Deck Comings and Goings --- Day 3/28

Walk: Mindful Body
Distance: 10 Blocks and take yoga class

As Ciwt readers may recall, she was concerned where Andy (the gardener)'s latest arrival to her(?) deck was to be placed.  

She walked home from yoga in the continuing rain (!) this afternoon,  looked out the window, and

  

found the new site revealed  .  The depleted Rhodie that was in this spot is gone and her cute, hopefully just dormant Japanese maple is safe and sound on the big deck. I think when the vine grows, 'we'll'  attach them with their little lavender flowers to the trellis.

Slope-what? --- Day 3/27

Walk: Mindful Body
Distance: 10 blocks and teach yoga class

So here come the Winter Olympics.  Once having thought of herself as an athlete Ciwt is amazed every year to see competition in sports that didn't even exist when she was particularly active.  The various snowboarding events like Slopestyle come to mind.  She does remember the infancy of that sport when she was living in Sun Valley and a group of guys in the yard next to her spent day after day doing flips, leaping from roofs and making other potentially very hazardous moves.  In Summer?  With skies on?   I asked around; nobody had the vaguest idea what those guys were up to.

Then came winter and they turned out to be the first ever competitive snowboarders - an entirely new sport. Not for the faint of heart.

 

Post Rain Ramble --- Day 3/26

Walk: Laurel Village for a rain hat at Emily Lee
Distance: 2 miles and small home yoga practice

After a blessed 24 hour rain during our drought, Ciwt went out to inspect her little deck world.


Found that Andy (the gardener) made another stealth appearance leaving a new vine.


It's cute.  But I'm a little concerned where it is going to be planted.


Maybe here in place of the camellia. Anywhere is fine just as long as he hasn't decided my sweet Japanese maple
isn't going to make it, and this is his silent way of preparing me.

Then walked back inside, surveyed the post-greenhouse window euphorbia and some lilies:

  

And out onto the wonderfully wet streets where I saw a green/green house I thought didn't work at all and then noticed the one next to it is a little gem.

   What a feast for the eyes is San Francisco (after the rain).

'Landmarks' --- Day 3/25

Walk: Hi Tech Nails, Trader Joe's, Mindful Body
Distance: 1 Mile and take yoga class

Some rain beginning to cool off Crissy Field and beyond while the question of whether Lucas will accept the Presidio's offer to build his museum on an alternative site in the Presidio heats up.

All, not just Lucas's the proposals were rejected in favor of seeing how the site looks/feels/is used when the extensive work now in progress is completed. Too bad the media make it look like a Presidio Trust against Lucas kind of thing because it is not.

Ciwt hopes he and his Norman Rockwell and Hollywood memorabilia collection will decide to site themselves in the Presidio near his Digital Center and the increasingly beautiful park he built from bare ground.

But, who knows?  The history of every landmark, no matter how ancient, is the history of a tomb, wall, statute, museum, sports arena that almost wasn't.

http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2014/02/05/presidio-dangles-new-site-for-george-lucas-museum/

Meet Mowgli -- Day 3/24

Walk: Union Square/Moxie Parlour, Mindful Body
Distance: 1.5 miles and teach yoga class

Every yoga and massage center needs a dog.  Probably not; and maybe some people are horrified.
But at The Mindful Body we have and love Mowgli who came with his Mom when he took up less than a quarter of the front desk seat he sits in in the picture.  Sometimes you find him there or other times he patrols through the hallways (but not the studios or massage rooms he somehow knows).  Very nice guy with good manners.



Here he is with (some of) his Mom

Good News Today --- Day 3/23

Walk: JCCSF, Trader Joe's
Distance: 2 miles and take yoga class

PROJECT UPDATE 2/3/2014

The Presidio Trust Board of Directors announces that it has unanimously decided not to pursue any of the proposals to build a cultural institution at the Mid-Crissy Field site.

Ciwt says Yay!!   She (and it sounds like many others) wrote the Presidio Trust requesting that they postpone any decisions about a huge, spectacular part of our Presidio until the very extensive changes (new greenway, more connections to the waterfront, restored wetlands, youth education camp, and more )now in progress are complete and new use and traffic patterns naturally evolve.  In a few years the site will be even more glorious, and perhaps then it will be determined that the best 'cultural institution' on the designated eight acres is Nature Itself.

How Totally, Totally neat and fine that the Presidio Trust Board of Directors saw it the same way, and had the strength and vision to wait even voting down the likes of George Lucas and his supporters (Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Jerry Brown and a host of powerful others). Wonderful!!!


http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Presidio-Trust-shoots-down-George-Lucas-plan-5201301.php#photo-5742542

Sad News Today --- Day 3/22

Walk: No
Distance: 0 but a little bit of home yoga during the Super Bowl

Thanks for many, many enjoyable hours in the theater.  Love, Ciwt


  

 

    

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Important Steps --- Day 3/21

Walk: Mindful Body, AMC Van Ness Theater (Frozen - Again)
Distance: 3 miles and Take yoga class

So the big event for Ciwt today was going to her former Saturday class as a student.  It went well; another success of a graceful transition.  And walking away to go see Frozen for a second time it felt good to have taken not given a class.  Just felt more free, and I'm glad I took the step.

Frozen is so good.  It opens and breaks Ciwt's heart.  The main character, Anna, reminds me of my cat Tika, Callie's sister, who died too young three years ago (maybe to the day).  So strongly and open-heartedly joyful and trusting.  The minute I took the step into into the private shelter room where they had Callie and Tika confined, she looked up, came racing across the room and into my heart meowing 'hi, hi, hi, you're here for us!'  She was right; I miss her every day.