Facilitating Change

For the next two weeks I’m in Seattle. Working with my TASCHA peeps, mostly to get our new website launched. Today it was sunny, not enough to see the mountains but nonetheless magnificent. Today I saw a home for sale with the sign: 100% Financing. I thought: Good god, people. Isn’t that how you got into this mess in the first place? Then I got a delicious latte, got on the bus, and was lost to the hills and the views and Lake Union. It was cool, but not cold. No edge like Montreal. I noticed the moss on the sidewalk, the low and cosy houses. After work I went to get my Seattle bike out of my friend’s garage. Let me tell you this is the best ~$400 I ever spent. Biking along and near the Burke-Gilman is most wonderful. Along the way I stopped at PCC, marveled at their wonderful local wine collection, picked out a bottle (gaVin Cabernet Sauvigon 2008 — nice tobacco-y thing going on at the beginning, but not too heavy), and bought lots of beautiful, overpriced, organic produce. Then home. (Not my home really but it’s super good so it feels that way.) Up the hill. Forcing. Pushing. Shedding layers along the way as I got warmer and warmer. Tired. Then cooking while listening to a podcast of Cory Doctorow and Sandra Birdsell on CBC. Why can’t I be as articulate as Cory? Good thing he’s there to speak for me. Now soon sleep. Luckier than lucky I am.