Seize the Sun
A Seattle Mantra lives on in Yakima
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3 min readMay 16, 2023
You learn to seize sunshine in Seattle. As a teen in the late 1960s, if the clouds parted and the temperature peaked at 60 degrees, my newly licensed friend and I slipped bikinis over goosebump skin and cruised the lake.
In my mind’s eye, we circled Lake Tapps, in a yellow Corvette Stingray, hair sailing behind us, voluminous breasts overflowing our…