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What is kindness?

“Those who are guided by kindness hardly even notice evil in another but pay attention instead to everything good and true in the person. When they do find anything bad or false they put a good interpretation on it.” – … Continue reading

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Seattle’s hills are the worst. Here’s a way to cope.

Below is a new map which delineates the hard to navigate Seattle Hills. We’re appropriately marked “red” on Cherry and Columbia but “green” on 8th and 9th at Skyline. This is an attempt to help us navigate the sometimes difficult … Continue reading

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Collection of amazing pictures

Amazing pictures around the world – oh my. Click here.

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On the way from Mexico to Kansas

Coronado Sunset with Point Loma in the distance From Wikipedia: Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of … Continue reading

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How’s your winter?

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Fake news or temper tantrum?

“I don’t know where he got the idea that screaming ‘fake news’ over and over would get him out of doing his homework.”

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Reading about aging – articles from 2016

The web site InvestigAge has an interesting list of articles for those of us in CCRC’s: What about social isolation in a Life Care facility? How disruptive it is to move from one care level to another? Does sexual activity … Continue reading

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Alert from the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care

Residents in Long Term Care are in for some difficult times if there is a drastic change in the way our Medicaid system is funded and managed. The following is an ‘alert’ from  National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care. … Continue reading

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Superbowl tickets available

Super Bowl Tickets Heard by the grapevine: “A friend of mine has two tickets to the 2017 Super Bowl game.  Luxury Box seats plus airfare and hotel, but he didn’t realize when he bought them that it’s on the same … Continue reading

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Christmas music

   

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Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots

In an election where the loser wins, some checking of ballots might be in order. An article by A. Alex Halderman, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan, makes a strong argument that audits of the electronic … Continue reading

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The longevity gap

 Costly new longevity drugs could help the wealthy live 120 years or more – but will everyone else die young? From Aeon: “The disparity between top earners and everyone else is staggering in nations such as the United States, where … Continue reading

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The generation gap

From Diane S: A very self-important college freshman was attending a recent football game. He took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his … Continue reading

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Topping out the western wall

43 stories (left), 34 stories but twice as wide (right).

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Treatment for “rejection-slip shock”

If we ever feel rejection, this may be 5 cents well spent!  

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The perils of sleeping in

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The view last year (before Fifth and Columbia building)

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An odd way to earn your stripes

The Fifth & Columbia building is now providing a textbook example of decoration that makes a building look even more sturdy than it really is.  Look at those diagonals on the twisty building. In this picture, we see at top … Continue reading

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The Mount Rainier Sunset

Here’s the view from that tall building next to Park Shore. 

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Library Movie Users’ Help Is Needed!

From Betsy Hanson: If you borrowed Hound of the Baskervilles, you put Original Sin in the returned box instead of the Hound disc. Would you swap them? If you borrowed the movie Waking Ned Divine, you returned the box empty.  Please … Continue reading

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The wrong kind of sunset

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Solar eclipse in a year from now

Near-total in Portland, 95% in Seattle.  Plan ahead for being south of the Columbia R.  10:45 am. 

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…and only one viewer on the Observation Deck

In another four weeks, the sun will set at 7pm, right in the middle of dinner.

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Town Hall retrofit plans

From the printout at our Sign-up Desk on 5th floor. 

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What the kids must be thinking

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