Category Archives: Culture

MUSEE de la CHASSE et de la NATURE

I love this place!

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We were looking for Santas and found Do Ho Suh’s Gate!

We decided to call Santa and set up a visit a couple of weeks early. We planned to bust a move to Guatemala in the winter break. So, the night before opening the presents, Naomi and Simone dusted the floor with flour, hoping to capture a … Continue reading

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He said, “Nobody gets out of here alive.”

Was there a moment in your life that calibrated you for everything after it? This was one of mine. The summer after high school, I enrolled in a choreography workshop at Harvard University. Bill T Jones, Arnie Zane, and Lucinda … Continue reading

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A Furry Hammer met us on the sidewalk. Hello Nick Cave!

It seemed like a long time since we’d enjoyed the First Thursday art walk in our Pioneer Square neighborhood.   So, off we went to Occidental Square, where we checked in on Davidson Gallery and then over to the Lawrimore … Continue reading

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Did your school teach insatiable desire, focus and the art of persuasion? Sir Ken Robinson & Seth Godin pipe in on what we should and should not be teaching.

  Sir Ken Robinson believes that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and creating dysfunctional humans. The RSA animators are incredible! Thanks to Maggie Neilson, who posted the story on Facebook. Seth Godin believes that high schools … Continue reading

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Selling pigs off a bike

These roasted pigs are barely tied on. There is no hopping curbs or taking the steep short cut for this cyclist. The bike itself is the vendor stand at the market. If the pig doesn’t sell outright (usually they do) … Continue reading

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The Artist Toolbox – NOW for Season Two!

With each week, we become more popular!  The Artist Toolbox is now running 2 to 4 times a week in 227 PBS markets.  We were the LA Times “Pick of the Week” again (fifth time) as well as covered in … Continue reading

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Why they were saying among themselves that it cannot be done, it was done.

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” – Helen Keller Simone is working on a report about Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller. Though Helen … Continue reading

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Carrying the world on your shoulders?

I love this image.  Books.  Have you ever fallen into a book?  I sometimes carry pieces of them around in my head so woven into the brain that I have a hard time distinguishing what is actual and what was … Continue reading

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IndieFlix

My friend Scilla Andreen is on The Film School board with me.  She runs a company she started with Carlo Scandiuzzi called IndieFlixs.  You can find great independent films on her website as well as a party game where everyone … Continue reading

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Half the Sky is both a brutal awakening and an unmistakable call to action. -Melinda Gates

Our friend Amber Vandermeulen, a third grade teacher in the Kent school system, said that she and her husband had just read Half the Sky to one another on their last road-trip and she thought I might like it.   … Continue reading

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Simone’s on the cover of Life Magazine in Shanghai

Peter Lundberg, the sculptor of massive concrete works, and Graceley, the curator for the Chinese Olympic sculpture collection, came to visit last week.  Gracely brought a copy of Life magazine from Shanghai (There it is called The Bund).  Would you … Continue reading

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Kevin is making it safe to Gulp it down

My friend Kevin Flick is heading up a team at PATH focused on creating a household water purification system for the third world. Prior to this Kevin worked at Microsoft designing game related devices and before that he designed prosthetics. … Continue reading

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Massive art involving tens of thousands of individuals and best seen, in many cases, from outer space.

Bill McKibben’s recent article in Grist, talks about the massive art coming out of the 350 initiative. The name, 350 Earth, points to the number of parts per million that most scientists agree is an acceptable upper level of carbon … Continue reading

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Are you honing in on the virtues or letting them slide? Honestly?

My good friend Valerie Tarico writes a monthly column about developing virtues. She starts each post with a note about the particular character trait including a few quotes to ponder, discuss and share and then ends with an example of … Continue reading

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"Failure is Impossible"

My friend Roberta Riley and I have been emailing back and forth about hiring actress Debbie Dimitre or perhaps actress and playwright, Rachel Atkins to perform their profound pieces about the fight for the vote (the woman’s suffrage movement) at … Continue reading

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Naomi’s KOMO tour of the Tower or “What was on the cutting room floor?”

This KOMO news piece turned out well. In the hopes of championing ACT Theatre, which I love, I mentioned them dozens of times. I tried to weave ACT into whatever they asked about. “Yes, I DO love living downtown, especially … Continue reading

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115 "area ways" below the streets of Pioneer Square

After school the girls like to play in front of the building for a while. It’s our “porch”and on sunny days it is a fun place to hang out. Typically we get out the bikes, chalk and a few toys … Continue reading

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A One Nation Sunday

A One Nation demonstration is happening on 2nd Ave. The girls are watching folks congregate in the street and tell me that there are a buses driving up 1st Ave bringing more people to the rally. Then as quickly as … Continue reading

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Enjoy KT Niehoff’s “Relatively Real” from 2005

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