Sequin Spill

We have been tracking (double meaning) with interest the progress of a spill of sequins. "A spill of sequins?" you say, with an upward intonation.

Yes, at the Jefferson Avenue entrance to an alley between 4th and 5th, someone spilled a package of sequins of mixed colors and sizes, and since we go downtown fairly often, and pass this corner most times that we go down, we have been able to observe the sequins spreading gradually up and down Jefferson, and north and south along 4th and 5th Streets.

[Update 1: Yesterday, we saw someone bending over the site of the sequin spill, apparently about to take a photograph of it. We'd have stopped to compare notes with her, but we were pressed for time.]

[Update 2: Today, we observed our first sequins west of the railroad tracks -- they are getting around, like animal-borne seeds.]

Priceless Moment

We went to the Winter Market this morning, and saw a group of people out front holding signs reading FREE HUGS. Naturally, we took them up on it, and were happy to accept their cards, inviting us to join them at Northwest Hills Community Church for their young couples' ministry (nice of them to invite us, in spite of not being in their target demographic :-).

By the time we left, John had rubbed all of their shoulders, and we had bought them a plate of crepes from the crepeurs who were selling them by the door.

We talked with the huggers briefly about Ernest Mann's "Priceless Economic System", which proposes that people give away as much of what they produce as they can give or can bring themselves to give -- we're totally in favor of a revolution, especially one that does not involve shooting people, taking over the government or even organizing a movement.