Year

This quote is all over the internet - so I'm not sure if, indeed, it can be credited to Physicist Dr. Ted McIrvine, whose voice uttered it during Friday's All Things Considered...

There's no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit...

And isn't it fitting, then, that Time Magazine would name it's Person of the Year: The Protester... A noun, not quite a person, not quite a thing. And not a one.

Who actually gets the credit for the Arab Spring, for Occupy Wall Street, for the protests, the resistence, the solidarity, and the calls against disenfranchisement in Athens and in Moscow...

Not a one.

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Another heartwarming night, last night, packed with endearing performances from local musicians for a good cause (raising money for Coalition on Temporary Shelters)...

 

And here's a few other seen scenes... Days ago inside Hybrid Moments in Ferndale (a record/clothing/alt-culture shop that regularly hosts live music events inside their humble, cozy space):