#columbiacity

#columbiacitycookies #cookies #cookiesofinstagram #vegancookies #vegan #glutenfree #spicedgingermolasses #molasses #molassescookies #plantbased #noanimalsharmed #madewithlove #homemade #columbiacity #columbiacityseattle #seattle #seattlevegans #pnw (at Columbia City, Seattle) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpwwR2GAOKv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iuzzw3f2v7it

Rainbows in the CC! #dailyphoto #ColumbiaCity (at Columbia City, Seattle)

Columbia City, Oregon by austin granger https://flic.kr/p/2odJZgH

Library architecture appreciation post — Seattle Public Library buildings are mix of historic & modern buildings. The historic buildings are my favorites, and one of them is this beautiful Columbia Branch building from early 20th century, listed on National Register of Historic Places. So much beauty & history. It feels walking into a museum. What’s the architecture of library buildings in your city? 🤓✌️📚

Thank you, Wabash College (and Karen Linn Handley!), for this lovely shout out to my mom Susie Sexton in the latest alumni magazine. She and my father Don Sexton loved Wabash and the positive and profound impact that the experience of attending and, later, working there had upon me. I still remember vividly the day they dropped me off for freshman year, her standing in front of Sparks Hall (right after a shutter on the stately building crashed off its hinges to the ground) exclaiming with pride, “Go and have fun! Enjoy this!” That exhortation *may* have been an immediate response to me tearfully asking them to take me back home. As I understand, my mom herself cried during the entire car ride back to Columbia City when they left me that day, but I never got one hint of her own anxiety about setting me on my path. To be honest, I was even a bit shocked that she seemed so ready to get rid of me!  My mom had an incredible superpower to be the eye of a hurricane in the truly important moments and to exemplify bravery when others were caving around her. That takes an incredible energy, selflessness, and love - it also takes a toll on the person who sets that intrepid tone day after day, year after year. The older I get the more I realize what a high wire act that can be. I will always be grateful for that quality my mother had and how I benefited from it. I’m glad this particular issue’s theme is “gratitude” as that is what I’m feeling right now. P.S. Please check out Editor Kim Johnson’s excellent frontispiece - she nails with candor and warmth and wit the anxiety we all are feeling these days and how moments of pause and of appreciation can re-center us. @wabashcollege @karenhandley58 #wabashcollege #family #gratitude #columbiacity #indiana (at Wabash College) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX-G8fQD_GG/?utm_medium=tumblr

My grandma Edna Duncan had an inimitable way of decorating for the #holidays. If I were to give her style a descriptor, I’d call it “how to avoid putting up a tree while still seeming festive for the grandkids by utilizing one’s fireplace, some tinsel and garland, and assorted marginally Christmas-related items.” There was a nurse doll (still scratching my head about that one), a handful of glass ornaments, some mid-century flocked reindeer, a half-drained snow globe or two, and THIS little item. (Well, not THIS very one pictured, but you get the idea.) I’m guessing some liquor vendor gave this novelty promo item to my novelty-promo-item-loving grandpa Roy Duncan (this apple doesn’t fall very far from THAT tree) when he ran #ColumbiaCity’s “Blue Bell” (Wrangler Jeans) factory. I’m not sure how/if it survived years of inquisitive grandkids (myself included) pushing the lid down off sequence, shoving fingers in the automaton pups’ mouths, and plugging and unplugging and plugging it back in. I also don’t know where the original ended up, but I decided late one night the other week to see if I could find a replacement on eBay. Lo and behold, my insomnia-fueled nite owl online shopping adventures struck gold. And $150 later (Merry Christmas to ME!), this very cute and, yes, incredibly annoying piece has been added to our own eclectic decor. Let the holiday traditions live on! Now, when and if I start gifting bottles of Old Spice cologne with checks lovingly affixed (not to mention wearing little straw hats), you’ll know my transformation into Edna Duncan is complete! (at Saline, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX2tWhFsNuO/?utm_medium=tumblr

Kickin it at The Patio to try and turn it into The Plaza… #ColumbiaCity has it going on! More public gathering spaces please! And with live music! You have been missed! #unsinkableheavies and #lastminutemaybes and a bunch of neighbors and music freaks diggin the grooves and even a little 99 Luftballons! #seattlemusic #musicforthepeople (at Columbia City Historic District (Seattle)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVI3xNEJCkW/?utm_medium=tumblr

Fun, quick visit with my dad Don Sexton in Columbia City, Indiana. Had lunch at their new Tokyo restaurant. The food and service were divine. Highly recommend 🥰 #family #dining #columbiacity #indiana (at Columbia City, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTu4hanvgFZ/?utm_medium=tumblr