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Author: Carl Setzer
A blogger blogging from just north of Seattle.
The fireworks continue…
The Fourth was Tuesday
Plus it’s nearly ten at night
Enough fireworks
Sigh…I’m quite ready to be done with fireworks.
A Sculpture In Redmond’s Library
Winds dancing boldly
Sunlight’s grace beckons to me
Voices of the West
Saw this sculpture in the lobby of the Redmond branch of the Ling County Library System.
Abandoning All We Are
Abandon all that we are
So we can become
All that we might be
I see myself trapped by my past, by the barriers erected from fear, insecurity and doubt. “Grow past them…” I counsel myself. “Push past them. They are but vapor, illusion, less real than the dreams. Dreams create! So I shall focus on them.
A new productivity tool
Just discovered Best Self. After briefly skimming their site, I see a lot of potential with their productivity tools. There’s a journal that intrigues me.
It’s set up for 13 week goal setting and tracking. I like the way they break down your goals and then build out plans to make them happen.
Keeping focus in our distraction laden world: truest gold! Yet I chafe at the prices.
I’ll dig deeper, though.
A Child’s Funeral
Nothing is sadder
Than a child’s funeral
Winter’s emptiness
It’s been several months since we buried my friend’s son. It was a wretched, painful day. I never want to feel that way again. Sadly, the odds are against me.
Real Estate – Construction Thought Of The Day
A client saved a lot of money by buying house plans off the internet. However, the savings are being chipped away at by the needed engineering of the plans in order to make them compliant with local zoning and Washington State laws. Not sure if, in the end, they will still save money or these additional costs will raise bring up higher.
My advice: if you find a house you adore online, then, sure, go-ahead and buy those plans. Recognize that there will, most likely, be some additional costs associated with bringing the plans up-to-code locally. Make it about what you love, vs saving a few bucks here or there.
Hey, I fully support saving money. Just, well, make sure you’re not spending more money to save. Or, as a friend likes to put it, don’t step over dollars to get to nickles.
This Long Night
Weariness drags me
I’ve been awake far too long
Dreams are beckoning
The Flicker
Awoke this morning
By the distinctive rattle
Destructive beauty
Woke to the rattle of a woodpecker on my roof. It took several tosses of fir cones, but he was convinced to move along.
Smoke on this Evening Breeze
Hot summer’s evening
The scent of smoke alarming
Nothing to fear, right?