Her Heart Was An Open BookPortland, OR

She always got her best ideas and finest answers when her heart was open and her mind was clear. 
He always knew the moment it happened.
Couched in WonderlandPortland, OR
... because if I lived in Wonderland with a title that rhymed with "Rad" and "Bladder"... this would be my couch. 

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Francis & Babsy


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One Portland, OR

Every time I see this photo - with its top hat and tails and it's spray-painted "One" - my posture improves, I feel stage lights on my face, sense the audience breathing (you can't really see them when you have stage lights in your eyes). I wait for the music and... Pause... 

Yeah. Then I snap to and realize that my audience of today includes geese, pelicans, ducks that are blissfully unaware of this impending musical downbeat... and are just fine with that! hehheh.

"One" is a number from the musical "A Chorus Line". I have no idea if this artist knew that - but trust me I do! And at one time I knew every word and step. 
siiiiigh.

My dancing days were friggin' AWESOME!!
(which explains why I'm prone to breaking into song'n dance at a moment's notice. wink)

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What Gives?
Waiting On The Corner of Here & There
Whenever someone asked her where she was from, she always answered:
"Oh, here and there."
She was evasive that way. 
Not that she had anything to hide... she just liked sharing on her own terms, not theirs.

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EscapePortland, OR
It was like another world. Dream or reality?
She voted dream and narrowed her eyes as she read the wall scrawl. 
Escape. Right.
To just where, exactly? On whose terms?
And who would be waiting?
She surmised that those who'd leapt before her, never to be seen or heard from again, didn't bother to question these small details.

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I Stay... I Go
My Dearest,
For all the loveliness of Here, there is ever and always something drawing me There.
It is simply who I am. 
Love, Me


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Port O LandPDX, Portland, OR



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One

Portland, OR

Every time I see this photo - with its top hat and tails and it's spray-painted "One" - my posture improves, I feel stage lights on my face, sense the audience breathing (you can't really see them when you have stage lights in your eyes). I wait for the music and... Pause...

Yeah. Then I snap to and realize that my audience of today includes geese, pelicans, ducks that are blissfully unaware of this impending musical downbeat... and are just fine with that! hehheh.

"One" is a number from the musical "A Chorus Line". I have no idea if this artist knew that - but trust me I do! And at one time I knew every word and step.
siiiiigh.

My dancing days were friggin' AWESOME!!
(which explains why I'm prone to breaking into song'n dance at a moment's notice. wink)

©Karen Hutton - Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 3.0)
One Portland, OR

Every time I see this photo - with its top hat and tails and it's spray-painted "One" - my posture improves, I feel stage lights on my face, sense the audience breathing (you can't really see them when you have stage lights in your eyes). I wait for the music and... Pause... 

Yeah. Then I snap to and realize that my audience of today includes geese, pelicans, ducks that are blissfully unaware of this impending musical downbeat... and are just fine with that! hehheh.

"One" is a number from the musical "A Chorus Line". I have no idea if this artist knew that - but trust me I do! And at one time I knew every word and step. 
siiiiigh.

My dancing days were friggin' AWESOME!!
(which explains why I'm prone to breaking into song'n dance at a moment's notice. wink)

©Karen Hutton - Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 3.0)

One

Portland, OR

Every time I see this photo - with its top hat and tails and it's spray-painted "One" - my posture improves, I feel stage lights on my face, sense the audience breathing (you can't really see them when you have stage lights in your eyes). I wait for the music and... Pause...

Yeah. Then I snap to and realize that my audience of today includes geese, pelicans, ducks that are blissfully unaware of this impending musical downbeat... and are just fine with that! hehheh.

"One" is a number from the musical "A Chorus Line". I have no idea if this artist knew that - but trust me I do! And at one time I knew every word and step.
siiiiigh.

My dancing days were friggin' AWESOME!!
(which explains why I'm prone to breaking into song'n dance at a moment's notice. wink)

©Karen Hutton - Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 3.0)
See photo in original gallery.