"I believe the most loving thing you can say to a person is “Look.” And the most loving stance is not a close embrace, but two people standing side by side, looking out together on the world.
When people learn to look, they begin to see, really see. When they begin to see, they begin to care. And caring is the portal into the moral world."
Kathleen Dean Moore
And for good measure, here is a gorilla.
The first weekend in December Kennet competed in a sea kayak dash up at Deception Pass. It had been snowing in Seattle the day before and it was extremely cold up there, with intermittent snow. I took many failed photos but I like this one of him coming back in, a little over an hour later with a very respectable time. I warmed up by hiking up and around to the other side a huge hill where the main part of the pass is to get a better look, but I didn't take the camera for that part. Man is it hard to tell a bunch of boat people apart at height.
Here is me with my comb-over and our cute Christmas tree. We got a Norfolk Pine at City People's a week or two ago with the idea that it's the best compromise we can come up with . While I love love love a real tree, we both agree that cutting it down is a little more than we want to bite off at this point.
We made our own stockings this year, using somewhat felted sweaters. Kennet cut out the template shapes and I made some embellishments and sewed up the edges. We'll post more photos as soon as they're completely done.
Among the other Christmas business taking place around here:
This should be the first of a short series of photo dumps. Not much in the way of text, just pictures. Most of the pictures speak for themselves, or at least have little to say.
