A food truck for dogs. I want to say that’s peak … I don’t even know what a dogfood truck is. But it seems pretty extra.
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A Pirate’s Life for Me
From what I understand of Azores history, the islands served as transAtlantic fueling stations and historically housed whalers and fisherman. But it’s easy to imagine them as a pirate’s paradise. Do the locals identify much with pirates the way folks in the American Southwest do with bandits? Or are pirates always the bad guys in Azorean stories? Whether this is sanctioned public art reflecting the local culture or punk protest of it, I think these are words to live by.
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Third Place Books
After decades in Seattle, I realized I had never been to the suburban “city” of Lake Forest Park. All I knew about it was that it had the famous Third Place Books bookstore. The name references a theory that people need a place to live, a place to work, and a third place to gather and form a community. As far as I can tell, the bookstore is the only third place in that small bedroom community. So one day we drove out there, and it was everything we could have hoped for. But it was still all the way out in LFP. Later, they opened a new store in Ravenna, a neighborhood that I could walk to. (I would never walk to the bookstore, though, because books are heavy and I’d never make it home.) We were thrilled, and it has since become our favorite bookstore. This photo is our haul from our first visit to the Third Place in Ravenna.
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Windows and Walls
It’s funny. If there was a wall like this in your neighborhood, you’d curse your neighbors for not tearing it down or fixing it up. But you see a wall like this on vacation and it’s so picturesque you snap a photo and take it home to show your neighbors how pretty the place you visited is. It makes me wonder how much of our energy is really misspent.
