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I’ll admit it: Since I was a kid, I loved watching Japanese taiko drumming. The beat. The movement. The booms.
You name it. It has everything a person would want out of a musical art.
So when I heard that The School of TAIKO would perform on Friday at Uwajimaya in Seattle, well, I made sure that my family and I were there.
Life continues to be a bit on the go for me – but in a way, that’s good.
One thing I appreciate about going almost anywhere is seeing what you spot on the way to a destination.
Photographer Grant Haller enjoyed that while he worked in daily journalism. I was reminded of that idea when my wife and I took our son, earlier this month, to the Blue Angels show over Lake Washington in the Seattle area.
Saturday’s heat in the Seattle area already blasted to the top of the record charts.
It’s a shrap contrast to last weekend, when say, overcast skies prompted the Blue Angels to fly a lower-than-usual show over Lake Union for Seafair, the annual summer festival.
So try this one on for size: Costco in South Seattle is selling snow gloves.
In a matter of minutes of online reading, I came across the use of polymath – in three different cases.
Dictionary.com defines the word as ”a person of great learning in several fields of study.”
Interestingly enough, the use was connected to Sidney Harman, the business leader who is buying Newsweek. He also sits on the board of The Aspen Institute, a think tank that focuses on ideas, civic life and education.
As you might have seen, I had an exhilarating and invigorating time blogging for the Wing Luke Museum’s Chinese Heritage Tour of the American West.
If you haven’t read the blog entries, please have a look. The pace was fast – but good- and the investment in time was well worth it. It’s one of those trips in life that you set time aside to take – well, because it’s unclear when you’ll have time to do it again.
The group of 35 people or so returned to the Seattle area early last week. I’ve been resting up and getting caught up on things on the homefront.
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