Little Boy with Toy Truck

A little Seattle vignette

The ramp in the story. We staff were rearranging the store as we transitioned from spring and summer to fall and winter.

A child, one little boy – maybe two, three years old at the most – pushes a yellow, toy Tonka truck down the ramp here at work in the Downtown Seattle REI store. He’s fierce, determined, and lost in focused joy. His Mom stands at the top of the ramp watching, bemused, as he takes off a pushin’. My coworker the Bandana Man stood near the bottom and off to the side, chuckling, chuckling hard enough to make his belly shake. Continue reading

Ripples Sparkling in the Sunset

From a magickal evening at Lime Kiln Point State Park, San Juan Island, Washington

Ripples sparkle in the sunset on our honeymoon.

Faithlyn and I, newlyweds, sat in a restaurant on the edge of Friday Harbor and asked our server where do locals go to enjoy the best sunsets. 

“At the old lighthouse at Lime Kiln!” she blurted as she stood up straight with a grin. “My parents used to run the lighthouse there back when it was a real, working lighthouse.”

So that’s where we went. Continue reading