Kate McDermott Langsdorf

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Three trauma responses in a trenchcoat đź“ŤWestern WA

a smiling person with long red hair and sunglasses holds a ballot outside a Washington ballot box, at an awkward selfie angle
Sam Elliot as Union Brig. General John Buford in the 1993 super-mega-epic film, “Gettysburg.”
The Tower card reversed in the classic Rider–Waite–Smith deck. Right-side-up folks fall dramatically from a tower. From this view it looks like Fruma-Sarah is waving her hands in the air and warning against wearing her pearls.
Newsprint text reads, "Last year $3000 was the amount the budget for the expense of improvements at street intersections, but it was found at the end of the year that there was a deficit of about $3800. This year the deficit will be almost seven times that amount. But the wonderful growth of the city more than warrants the extensive expenditures, which are being made in street improvements, and it is not thought that there will be any bad effect from the large deficit which the city will have to make good."
Text reads "Strong wind gusts Monday" over weather map of PNW showing damned high wind speeds, including 50-55 mph in Tacoma and 40-45 in Seattle.
Kate at the box in Ford’s Theatre where the thing happened. You know which thing.
Stained glass rooster beneath the toes of St. Peter