Lighthouse Dispatch

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
Art
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.
  Naomi showing her latest breakdancing moves on the sidewalk. Note the little glass squares.
  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…
- 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.
  Returning from a spin around Occidental Square.
  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.
  Simone and Naomi are making sure they have all their supplies before setting off.
  We were so excited to find out that…
- 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