A lot of days, I get really annoyed with Seattle.
The gentrification, insane housing prices, armies of Amazon employees that hog the sidewalk in their $200 jeans, destruction of music venues, loss of egalitarian places like the Hurricane...
But some days, I fall in love with it all over again. Like today. Marching in solidarity with 125,000 of my closest friends under an almost sunny sky in January.
Families, women, men, big union guys from the SEIU dressed entirely in pink. People singing, hugging strangers, being irreverent, dancing badly and walking peacefully together for a million different reasons from a million different points of view.
Shout out to the Seattle I fell in love with 22 years ago - you are still here.
You smelly, weird-haired, tattooed, pierced, musicians, freaks, anarchists, queers, artists, feminists, radicals, writers, nerds, outcasts....
WE are all still here. And, apparently, we need to get out more.
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