After three days of non-stop blustery soggy mayhem, something amazing happened: Oh My Gawd…the freaking SUN came out! It was still pretty windy…and the temperature had dropped considerably…but a sunny winter day in downtown Seattle means only one thing: Yea, verily I say unto you, thou must go on walk-about during thy lunch break. Period.
A walk-about downtown is not a real walk-about without drooling over pretty things through a large pane of glass…
…but if one stays too long plastered cheek-to-cheek with the window, not only does your face start to get really cold, but people start to look at you funny…and sales people try to get you to come in out of the wind “just to try it on”. Oh, hell no. That’s way too dangerous and/or painful. (No $$ = No can buy anything. sigh)
So, on we trod…
Hello, Westlake Park. Do you miss your Occupy Seattle brothers and sisters?
But it’s not all looking at the pavement on a sunny Seattle afternoon. Once you look up at the sky you can’t help but see the awesomeness that rises from the dark into the light…
But sooner or later, that Pied Piper’s tune wafts through the alleyways and trickles over the rooftops…and there you are again…
…with your face slowly losing feeling against the icy pane…your eyes glazed over…and tourists exchanging quizzical looks.
Fuck ’em. Leave me to my wistful fantasy…
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