I Love Olympia

As I walked to the coffee shop today to get my mid-morning snack of pumpkin bread, I admired what a lovely day it is. A slight haze of clouds keeps the sun from being too bright and the temperature from getting too hot. I was on my way to a locally-owned coffee shop to buy a bagel made by a locally-owned bagel company. Truly Olympian!

As I passed the alley behind my building, I noticed that a teenage boy was standing next to the wall with headphones on, merrily spray-painting graffiti on the wall. How is nobody but me seeing this, I wondered. What gutsy kid is out doing graffiti in the middle of the day? And then I remembered: the wall behind my building is a city-sanctioned official graffiti wall. Anyone is allowed to graffiti there, and when the wall gets too full, the city paints it over in white again so that there will be room for new graffiti. How cool is that?

I love Olympia.