https://rebeccapetris.com/blog daily 1.0 2025-01-26 https://rebeccapetris.com/blog/reflections monthly 0.5 2025-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/dd94f941-d874-441a-b0e1-bab236e597e5/899F2540-FF86-483C-BC60-5E6720FC06F7_1_102_o.jpeg Blog - Reflections - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/04a30ef5-a034-4ee3-98f1-8451e07c1702/FE2E5F1F-0426-4040-A30F-7C6A5073539C_1_102_o.jpeg Blog - Reflections - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/d7e8f48a-3ead-4cee-bd97-79942ba7ac88/54B8D28F-A7FC-4994-BF6C-1FBCF6451F2B_1_102_o.jpeg Blog - Reflections - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/6d26bd93-d752-40da-8418-cb2d9706f63b/FFAC21F1-CB90-4EE0-8C1C-8DEA44CE7048_1_102_o.jpeg Blog - Reflections - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://rebeccapetris.com/blog/0u5qtellpzhqergez5y6u34bdpd9bv monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/4dead0cd-a8f6-45aa-af59-d26bcf371309/BUNKER.png Blog - Singing in the bunker - Make it stand out I came to my bunker today to sing. It was the first time in a very long time. The acoustics were incredible. After my last notes, I timed the reverb at five seconds. It felt like the beginning of a new era of singing for me. All the old associations sifted through my fingers and drifted away. I was whole, singing a lavish meal with my whole body, till I was sated, spent and replete, and left. Among others: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 900 miles from home The water is wide Στην ένδοχη παρουσία Πηγή κι βασιλειά μου https://rebeccapetris.com/blog/us monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/519c8d1a-de1c-4f9a-8f54-30c4230c5424/US.png Blog - Us - Make it stand out The photo was just kind of unplanned and whatever, but it’s growing on me. It was an incredible day. Mount Baker is peeking over the driftwood. For once I actually looked up the tides, and the tide was out so we walked a long, long way. We only turned back when we ran out of time for me to get us back home before dark. Here we are Where have we been? We’ve been Married for thirty years Wow. He’s been Ten years in assisted living Then One year of covid with me and our child Then One year of covid with me after they went away to college Where are we going? I am thankful that we only have to take one step at a time on a beach. https://rebeccapetris.com/blog/growth-rings monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/80282b33-830a-46c9-a565-2993135bf232/Rings6.png Blog - Growth rings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/dcd0e8d6-38bb-4a97-b644-665ffcd0621d/Rings4.png Blog - Growth rings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1985d449-c09b-4aad-af85-8eefaafe7548/Rings1.png Blog - Growth rings - Make it stand out Sarah and I talk a lot about growth and what it means and how it works The subject of tree rings came up because trees grow slowly I found some rings on the beach and I thought some more and we talked some more It was so exciting I found myself digging into scientific journals to understand because really I wanted to know more about how and when and why we grow and, y’know just get more light on the whole life and death thing I read about xylem cell formation and lignification and heartwood formation and because that made me think about my own body I read some more about apoptosis as opposed to necrosis! then I read about dormancy and which trees really go dormant and why and which ones only sort of and which ones not at all and what they do instead life and death are clearly not binary states we host programmed death all the time our entire cellular structure is replaced we are always dying and hosting and nurturing new life But the heartwood part was perhaps the most fascinating for me. Because it’s dead (the accumulation of so many cell deaths after they laid down lignins) but yet it will not decay or lose strength (I read) so long as the outer layers are intact and it is “in many ways as strong as steel” So everything I have learned in life many things along the way have become outdated, replaced with new things I learned Yet the process of learning and re-learning and unlearning and learning some more maybe that’s the heartwood the current consciousness is the live outer layers the rings tell the stories though they may never be fully seen by another human after all we aren’t all cut down we don’t all wash up on a beach sitting there ready to be photographed and talked about. yet, we are seen. we are. https://rebeccapetris.com/blog/jy802cln6zutkpjy5m2xtdxkaw6t1j monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1627275780983-5V1BIKDQCB09NEPTXZEL/IMG_9842.jpeg Blog - Complexity and change https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1627277265438-FZS5QHD0KXR4W8LK6W67/IMG_9875.JPG Blog - Complexity and change - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://rebeccapetris.com/blog/ck2pta7you3v1ttgsvm9qox49ksg2y monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1615765266064-M0SO9N78WY1A0Q1L9BCM/IMG_9309.jpeg Blog - Life partner He is who he is and he is comfortable in his skin. He is sentimental. The way he sports that green scarf (which Chaidie knitted at least ten years ago) reminds me of my dad. One Christmas when I was little and made all my gifts, I gave him a jar with a cover crocheted from some cheap acrylic multicolor yarn. It was astonishing to me to find, decades later, that he still had that relic of the 1970’s on his dresser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1615765996622-KO2WGY52AKKTO1459LS9/IMG_9320.jpeg Blog - Life partner He keeps going. Sometimes it’s cold and wet. He doesn’t always know the destination. Or how much longer till the next rest stop. But he takes heart and keeps putting one foot in front of the other, no matter what. No one will ever know what it has cost him in his hardest times. No one ever knows the burden someone carries merely from their gait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1615766128677-TN1ET8X130TI445H50TQ/IMG_9321.jpeg Blog - Life partner He stops, and looks around, and notices. 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From a distance it didn’t look special. Just a spot of color amidst a lot of groundcover. Up close, it’s on fire. https://rebeccapetris.com/blog/j8gag9rtb04p60c5krojwbm030kcoo monthly 0.5 2020-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1606972099929-N7I6K5LQKHTE0RFW7TFN/IMG_8854.jpeg Blog - It’s cold in here. 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Then I remember.. It’s a mushroom I came across on the Ancient Groves trail by the Sol Duc river where Panos and I were walking last Sunday. I snapped a pic for Chaidie, whose expansive love of plants extends to fungi. But… it’s just so large and yellow! https://rebeccapetris.com/blog/visiting-the-bunker monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1604107184476-B4C49NKIV4J14WIFX8WB/IMG_8409.jpeg Blog - Visiting the bunker Today was the first time I have been up to the bunkers at Fort Worden since before the pandemic. I forgot my water bottle in the car, so I couldn’t sing for long after walking up the hill, but I sang Pieta Signore and Down in the Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1604107366795-479PWO40IPQ9JNIA2YCO/IMG_8418.jpeg Blog - Visiting the bunker The color of everything is so rich this time of year. The madrona trees are always very exciting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1604107407866-B6082PG34S7MPRPSMEDB/IMG_8407.jpeg Blog - Visiting the bunker My bunker. It is “U” shaped. There are four of these bunkers in a row - this is the third in the series. But this one, for whatever mysterious reasons of physics, has phenomenal acoustical properties. When you walk into the left side and go about halfway down the straightaway, there is a perfect spot to sing. The sound is mesmerizing. Everything you sing is deep and rich and echoey. It rings. You may hear sound for several seconds after you end the last note. But it varies. Every single time is different. The weather, the humidity, the wind, they all play a role. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1604107440830-HSTY2ROUCJI1460D3MBP/IMG_8405.jpeg Blog - Visiting the bunker On the way down the hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9cb408d9bed94563b1d698/1604107478528-DMG8IMQGRVV5DE83DYZ3/IMG_8401.jpeg Blog - Visiting the bunker There is a wonderful old apple tree in front of the woodworking school at the foot of the hill. These apples made me so hungry today. 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