italy won with a head butt!

narration to be posted later on in the day...cap-a-pie \cap-uh-PEE\, adverb: from head to foot; at all points.

i took the bike out for a ride. ended up on barnes road -- towards beaverton [beautiful yet tragik ;)] i'm told barnes turns into burnside, hmmmmm... its good to know these things.

something random -- the portland hotel [once stood in pioneer square] -- so the hotel began its days as the pride of the city, it was more than just a building, for it acquired over the years a character in keeping with portland's traditional disdain for ostentation -- excerpt out of will martin's pioneer square sketchbook.

the way i see it, the good life is the middle way, between ambition and compassion, between action and reflection, between company and solitude, between hedonism and abstinence, between passion and judgement, between the cup of coffee and the glass of wine...