JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Also while walking downtown today, I noticed a beautiful pot of plants growing in the middle of an island in the street. There, amidst concrete, red, yellow and purple flowers flourished. It was far enough away from any possible sprinkler system that it seemed someone must be watering the colorful plants by hand, certainly if […]

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This morning, while walking around downtown Bainbridge, Abigail said, “I see a fancy car” Indeed, it was a Mercedes – but I don’t think my daughter was recognizing that. No, what she was noticing was the bright sunburst painted on the hood, the lovely purple flowers climbing along the side window, and the pasture with […]

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Reading the Seattle Times this morning, I discover how obvious it is that I have leadership potential : you can see it in my feet…. …and all these years I thought it was called Morton’s foot (no, my toes are not as extreme as in this photo….) The other day my husband Ted posted this […]

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This morning I sat outside on my porch for a few moments of quiet. Simple observations in the silence spoke many words to me inside. I looked at my fountain, which I had fixed yesterday. Two years ago while taking a water features class, I desired to have some sort of sophisticated fountain, so I […]

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On July 21st, I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR and briefly caught a bit of Robert Siegel’s interview with Valery Gergiev, who conducted a new recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 “The Leningrad” with the combined Kirov Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic. Today I looked on NPR’s web site and found the audio […]

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