Category: family

Here is (a scan of) the original slide I discovered many years ago — I think it was among a latent collection Janet unearthed.  From this original, I scanned it, then cropped out a very small chunk for the photo previously posted, as you can see.   (Hey, would that be Jean on the other horse?)

By the way, you can toggle between both photos by clicking on this one to enlarge its view, then using your back-and-forth keys (i.e., your arrow keys or the arrow icons).

This week, in a New York Times piece entitled “Our Mothers As We Never Saw Them“, Edan Lepucki talks about her mother and invites other women to share pictures of their mothers before they were mothers. 

I have not (yet, anyway) coordinated this with daughter Ivi, but inspired by that piece, I am showing here a 1963 image (photographer unknown) of Kim, fording the Minam River in the Blue Mountains with her horse.

Due a software quirk/bug (maybe) or a personal brain-lapse (much more likely), the link from the single-frame capture version to the full animated Ivi dance graphic version from yesterday failed to function.  Here we try again, from scratch, so try clicking through on this for the intended effect (that is, click on this image, then when the Instagram version appears, click the “play” button in the middle of its image):

Today we had a Google Hangouts session with Ivi …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And we discovered this Instagram posting a bit earlier. (This is a just a single-frame capture; to see the animated action click on the same image here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTrvakfBvSp/?hl=en)

And, speaking of Velouria, we find that it made The Evergrey‘s list of Seattle’s 23 Most Awesome Small Businesses.

 

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Brother Dennis just located this photograph, apparently taken by my father as he does not appear therein, of the family (l. to r., self, Dennis, Mother Thelma and Jan).  Drove the ’55 Chevy to South Dakota and Wyoming and back.   

Ivi called today, and we learn that Velouria is supporting a local Seattle nonprofit by donating 20% of its profits on Wednesdays (#womxnswednesdays) this month.  The nonprofit, Muses, provides job training for immigrants and refugees and educates them on their workers’ rights.

Shop online or if you are in Seattle, drop in to say hi to Chika and Ivi and the rest of this amazing woman-force.

Earlier we saw a couple of early photographs of my mother, Thelma.  Here are a few more examples with her younger brothers, Dean and Paul.  Dates approximate, but ranging from early-to-near-mid 20th century.