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when the rain taps at the window

"My gripe is not with the lovers of the truth but with the truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie." -Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale


Here in Seattle, we heard quite a bit of rain tapping at the window... With flood warnings in effect I was able to take a half day off of work and spend the morning with my mom and dad.

Neruda

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

The night wind revolves in the sky.

To hear the immense night,

still more immense without her.

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

The saddest lines about her.

-Pablo Neruda

New Wife

New Husband

Perfection

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body is stripped down to its nakedness. -Antione de St. Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars

Caught

I think my brother-in-law/room-mate explains it best on his website (www.caughtclothing.com) but there is something about being "caught" in a moment that I just love in the photographic medium. Its so very true and raw.

"Soccer Moms"

"Soccer moms," Freddy said "spending all day driving around in shapeless vehicles that look like Flash Gordon's bread truck, and their children watch television in the back and ape superficial characters therein. This is the cause of deep unhappiness, because what they want is so different from what they have, even though they don't realize that this is so. They don't want their children to dress like circus clowns, speak like zombie chipmunks, and behave like programed machines. They want sons and daughters they can talk to; they want a struggle they can win but that they are not assured of winning; they want to know physical exhaustion; they want to be sunburned; they want to smell eucalyptus; they want to weep; they want to dance naked for their husbands; they want to feel wind, see the stars, swim in a river, slam the back door, and laugh uncontrollably with their children. That's what they want. They don't want the crap they have, the crap self promises, or the crap you would promise if you could figure out what to promise. They want to be free, to have dignity, to know honor and sacrifice. What else does anyone want?"
-Moofoomooach (or Freddy Finney from the book Freddy and Fredricka by Mark Helprin)

Kirkland

My dear friend Jody asked me to take some photos of a home and some settings down in Kirkland for her website. She is beginning a career in Real Estate and I was only too happy to help. Kirkland is such a great city. Email me for Jody's contact info, she would love to help with any real estate needs. And I will be sure to inform everyone of her website once it is finished!

Engagement

It is official! My little sister is engaged to be married!

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at eachother but in looking outward together in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through union in the same high effort. -Antione de Saint Exupery