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Snaps in Portland

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Snaps Kayaking at Mukilteo Beach

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Snaps While Kayaking: Part V of V

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Snaps in Port Ludlow: Part IV of V

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Snaps at Elandan Gardens

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Snaps at Bloedel Reserve: Part II of V

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Snaps on the Kitsap Peninsula: Part I of V

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Snaps at Paradise Valley Conservation Area

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Coal Creek Loop

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Snaps At the Dog Park

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Bellevue Botanical Gardens

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Taking a Land Cruise

We decided to vacation via train! So, metaphorically, we took our training wheels off and away we went! Using the Amtrak, we could travel from Seattle to LA and back making stops along the way. Using the train, not as a destination provider, but as a cruise. A land cruise, if you will. Our train journey started with a jaunt from Seattle to Sacramento. It is an enchanting experience with…

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Somewhere Down the Road

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In Honor of ADA30

In Honor of ADA30

I can’t believe that it’s been 30 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. If it’s been difficult for do things as a person with a disability since that time, it would probably have been a nightmare before then. I never needed accommodations as a young person; but if I had, I had no way of knowing…

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Vulnerability on a Sunday Evening

Vulnerability on a Sunday Evening

I’ve let you all down recently by disappearing. I’ve plunged into words in a different way. I’ll tell you more if you let me, but for now, since I’ve been gone so long, I’ll share this.

VULNERABILITY

is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without, vulnerability is not a choice, vulnerability is the underlying, ever present and abiding under-current of…

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Give Your Heart to the Wounded Healer

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A MEDITATION IN BLACKNESS I am a black man.I was planted in deep, loamy, black soil by my black father.