Picturepocket's Blog

Category: Portland

  • Does Size Matter?

    With all this talk of Trump taking Greenland, people have commented on how the size of Greenland on the globe looks different than the flat map representation. It’s only a fifth of the size of the US instead of this massive thing. I pulled out our handy-dandy globe we purchased while homeschooling during Covid-19 and…

  • Going Home

    My travel home from Florida to Oregon was fraught. My cousin and I were both flying out of the same airport, so we mindfully arrived two hours early. So demure. This gave us time to eat together and browse the shops. We said our goodbyes, and I leisurely strolled through security to arrive at my…

  • Plea for Peace

    I don’t have a full comprehension of either situation, but my heart is moved by the suffering.

  • Reality vs Photoshop

    It’s the lifestyle equivalent of sucking in your gut.

  • 2022

    Time to update your New Year’s resolutions.

  • A Plea

    We have come too far to fail now.

  • Kids Party Schedule

    7:15 Child wakes you up, “It’s my birthday!” 8:00 Make everyone a “good breakfast.” Everyone only eats two bites. 8:30 Frost and decorate cake layer baked the night before. Abandon ambitious second tier. 9:00 Load car with half contents of refrigerator, craft, picnic and game supplies for “simple” outdoor party. 9:30 Swing by Dollar Tree…

  • The Persistence of Pain

    “Where are you folks from? Come by to see our pain?”

  • The Tale of Two Walls

    The purpose is not for contemplative reflection for sins of times past, but urgency for a current community crisis. “Never again” is right now.