JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

from yesterday excerpts: – went to a neighborhood meeting, the girls sitting quietly for an hour in wicker chairs. – looked into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, saw across into Canada and glimpsed Mt. Baker like a white ghost hovering over the Sound. – saw a Goss hawk and two turkey vultures – walked […]

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from yesterday On our way home from our friends, I thought we’d try to stop by an amateur astronomy meeting. At the high school parking lot, we found a small group setting up telescopes. Abigail introduced herself to one as “I’m 5 and a half” and the man replied “I’m 71 and a half.” Definitely […]

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from yesterday Today we went to visit friends, a couple who are in their fifties. When we arrived, the wife asked the girls if they like to play dress-up. She then said she had an outfit they could put on and play with. A gift to take home. It was her wedding gown. I was […]

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from yesterday Driving today out to the coast, I see the road before me, black, yellow and white. Straight ahead of me are hills, fading with distance and depth, looking like layers of tissue paper or ridges of watercolor flowing into each other. The green-blue hues, the thick of the forest, the bright of mountain […]

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The other day, as Abigail was putting her pile of laundry away, she decided to organize her dresser drawers. I had figured it wasn’t worthwhile to try to get young children to keep shirts and pants in tidy folds and rows. Since the girls, ages 5 and 3, were the ones taking the clothes in […]

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