Sounds of Synethesia: The Nostalgic Season

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October 17th, 2011

The start of Fall marks a full year of chronicling my ever-intensifying method of seasonalizing my music by color and feel [Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer]. The only season missing is Christmas (coming in December) which won’t be quite so synesthetic, as most Christmas music sounds red, green and white to everyone, but I’ll post it [...]

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What Yankee Candle Means to Harry Potter: Additions

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July 29th, 2011

Done with the first and second batch, but am happy to take requests and add them here. Here’s the Dursleys. Mr Vernon Dursely Strawberry Buttercream: Yum … an absolutely luscious treat of plump, sweet strawberries buried in rich whipped cream. Mrs Petunia Dursley Bahama Breeze: There’s cool summer refreshment in this tropical blend of pineapple, [...]

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What Yankee Candle Means to Harry Potter: 2

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July 27th, 2011

Harry Potter Characters’ Favorite Yankee Candle Scents (continued) Mrs Molly Weasley Kitchen Spice: This modern blend of sweet orange, clove, ginger and cinnamon is a new take on pantry favorites. Mr Arthur Weasley: Orange Dreamsicle: A favorite childhood summer treat you never outgrow … a cool blend of orange and vanilla ice cream. Bill Weasley: [...]

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What Yankee Candle Means to Harry Potter

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July 27th, 2011

Earlier tonight, a friendly tweet-mention turned into an unexpected project. Ideas churned so quickly that I basically didn’t stop until I had this list done. My method was simply to imagine which Yankee Candle specific characters from the Harry Potter series would be mostly likely to use. There was no purposefull attempt to have the [...]

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Little Did She Know…

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May 17th, 2011

Late at night, Friday April 15, I wrote yet another post about the many businesses in my adopted neighborhood of Lower Queen Anne that were closing their doors. What I could never have predicted, is that only 12 hours later, I would receive notice that the place where I’ve worked since 2006, the entire reason [...]

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Films of Finding Your Voice (without finding a dude)

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May 3rd, 2011

Once again, a faculty member here at MHGS, soon to be renamed The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, asked me to come up with a list of film recommendations for a class. For this list, the goal was finding films that show a young woman coming into her own voice/coming-of-age. Sounds easy at first [...]

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Sounds of Synestheisa: The Gentle Season

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April 23rd, 2011

Spring is here more or less. At least enough for introspection to turn its eyes out to the garden and wait for the tulips to bloom and for love to grow. It’s the season for music of pastel blushes and soft blues tinged with green and yellow tips. While all my seasonal playlists have some [...]

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Of Bears, Brutes and Lovers

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December 28th, 2010

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan My rating: 5 of 5 stars This may be the best book I have ever read or ever will read. Yes, there are my Jane Eyre’s and Jayber Crow’s and JRR Tolkein’s, but there is something about this raw, unrelenting, fairy tale-of-truth that occupies a space no book may be [...]

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A Blessing & A Prayer

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December 9th, 2010

Today was the final day of BTI 501 Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task at MHGS where I had the honor and privilege of assisting Prof. Dwight Friesen these past four months. Here’s the benediction I offered the students at the end of their first term of graduate school. A Blessing A Prayer May you read [...]

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Why Hogwarts Matters to Me

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December 3rd, 2010

After a year of living in New York City on theater-intern pay, I had run out of book money. It’s almost physically painful for me to read and not be able to write in the book I’m reading, so purchasing is always my first choice. But, somewhere around Christmas 2004 I applied for a New [...]

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