Wise & Wonderful

Immy & Deia, July 19

Bright & Beautiful

Deia & Immy

Photo by Summer

The Home Fires

In 2008, 27% of U.S. children lived in families where no parent had full-time, year-round employment.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Maternity Peeve

Need a Mortgage? Don’t Get Pregnant

Read The New York Times article featuring Elizabeth Budde, a 33-year-old oncologist living in Kenmore, Washington, then take action at MomsRising.org.

Work Party

Imogen helped (tolerated?) a work party in Port Angeles on Saturday. When I told her about it she said, "Party?! I want cake!"

Photo by Paula

Of Sweetness and Spice

Little Goddesses

Tootsie Doll

Forks Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Kiddies Parade

All I Touch on the Way

The Namesake

Imogen Cunningham
Photographer
Seattle, May 1965

Music and Movement

Toddler Dance Party Series

Ages 1-5

Port Angeles Library

10:15 am on the last three Fridays in July: July 16, 23 and 30

Get your groove on while singing and dancing at the library’s toddler dance party series. Did you know that music and movement help toddlers prepare to be better readers? -nols.org

Child Care Check

Red Day

Art Rocks

Encouraging Togetherness

Imogen celebrates her birthday with family and friends at the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts

"Dancing in a circle is an ancient tradition common to many cultures for marking special occasions, strengthening community and encouraging togetherness."

-Circle Dance, Wikipedia

She Carved Her Way

Emilie Brzezinski

"Throughout her marriage to national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Emilie pursued her career as a sculptor. 'She was always quite clear this was an important part of her,' said Mika [Brzezinski, her daughter]. 'She carved her way--literally.'" -The Reliable Source, The Washington Post

"After marrying, she sculpted for 25 years while raising a family, then had her first solo show in 1981 in Washington, D.C. [when she was 49]." -Wikipedia

Photo: The artist with "Family Trees," 2010; Kouros Gallery and The Washington Post

Walkability

Walk Score: Rate the walkability of your home

Of Recklessness & Water

Tongue Point, Mid-May

Happy 4th Birthday Imogen!

What I Tell Her at Bedtime

I need you.
The world needs you.

You're amazing.

You're my favorite person in the whole world.

I love you.

Thank you for making me a mother.
I always wanted to be a mother,
and you're exactly the child I wanted.

You're safe in the world tonight.

I love you.
I love you.
Good night.
I love you.

No Simple Reform

Gloria Steinem:

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described -- and will be, after our deaths -- by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Jone Johnson Lewis. From "Gloria Steinem Quotes." About Women's History. URL: http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/qu_g_steinem.htm. Date accessed: 05/25/10.

Did You Know?

"A study found non-mothers made 90 cents to a man's dollar, moms made 73 cents to the dollar, and single moms made 56 to 66 cents to a man's dollar." -MomsRising.org

From Joy to Joy to Joy

Breathe Locally

The American Lung Association State of the Air 2010 shows that Clallam County, Washington is one of the cleanest counties in the United States for ozone air pollution.

Image: storesonlinepro.com

Checking Out

Port Angeles Library

Saturday

Library Books

1940 WPA poster using Wee Willie Winkie

to promote children's libraries. -Wikipedia

Doll Clothes

"Little girls love dolls.

They just don't love doll clothes.

We've got four thousand dolls

and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on."

Jeff Foxworthy

The Rainbow Connection

Tuesday

Functional Art

On Saturday we also went to the Earth Day Fair on the City Pier on Port Angeles where Imogen carefully painted this reusable shopping bag (that painted my jeans on the way to the car).

Junior Ranger

Last Saturday, Imogen became a Junior Ranger with the National Park Service. She had to do five activities at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center in Port Angeles to earn her badge, patch and certificate. She looked at mounted bees and flies, did an outdoor scavenger hunt and a Going Camping program, made a flying squirrel necklace with a bottle lid and played in the Discovery Room. Our Ranger friends Brian, Tracy and Dean helped Immy with her accomplishment.

The White Balloon

Grammy and her friend Sue took Immy and her cousins to the Quillayute Airport near Forks to watch a person send up a weather balloon for the National Weather Service. It's done every day.

Photos: Sue K.

SKWIM

Pronunciation Guide of Washington Place Names

Giving Earth

Earth Day Sunset from Ediz Hook

Secrets and Surprises

"I had lots of secrets and surprises today."

-Imogen yesterday, on the phone from Grammy's

Little Bit

"Mama, your 'little bit' is actually a long time." -Imogen

Where Water Comes Together

Today

Tongue Point, Strait of Juan de Fuca

Gonna Watch You Shine

Tonight, Hollywood Beach

Jorge el Curioso

"Around the world, the adventures of Curious George have been translated in many languages, and George takes on names such as 'Peter Pedal' in Denmark, 'Nysgjerrige Nils' in Norway, 'Nicke Nyfiken' in Sweden, 'Hitomane Kozaru' in Japan, 'Choni Ha'Sakran' in Israel and 'Jorge el Curioso' in Spanish speaking countries." -Wikipedia

Photo: Filmweb.no

Best Art, Real Life

Hopscotch

This Evening

All Too Real

"It was, perhaps, the ultimate cultural rebuke, a reminder from the heavens that maybe we should not have been fixating on the man who publicly humiliated his wife and seemingly took for granted all that has been given him. Because right there in front of us was the man who was shuttling his wife to cancer treatments and handling a pain that is all too real to so many."

Lynn Zinser, "Mickelson Writes His Own Masters Script." The New York Times, April 12, 2010. Link.