Take just a moment to consider….how to be alone. Poem written & performed by Tanya Davis:

If you like words, you’ll probably like these: Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Dijon vu – the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating – always use condiments. Shotgun wedding – A case of wife or death. A  Continue Reading

Fearless reader of the Update: It is my hope that you wake every day either looking for poems to read & feel, or looking to share poems like that, or maybe to find the words, ideas & feelings to build poems of your own to share (like flowers from your garden, or cookies you just  Continue Reading

As Josie & I were sorting through the six million pictures we took on the Fourth, we couldn’t help but notice that we had a great number of photos with dogs in them. Since the island has the greatest number of friendly dogs in the world, we made this little video/slideshow with music for you….hope  Continue Reading

It’s the dream we carry that something wondrous will happen that it must happen – time will open hearts will open doors will open mountains will open spring will will gush forth from the ground that the dream itself will open that one morning we’ll quietly drift into a harbor we didn’t know was there  Continue Reading

If you haven’t seen one, you’ll be amazed….and you can check it out from the comfort of your own island! Here’s more: Tesla Motors, maker of the pure electric high performance sports car will be in Friday Harbor for the first time this Saturday. The zero-emission Roadster accelerates from 0-60 in 3.7 seconds without a  Continue Reading

Several people in the past few weeks have asked me if I’d heard of this nice Canadian indie folk-rock band, so I’ve been listening to them lately…see what you think of them. Here’s the’ New Pornographers, with Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk (here are the lyrics, if you want to sing along):

WSU Extension Beach Watcher Coordinator Shann Weston wrote to tell you & me that she just graduated her latest class of Beach Watchers…you can learn more about the program here, and follow their blog here. Here’s more from Shann: San Juan County Extension is proud to announce the graduation of the 2010 WSU Beach Watcher  Continue Reading

Just an idea….but you just gotta. Right now, before you do anything else, call someone & tell them how you appreciate them. How life’s better because they’re around. How they make you smile. How you’re glad they’re in your posse. Kinda like a phone hug or something. Then get back to work (the San Juan  Continue Reading

Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year? A. Father’s Day

A poem for the day for you….. I Have News for You by Tony Hoagland There are people who do not see a broken playground swing as a symbol of ruined childhood and there are people who don’t interpret the behavior of a fly in a motel room as a mocking representation of their thought  Continue Reading

Here’s Deep Blue Something with their Breakfast at Tiffany’s….get up & dance, first thing….

there are so many tictoc clocks everywhere telling people what toctic time it is for tictic instance five toc minutes toc past six tic Spring is not regulated and does not get out of order nor do its hands a little jerking move over numbers slowly we do not wind it up it has no  Continue Reading

It’s always good to wake up to “Here Comes the Sun,” and even better to wake up to Paul Simon singing it with Graham Nash & David Crosby…..

Remember the movie “The Sterile Cuckoo”? Probably not…wasn’t that big a deal. But there was a song that went with it called Come Saturday Morning by the Sandpipers in 1969. Nominated for an Oscar in 1970, the song made it to #17 in the charts at one point. If you listen to it twice, it’ll  Continue Reading

Hey, remember the Jazz Festival we used to have for twenty years, till it ended in the late ’90s? Here’s a clip I found on YouTube of Jim Cullum’s Jazz Band from San Antonio, Texas when they played here in 1986. Bet you’ll like them…for shooting with a handheld Sony Video8, the guy who posted  Continue Reading

My friend John Simon always sends me stuff to think about…so I figured if he made me get up & think, I’d share the effort. Here’s what he has on his mind this morning: I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. Gardening Rule:  Continue Reading

Here’s Coldplay with Square One…a little song for your morning!

It’s fun to look at stats & such…the stat tracker thingie says in the last month folks in 52 countries (the ones in green) checked out the Update. Cool. Where are you reading from? Leave a note in the comments below if you like….

Folks have been asking lately how it’s going – my move from the Corporate Suites of By Design on Guard Street to the home office at my house in a 12 x 12 room that used to be my son’s hideaway. It’s great. Much easier to keep tidy, easier to make tea, and fun to  Continue Reading

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Music takes you where you need to go…take a moment to discuss it with Bobby McFerrin here: