, “Nobody gets out of here alive.”
- The Artist Toolbox – NOW for Season Two!
- Welcome Naomi!
- Why are you smilin’ like a rabbit in a briarpatch?
- Terminal socializing
- MUSEE de la CHASSE et de la NATURE
- Character Corner
- They are so much fun!
- Wing Span
- Gallery
- The surface of the water at Moss Bay
- Tower
- Making a tower home
- Plaque story
- Naomi’s tower (TV)
- Pyramid story (NYT)
- Tickle Time
- What is Santa’s favorite midnight snack?
- After school the girls like to play in front of the building for a while. It’s our “porch”and on sunny days it is a fun place to hang out. Typically we get out the bikes, chalk and a few toys and hang for awhile. Today we had the giant poly pocket airplane out. We use the colored chalk to draw flowers in and around the checkerboard of glass squares. The glass squares are skylights. There is a lower level that we call the “Area Ways.” After the huge fire of 1889, Seattle was rebuilt. The city decided that the new buildings and sidewalks should be raised 10 to 40 feet higher to make space for modern plumbing and to get folks up out of the mud. This solved the waterfront neighborhood’s drainage problems. Slippery mud played an important role in the history of Pioneer Square as it was the viscosity of the street clay that made it possible to slide logs down Skid Row to the docks for exporting. The term Skid Row (now Yesler Way) originated in Seattle and was an…
Naomi showing her latest breakdancing moves on the sidewalk. Note the little glass squares.
- White blanket for the skyscrapers
- Simone’s on the cover of Life Magazine in Shanghai
- The tribe aflight or Zander, Scott, David, Eric and Stefan leap together
- Handstand anyone? Cupcake with Sprinkles?
- 115 “area ways” below the streets of Pioneer Square
- Travel
- Kidspace and The Getty Museum
- Treasure Trails Nordic Snow day!
- Are there people inside the camera?
- Pausing to enjoy the adventure of life in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. Simone and Naomi love the rush of “urbanity and motormania” that hits you as you step out the giant doors of our building. Simone has her bull and treasure chest in the basket as she circles around the Chinese Room deck. She is looking at the Muckleshoot fishing vessels that are pouring into the harbor for the opening of salmon season. The space needle is behind her. Simone has a play-date with her good friends Lucy (cowhide) and Josie (closest to us). They had a great time climbing the firemen memorial in Occidental Square. I wish our neighborhood had a kids park with a jungle gym and swings. One day it surely will. Simone is hugging Misty (Meseret) who works in the Chinese Room of the Smith Tower. The girls often visit Misty when she is working to share the adventures of their day and show her their latest gymnastic tricks.
Returning from a spin around Occidental Square.
We were so excited to find out that…Simone and Naomi are making sure they have all their supplies before setting off.
- Antigua back yard
- Annual Summer Sail
- Bang Bang at Camp Casey
- Boardman Lake
- Inspiration is for Amateurs or The Olympic Sculpture Park
- Wallingford Greenway opens with a Kidical Mass Gathering
- Pioneer Square Restaurants …plus two!
- Wiffling the afternoon away
- The BIG DIG Treasure Hunt or Simone’s 5th or Great Traditions
- A Furry Hammer met us on the sidewalk
- New series of jewelry selling at the SAM Store
- Surfing on her birthday
- Being four
- Wallingford Greenway opens with a Kidical Mass Gathering
- A Garage Sale detour enroute to the Reptile Zoo
- Jumping into the pool
- Chalking it up on the front porch
- Amber and Todd and baby Parker!
- April Fool’s Day Pranks
- Brunch with Margit, Ben, Sarah, Rob and Pascal or Hot Lava
- Creation and Re-creation
- “To play without passion is inexcusable” or Rascal and the Minnie Bergman’s Park.
- David and Naomi after work
- A half century of kids playing with Circuitry
- Brody’s brother arrives for tea party with Simone
- Arne’s egg.
- Birthday at 3700 feet
- A sheet holding confetti and balloons
- A June day
- “Please Vote!” or Clinton’s in Town
- 14 GREAT Children’s books (7 for a 3 year old and 7 for a 6 year old)
- Simone’s book club
- The first-grade book club
- Ten Favorite toys!
- What I am reading
- About
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” or How many times have you been married …to the same person?
- “Failure is Impossible”
- Claudette & Susan do Seattle
- A Citizen of the United States!
- A global beginning to the day
- A One Nation Sunday
- LOCAL CONDITIONS from the SPACE STORE
- Bouldering Card Store
- AlgoPlayground
Ms. Franklin,
Your smile holds the universe. What a beautiful life you must live, and I am so grateful you share glimpses of your blog, art, and other outlets of yourself. As much as I am fascinated with your mind, I wonder about your beautiful daughters’ perspectives as well. I don’t know if there is any point as to why I am reaching out, but I kind of think that is the point. Be inspired, react, and keep moving.
Best,
Emily Moser