meant it for bad, God meant it for good. Although not finding the Space Needle would not likely ever to be compared with a Today was the last day of vacation in Seattle. The weather has been absolutely glorious. We had planned to go down to Seattle Center to take a look again at the Space Needle, but our ever-present great sense of direction led us the opposite direction and we ended up at Pioneer Square which is part of the very oldest part of the city. We happened upon a bookstore...Elliott Bay Book Company, a locally owned huge store with lots of nooks and crannies. There was a fairly serious collection of architecture and interior design, and I purchased a book written by Charles and Ray Eames' grandson, a retrospective of their lives and work, as well as one of those wonderful Taeschen books which offer so much for so little money--this one on Scandinavian design. Cana bought Tom Brokaw's book of essays on the 1960s. Even though we both have visited the Borders and Barnes and Noble since being here, it was just great to find a really find independently owned store. And after we had found it, I kept thinking about Joseph and his brothers, how they sold him into slavery (a bad thing) but because he had been able to become Pharoah's right hand man, he was able to provide them with grain (a good thing.) Theybraggy son of Israel, and Pioneer Square is not Egypt or or a grain silo or the promised land, it was a neat thing that even though we went the wrong way, it turned out to be the right way....
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