Photos from Our Seattle Trip 201012/1/12

Maybe a type of Lavender?

Thomas Street Community Gardens, Seattle

so wonderful the neighborhood has created this beautiful garden for all to share!

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/ppatch/locations/34.htm
http://www.metrofieldguide.com/?p=240

Wandering around Capitol Hill, checking the nice gardens the residents have there



I am going to post a few more photos from Seattle Trips, this one from 2010. Jaime and I try to head north at the end of May each year, to attend two amazing festivals in this amazing city!

First is the Northwest Folklife Festival, featuring all kinds of performances and workshops featuring music, dance and culture from around the world
http://www.nwfolklife.org/

To continue our world travels in our imagination, we also attend the fantastic Seattle International Film Festival
http://www.siff.net/festival/about

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Last night we attended an event in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, and saw a wonderful talk and poetry reading by an amazing poet, Nikki Giovanni
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/rss/ci_19842739


Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)
by Nikki Giovanni

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad

I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
the tears from my birth pains
created the nile
I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on the forest and burned
out the sahara desert
with a packet of goat's meat
and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can't catch me

For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on

My son noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
jesus
men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
the filings from my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
the earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
across three continents

I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky...






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