Leon Seaman
@leonseaman.bsky.social
An immigrant, now a citizen, concerned for our democracy in the face of Trump's blatant cruelty and criminality!
No Kings! The most basic tenet of the American creed, and our message to this Republican Congress:
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
No Kings! The most basic tenet of the American creed, and our message to this Republican Congress:
Our first snow on the Cascades this past weekend. It was a really dry winter, and the summers are just getting warmer!
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our first snow on the Cascades this past weekend. It was a really dry winter, and the summers are just getting warmer!
Nature doesn't lie! Our autumn crocuses are in full flower and some leaves on neighborhood trees are beginning to turn! Fall is coming! I love feeling that cooler nip in the air, even as the sun continues to shine. My favorite season!
September 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Nature doesn't lie! Our autumn crocuses are in full flower and some leaves on neighborhood trees are beginning to turn! Fall is coming! I love feeling that cooler nip in the air, even as the sun continues to shine. My favorite season!
When I hear false narratives about the history of racism in our country, I just read the original covenants to our house (from 1943). Read for yourself (middle paragraph). Racism was--and for some still is--all too real! Isn't it better to acknowledge it and deal with it than to try to deny it?
May 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When I hear false narratives about the history of racism in our country, I just read the original covenants to our house (from 1943). Read for yourself (middle paragraph). Racism was--and for some still is--all too real! Isn't it better to acknowledge it and deal with it than to try to deny it?
A squirrel clings to a branch of our blossoming hawthorn tree, warming up in the sun on a cool morning in Seattle.
May 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A squirrel clings to a branch of our blossoming hawthorn tree, warming up in the sun on a cool morning in Seattle.
The term 'woke' is used derisively by conservatives, many of whom call themselves 'Christian.' I was once a Christian myself and taught New Testament. 'Woke' is in fact a thoroughly Christian idea and term. But neither Trump nor his followers read their texts thoughtfully, if at all!
April 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The term 'woke' is used derisively by conservatives, many of whom call themselves 'Christian.' I was once a Christian myself and taught New Testament. 'Woke' is in fact a thoroughly Christian idea and term. But neither Trump nor his followers read their texts thoughtfully, if at all!
Well, spring has sprung in Seattle! My neighbor's cherry tree is now in full bloom. Beautiful!
April 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Well, spring has sprung in Seattle! My neighbor's cherry tree is now in full bloom. Beautiful!
Mount Rainier/Tahoma looms over Seattle at dusk! Like Mount Fuji and Tokyo, it is almost synonymous with our city. It is a reminder that we sit on the same 'ring of fire' around the edge of the Pacific and also that, as they say in New Zealand, we live in an 'edgy world.'
March 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Mount Rainier/Tahoma looms over Seattle at dusk! Like Mount Fuji and Tokyo, it is almost synonymous with our city. It is a reminder that we sit on the same 'ring of fire' around the edge of the Pacific and also that, as they say in New Zealand, we live in an 'edgy world.'
After the cool, wet, and windy weather of the last few days, we have record high 75-degree temperatures in Seattle today! Nice, of course, but one can't help wondering what summer will bring this year, as Earth continues to warm!
Love the cherry blossom, though!
Love the cherry blossom, though!
March 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
After the cool, wet, and windy weather of the last few days, we have record high 75-degree temperatures in Seattle today! Nice, of course, but one can't help wondering what summer will bring this year, as Earth continues to warm!
Love the cherry blossom, though!
Love the cherry blossom, though!
Yesterday we had wind and rain, and snow in the Cascades, but it hasn't stopped my neighbor's cherry trees from blossoming. Last winter equinox we had a rainbow right over our street. Welcome glimpses of beauty!
March 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Yesterday we had wind and rain, and snow in the Cascades, but it hasn't stopped my neighbor's cherry trees from blossoming. Last winter equinox we had a rainbow right over our street. Welcome glimpses of beauty!
Lincoln was not the first to look beyond the Constitution's compromise on slavery to the Declaration of Independence's 'all men are created equal' as the true and ever-more-inclusive spirit of America, but his evocation of it at Gettysburg is the most memorable, as generations of us have discovered!
March 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Lincoln was not the first to look beyond the Constitution's compromise on slavery to the Declaration of Independence's 'all men are created equal' as the true and ever-more-inclusive spirit of America, but his evocation of it at Gettysburg is the most memorable, as generations of us have discovered!
New snow on the Cascades. Although it's officially Spring, Winter is having a late fling here in Seattle! Seems to have a harder time letting go the last few years!
March 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New snow on the Cascades. Although it's officially Spring, Winter is having a late fling here in Seattle! Seems to have a harder time letting go the last few years!
I immigrated to the USA in 1976, the Bicentennial. I was from Britain; people told me, 'We're a republic! We don't bow to a king or queen!'
Now the Republican Party grovels to a wannabe king, a caricature of a man hostile to democracy and common human decency! What happened to the party of Lincoln?
Now the Republican Party grovels to a wannabe king, a caricature of a man hostile to democracy and common human decency! What happened to the party of Lincoln?
March 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I immigrated to the USA in 1976, the Bicentennial. I was from Britain; people told me, 'We're a republic! We don't bow to a king or queen!'
Now the Republican Party grovels to a wannabe king, a caricature of a man hostile to democracy and common human decency! What happened to the party of Lincoln?
Now the Republican Party grovels to a wannabe king, a caricature of a man hostile to democracy and common human decency! What happened to the party of Lincoln?