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I met Bradley Bergey in Seattle where we worked together for two years at the Children’s Institute for Learning Differences on Mercer Island.

Around the same time, we each moved from Seattle to different parts of the world : I moved to Alaska and he moved to Mexico City. Over the next 4-5 years, we visited each other regular and I had the good fortune of watching him evolve from a naturally gifted painter into a focused and even more talented artist.

To boot, he’s an amazing educator, the kind of teacher I’m jealous his students get to have. World-traveled, intuitive, imaginative, playful and wise beyond his years - he’s a bona fide compliment to the practice.

Recently, Bergey was featured in Art and Letter, a monthly webzine focused on Architecture, Art and Design.

You can read the interview in its entirety here, if you likey.

He’s our pal and we’re very proud of him : )

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Pollee and I recently returned from our old neighborhood in Juneau, Alaska for our pals’ [Jorden and Bret] wedding.

Juneau saw some of its finest weather that week and a pod of humpbacks graced us with their presence all weekend.

This is the best clip of them all - as a few of us stood on the shore at Adlersheim these beauties hung out in the bay at the closest range many of us have ever witnessed - the end of the clip shows Topaz standing within mere feet as they swim by.

Thanks, Ryan, for having your digi with you!

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Pollee and i hadn’t yet been to see a movie in a theater in 2008.

How suhweeet that we waited…

Last night, we drove out to see The Dark Knight at IMAX.

Easily thee best action-hero movie made so far.

It topped $400 million last week. Will it beat Titanic’s $600 mil?

At $14.50 a ticket, it’s not cheap to see a flick at IMAX but totally worth it, especially considering tix to regular, non-6-story-high-screen-theaters are $10. It truly was an EXPERIENCE.

Ledger’s role will be huge shoes to fill in the next one but, all told, the film was one of the greatest ever IMO.

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Surely, there are many people who strongly disagreed with his views. More conservative folks especially would rather he hadn’t reached the levels of success he did. He made a career out of stirring the pot and providing balance to the hard right and its overwhelming amount of political correctness and closed-mindedness about the world.

Known as the guy who took black humor to new heights, George Carlin also left a footprint on the media world, having ridiculed television for the seven dirty words you can’t hear.

In minutes, he could make us all question what we’ve just always been told.

That’s scary for a lot of folks.

For others, it’s just good exercise :

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John Lee Hooker talks about it like no one else can :

Our hearts and souls go out to all of those suffering loss from the floods in Iowa this season [Darin this means especially you and Amy] and we send our best juju to help you recover and return to a life that more closely resembles what it was like before the waters rose over the banks.

Sincerely,

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