Pat McDonough:  

CLASS OF 1964
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Tacoma, WA
Tacoma, WA
Tacoma, WA
Wenatchee, WA

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Pat is from Lakewood, Washington. She is married. Her schools include Clover Park High School, Columbia Elementary School, Hudtloff Junior High School. She later attended University of Puget Sound. She works(ed) at Grandstaff Library, Pierce County Library. Pat's interests include Bookstores, Sleeping, The New York Cosmos, Seattle Seahawks, Hands Of A Hero, Mine that Bird, MBIS Ph GCH Classique Chanlou's Dreamgirl "Cerina". Music she likes includes CHIC STREET MAN, La Mejor Cancion De John Lennon y Del Mundo ES **-Woman-**, Adelphian Concert Choir. Books she likes include PBJ and me, The Lord of the Rings, Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Movies she likes include The Shawshank Redemption, Best in Show, E.T. (movie). TV shows she likes include Person of Inte...Expand for more
rest, Warehouse 13, KCTS 9. One of Pat's favorite quotes is:"Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky. -Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly You can get more stinkin' from thinkin' than you can from drinkin' but to FEEL is for REAL." Joe Miller Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me. And something inside me clicked. I realised, as I watched him fight for breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is important to me. - Paul McCartney". More about Pat:"Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky. -Chippewa, trans. Robert Bly".
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If not my favorite Rumi/Barks poem, it's certainly up there on the list:
You've seen a herd of goats
going down to the water.
The lame and dreamy goat
brings up the rear.
There are worried faces about that one,
but now they
Springtime, welcome.

watercolor by Emile Nolde
It is Spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
--Rilke
   (painting: Poppies by Gustave Klimt)
I think it is more interesting to be with somebody who still has his or her wilderness territory — and by that I don’t mean bleak, burned-out, damaged areas where wounding has occurred; rather, I mean genuine wilderness. Up
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Have a lovely, moon-watching night dear friends
A Blessing
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"May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers b
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“This existence of ours is as transient as Autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by like a torrent down a s
I empty myself with light
Until I become morning.
- Charles Wright
Admit something:

Everyone you see, you say to them, “love me”
of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise 
someone would call the cops.

Still though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
why not become
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Day 4's contribution in black and white. No explanation of the photos, no challenge for others to participate. Join if you'd like, such a wonderful medium.
Fog has become an every morning occurrence. So peaceful.
Fog has become an every morning occurrence. So peaceful.
Frankie in for his early morning snuggle. Mostly it's how we greet the day.
Day6 of black &white picture posts. No explanation, join in if it seems like fun!
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