Explorations : Astoria.

Great Uncle with two young children in Astoria

How to get ready with aplomb.

"I'm dressing like a ninja," he announced as he got himself dressed, solo, unaided, the confidence of a thousand samurai evident on his four-year old face.

Lennon-McCartney (The beauty of hyphenate towns).

Kelso-Longview. Is there such thing as parity with these places; is there a hierarchy or a competition, a sibling rivalry or little ways of jostling under one another’s skin?

Is Kelso Longview better? I.e. without the hyphen? What about Longview-Kelso?

Maybe it doesn’t matter. But does it matter that we wonder whether it matters?

These are questions that are appropriate to ponder, considering the presence of the great man featured above. He is the sort of figure that I can love and be exasperated with, simultaneously, by asking one too many of these questions one too many times.

I may do that as well.

Easter story

We told and discussed the life of Jesus driving. As suspected, many of the incoming questions had to with whether various figures were “bad.” Or, pronounced like our son: baaayyyd.

Highway 30 drive.

Long ago people used to go for drives just for fun.

Some of still do.

Psalty.

It’s a silly figure in little kids’ Christian music that goes far back in time. At least to the…80s? We dug up an old tape and listened quietly together for about 13 seconds, at which point Becca and joined in on the songs. Some things never leave you from childhood.