The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has said: “After Sunday’s attack in Orlando as Christians we must speak out in support of LGBTI people, who have become the latest group to be so brutally targeted…
We must pray, weep with those affected, support the bereaved, and love without qualification…
The obligation to object to these acts of persecution, and to support those LGBTI people …arises from the unshakeable certainty of the gracious love of God for every human being.”
Our hearts and prayers go out to all those caught up in the shooting in Orlando; the families and friends of those dead or injured, the local LGBTI community who are the focus of this act of terror and hate, and the Muslim community who fear retaliation.
May love prevail at this time of deep sorrow.
‘Smile, breathe and go slowly.’
(Tich Nhat Hanh)
SAM, Seattle Art Museum, is holding an exhibition of French Impressionists. This wonderful Odilon Redon painting ‘ Breton Village’, circa 1890, is imbued with a transparency of light.
Many thanks to SAM’s for allowing photography, a great help to those of us who need images to help us remember.
We stayed in the Panama Hotel in Seattle’s International District which was built in 1910. The hotel contains the last remaining Japanese bathhouse (sento), in its original site, in the United States. The image above is of the hotel’s cafe situated directly over the bath house.
We took a ferry to Bainbridge Island from where the first Japanese in the USA were interned in 1942.
The killing of nine people in an Oregon college is the 294th “mass shooting” in the US this year, according to one definition of such tragedies. Many flags are at half mast and families are concerned for their children and wondering ‘where next?’
Obama immediately demanded tighter gun laws, saying prayers are “no longer enough…We are not the only country on Earth that has people with mental illnesses or want to do harm to other people but we are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these mass shootings.”
Our hearts go out to everyone involved.
Nearby the Space Needle a young boy was driving his remote controlled truck along the path of the labyrinth. A first for me!
(parental permission granted for this photograph)
The Yorkshire in me would not allow the purchase of $300 + tickets. So we watched the game in a Sports Bar in downtown Seattle instead.
This time the name of a fabulous blue hot air balloon.
We went up early this morning with five other balloons and flew silently over the Willamette River nearly touching down in a winding creek before lifting over the towering pines.
One of the great things about travel is tasting new food and drink. We love the smell and taste of Huckleberry jam. Just smelling the jar this morning took me back to Beckie’s, a rustic restaurant in Union Creek where we ate their famous Huckleberry pie.
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