what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

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lux sit

December 21, 2021

48 hours came and went but i still can’t say it all makes sense

 

ask me about 515 Madison some day...

 

Here and now clocking the passage of 96 hours and counting I’ve gained some retrospective perspective after I took a little stroll down misty water colored memory lane in the 98101 this past Saturday. Along the way I only took a few photos but they all fit the that-was-then this-is-now theme. Same spot, different year. 

 

And on this shortest darkest day of the year I say “lux sit” which in generic Latin translates to “let there be light”   Lux Sit is the motto for a large state school with a scenic 700 acre campus in Seattle. Perhaps you've heard of it. I believe a more accurate translation of the cute little Latin phrase is: “Can I get a lamp up in here? Seattle is fucking dark in December” 

 

A building by any other name would be a building. You can call it SeaFirst, Safeco, Bank of America or blah blah blah plaza.  I call it 1001. And that’s pronounced (ten-oh-one). As a legal messenger I spent a lot of time in and around it. So when I walked by at 1:00am Sunday morning, I took a photo but I didn’t have any tall cans to sip on the stoop beneath Dasher or Dancer or Prancer or Vixen. But it made me smile to think of when I did when I would when I could hide in plain sight. 

 

Several hours later I stopped on a bench near teletubby hill and had a tall can. Easy like Sunday morning like. Same bench, different year, different beer. Same park but way more 5-story condos all around 

 


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39 said...

This all makes sense now.

Posted December 21, 2021 07:04 PM | Reply to this comment

like bob mould said...

I see a little light

Posted December 22, 2021 05:40 AM | Reply to this comment

they said...

it was the box the space needle came in

Posted December 22, 2021 08:03 PM | Reply to this comment

. said...

You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

Posted December 22, 2021 09:57 PM | Reply to this comment

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