PNW girlie
aspirations of a new Seattle transplant
After leaving California a place I called home for 20 years I came to Seattle with anxiety and hope in search of something new also to appease my loving husband who hates sunshine and yearns for in person interaction at work I did not expect my first love in Seattle to be a grocery store But the aisles of fresh baked pineapple buns and egg tarts at T&T Had me going back every week with my shopping bags filled to the brim I also love the local library that has free workshops in their Makerspace and where I met a mother and her teenage daughter from Thailand that reminded me of me and my mom when we first moved to the States And oh the greenery! Maybe it’s me trying to assimilate and become a PNW hippie But I find myself enjoying Rain drops on the window and hazy distant tree shadows Panorama of Mt. Rainer and Lake Washington when driving down I-90 on a sunny day The breathtaking forest view from the IKEA Renton parking lot Rows of multi-color tulips blooming in Skagit Valley I feel myself healing in nature and my creativity slowly flowing again like a stream of river Here’s to becoming a PNW girlie who thrives in comfort and cozy through art and books and walks under trees she stays in touch with her spirituality and finds her inner peace Call me a PNW girlie in my flowy tee and baggy jeans We are shedding expectations and hard edges because softness is the new strong Did you say something? I can’t hear your Slack pings because Mother Nature is calling So I am leaving to become a PNW girlie


Love this! I can hear the mourning, the delight, the hope
This is so good! Make me want to be PNW girlie too
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