If you build it, they will come
Folks, I’ve arrived! That piece that came out in the Advocate earlier this week did indeed flush some detritus out from under the bushes. My first ad hominem homophobic attack (in seven years of...
View ArticleWeekend bonus shot (Monday edition), 04.15.13
View from below, Memorial Stadium, Berkeley, CA. I was heading to an event up there, on the balcony of the top floor of Cal’s remodeled Memorial Stadium, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Having...
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Robert Indiana sculpture, W54th & 6th, NYC. Whenever I hear the sound of an ambulance, I pause and do a little tonglen. It’s a Buddhist meditation practice, intended to take in pain and send out...
View ArticleFace as canvas
Body crayon-faced boy on swing, Berkeley, CA. Courtesy his sister, who knows whereof she colors all over someone’s face, based on personal experimentation. I can’t say what in the Sam Hill they were...
View ArticleWeekend bonus shot, 05.12.13
Happy truck washer, Berkeley, CA. This time I convinced him to get outside the vehicle as I washed it (last time: he stayed inside and listened to a Sondheim musical). He had that huge spray nozzle...
View ArticleGodot, schmodot
Waiting for Mama, Berkeley, CA Mama went on a phenomenally unusual (for her) week-long meditation retreat last week. Since she gave birth to the first of these kids, she had never taken that much...
View ArticleOf ravens and stories
A storytelling of ravens, Belmont, CA. “Ravens give me the creeps,” Suzanne said. She was among the trio of angelic preschool teachers who ushered our kids into their first understanding of...
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