Present: something happened while I was basking in a stolen moment of calm sitting with my friend, Yoko, at Lake Merritt. A man in an electric wheelchair came whizzing by but got caught on something that totally derailed his forward movement, twisting him up in the bushes right in front of us. He dropped the… Continue reading Remembering Bill
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Last Year This Day Was A Thursday
March 12, 2020, was the last in-person meeting of my live sound class at the Ocean campus of City College of San Francisco in the BEMA department. It was our midterm week and we all gathered in Studio A to discuss next steps of taking the class online (remote) so that we could all Shelter-In-Place.… Continue reading Last Year This Day Was A Thursday
Patio Life_Episode One
The birds LOVE it here. I hear a minimum of 9 different bird songs, tweets, and chits (though I know I’ve miscounted–there are dozens). The sonorous singing is mixed with the march of humans in machines from afar with the occasional human within 200 or so yards. Electricity lines buzz. A crow caws. A human… Continue reading Patio Life_Episode One
Swimming Saves
Reset A pod of 22 Pelicans flies beyond the opening to Aquatic Park where Alcatraz sits off in the distance. I stop mid-stroke to watch them soar and then swoop down low along the water. The beauty in their flight causes me to pause. Seagulls swoosh past in erratic solo flight directly above me, one… Continue reading Swimming Saves
Desktop Traveling
Some days I wake up with a bit of positivity that helps to engage the creative flow inside me. Today was not such a day. I awoke with a heaviness even though I’ve taken a break from the news (as much as one can) and for once didn’t have dreams peppered with COVID. So, why… Continue reading Desktop Traveling
More of This, Less of That
Today, I post about the things that I’m including in my routine so that I can focus on the positive transformation of everything around me, including me, and our planet. So, I’ve compiled a series of images that represent what I’m focusing on as “more of this” with a nod to the ugliness “less of… Continue reading More of This, Less of That