{"id":2265,"date":"2019-07-22T21:09:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T02:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2019-07-24T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T01:24:50","slug":"hello-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"HELLO, FROM …."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello from Seattle!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, three weeks into my latest adventure, I am happily west coastal and loving my digs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though nothing can replace Roseledge on the harbor of my summers,\u00a0 I am still near water, busy monitoring boats as they line up in the Ship Canal to go through Ballard Locks on their way to Puget Sound.\u00a0 I see mostly a few very big fishing boats and lots of too-big pleasure (power) boats, both of which are new to me. So much to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Action Picture 1.\u00a0 Monitoring. You may think this is Alfred Hitchcock, with chipmunk cheek, planning a Rear Window<\/em><\/strong> adaptation, tentatively titled Canal Window<\/em><\/strong>, but you would be wrong.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good idea, though.<\/p><\/div>\n

East coastal Roseledge, the place of my heart and a memory for the ages, will carry on only in blog-dom as\u00a0 Roseledge Books, which will be ever there for inquiring minds, those curious folks who ask and vote and generally make the world a better place — except for 2016.\u00a0 Where were you when Disaster Trump appeared? Aargh! We have our 2020 work cut out for us. I hope for all of our differences in books and other matters, that we can join together, as people who read and think and get things done to rid the world of His Pestilence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This makes Roseledge Books and it\u2019s readers sound very much like the \u201cbusiness\u201d started by the Canadian ex-spy who, for pay, recommends to his Wall Street followers, that they choose best books from his lists and, then, set apart reading time in their days (all previously noted two posts back, dated March 20, 2019). More recently, it sounds like Ceridwan Dovey\u2019s efforts to find out if reading can make you happier<\/a>. She did this by signing up for a remote session with a bibliotherapist from London\u2019s School of Life.\u00a0 The session was a gift. Similarly, but on her own, Marianne sent me the following note: \u201c<\/span>I just finished reading <\/span>Soul of America<\/i><\/strong> by Jon Meacham<\/strong>, about surviving the Trump presidency. It was encouraging, so I appreciated that.\u201d I call that hope, and surely hope is at the center of happy.\u00a0 So maybe reading CAN make you happier. Better and more interesting, I know for sure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this spirit of learning about current affairs through reading books, I continue to tackle\u00a0 Middle East mores and moves from the exploits of Israeli spy and art restorer,Gabriel Allon, and Daniel Silva<\/strong> is spot-on again in his brand new novel, <\/strong><\/span>The New Girl.<\/i><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Equally learned about intrigue in places less well- known is David Ignatius<\/strong>, foreign policy analyst for the W<\/em><\/span>ashington Post<\/em>,<\/i><\/strong> though his last two, The Quantum Spy<\/i><\/strong> and The Directorate<\/i><\/strong> were as much about the FBI as they were about world affairs, but the FBI seems a mess, too.<\/p>\n

So we read, which is good..\u00a0 But, increasingly, we also see, too.\u00a0 Remember the recent \u201cPelosi looks drunk\u201d video? BIG ALERT!\u00a0 It was a deep fake,<\/a> about which Regina Rini notes, among other good points, that with so much seeing, we need to start paying more attention to\u00a0 what the video says, who it comes from, how it got to us, and why, because it all matters.\u00a0 Prior to Professor Rini,the latest, best source I remember reading about visual sophistication is documentarian Errol Morris\u2019<\/strong><\/span> Believing Is Seeing<\/i><\/strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 So, CHECK YOUR SOURCES.\u00a0 BE PERPETUALLY WARY! Pictures have always been malleable, but with unregulated social media and new technologies, videos can be easily manipulated, then distributed widely and virtually instantaneously through all kinds of channels.\u00a0 We, as readers and voters have to be vigilant for our own good, and we, as librarians, need to be vigilant and pro-active for the good of the world. I firmly believe librarians can — and should — save the world, one wary reader at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, books are good, but not enough when a mighty lonesomeness sets in. So, this weekend, I indulged my love of rocky coasts by getting up way too early and watching for way too long, the (cough) British Open Golf Tournament on the magnificent coast of Northern Ireland. WOW!\u00a0 And though I have a few sailboats and the calls and swooping flight of gulls nearby, it is not enough. I miss Tenants Harbor a lot. So I am calling on the Sea Street walkers-by, to rest a bit on Roseledge\u2019s rock wall, watch the harbor, and through ESP, keep me in the loop which Scott has promised to invent.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a word,\u00a0 my move defines \u201cbittersweet.\u201d\u00a0 For all that I love being near Charlie, I miss the you-all of my former lives.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit like knowing when my sister, Charyl, than Gordy died, that there was no one left to keep me honest when telling of my early years.\u00a0 Well, except for my college roomie, Nons, who recently rediscovered yearbook pictures better left unseen. So I\u2019m starting a new history in a new place at 80.\u00a0 Bittersweet, indeed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I am ready for new adventures, and in every way, every day offers just that..\u00a0 At the moment, I am trying to convince Charlie that I could be his caddy when next he golfs.\u00a0 I could roll like a golf cart and strap his clubs to the back of my chair. He has not said no, which is VERY encouraging\u00a0 But today, when he gets up, we are starting the BIG picture-hanging marathon, which I know requires an enormous outlay of goodwill from everyone. \u00a0 He has promised me one hanging and one re-do, so I am optimistic. LARRY, WHERE ARE YOU IN MY TIME OF NEED? I am also generally encouraged because Charlie was a very good sport and put on his sunglasses to get me a Starbucks medium skim, extra hot latte.\u00a0 Thusly anonymous,he retained his Seattle coffee chops and I slurped my latte right down and didn\u2019t say a word as he did the same, surreptitiously.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All in all, I\u2019d say we\u2019re settling in.\u00a0 Good omen: the street was closed and I rolled right out, just as if Kathy and I were walking and rolling again.\u00a0 And my telephone number — 612.331.7643 — and email address — <\/span>colleen@roseledgebooks.com<\/span><\/a> — remain the same.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Action Picture 2. Waving and pink toes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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