Snapshots in time of a family in the wind
Early January 2007
Cliffs at this edge of ocean were forbidding, terrifying, and hypnotic in their power. We felt mesmerized as we watched massive waves roll in thru wind and rain to explode upon the rocks below and roar up cliffs into the sky. The Columbia River surged down from the Canadian and American bowels of Cascadia into the vast Pacific Ocean. River and sea currents smashed together to form one of the most chaotic, dangerous, and dynamic river deltas in the world, the Columbia River Bar. Kristina’s Dad goes out fishing in it all the time.
Bass-Katayama Family near cliff’s edge at Cape Disappointment, Washington. L2R: front row: Talia & Kate; middle: Kristina & Morgan (now Dylan); rear: William. Pics recovered from Kristina’s old camera fone. Tuesday 2 January 2007.
Peekaboo Talia!
We were an amazing blended family. Many people told us how much they admired us. Wasn’t always easy, however, and our success arose from being grounded intentionally in our communities. We especially valued the mix of cooperative communities, alternative spirituality, the dance between polyamory & monogamy as conscious choices, attachment parenting styles, and much personal growth, training, & development.
Kate in the evening wind. A cold, wet Winter wind. Ahh, Kate, age 8, so clever & determined in the twilight gloom of Cape Disappointment, January 2007.
What is my middle daughter thinking? What does she feel?
Kristina & her stepdaughter Morgan, who changed their name to Dylan Blair in 2018. Here my oldest girl is about 12 & a half years old.
Storms roil the sea as ocean waves thrash these volcanic cliffs at the edges of North America. We’re up on the north or Washington side of the Columbia River Bar.
I love these people. Feels strange to gaze back across time at our unique family from over a dozen years ago. On this cold, blustery January day in 2007, Kristina was 38 years old, Morgan/Dylan was 12.5, William (me) was about 47 & a half, Talia was 4 & a half, & Kate was 8.
Aren’t any fotos of the lighthouse!
William Dudley Bass
Tuesday 3 September 2019
Seattle, Washington
USA
Cascadia
Sol
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