THANK YOU! Firefighters!!

Boarding the Ferry to Bainbridge Island, in the Puget Sound http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/ There is a huge ferry transit system that can take you to many islands around the area, and even to Victoria and Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.

Jaime and I try to head up to Seattle each Spring, to attend two wonderful festivals happening there. THe first is the Northwest Folklife Festival, a huge festival of music and dance from around the world http://www.nwfolklife.org/ The second, is the Seattle International Film Festival http://www.siff.net Since we can't afford to tour the world, it is a way to take the tour in our imagination, supplemented with Seattle's wonderful mix of ethnic restaurants!

Normally Seattle is known for cloudy and rainy weather. But on this trip, the weather was incredibly beautiful, and it was the first time in 30 years that the four days of the folklife festival were all sunny! We enjoyed it, but couldn't help think that it might be the result of global climate change, and what effect it might have on the incredible Olympic Peninsula Rainforests

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Reading an interesting article in Rolling Stone Magazine, about global warming and the upcoming United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, by Naomi Klein http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30841581/climate_rage

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING to those who celebrate it!
"Thank You" by Alanis Morissette

"How about getting off of these antibiotics
How about stopping eating when I'm filled up
How about them transparent dangling carrots
How about that ever elusive kudo

Thank you India
Thank you terror
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you frailty
Thank you consequence
Thank you thank you silence

How about me not blaming you for everything
How about me enjoying the moment for once
How about how good it feels to finally forgive you
How about grieving it all one at a time

Thank you India
Thank you terror
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you frailty
Thank you consequence
Thank you thank you silence

The moment I let go of it was
The moment I got more than I could handle
The moment I jumped off of it was
The moment I touched down

How about no longer being masochistic
How about remembering your divinity
How about unabashedly bawling your eyes out
How about not equating death with stopping

Thank you India
Thank you providence
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you nothingness
Thank you clarity
Thank you thank you silence"

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxueYZLvs48 with Spanish Subtitles

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