Distance: 3.2 achey miles
Ciwt was busy today outrunning a cold with multiple events. Now, two asprin and a good night's sleep. Catch you tomorrow.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Staying Ahead --- Day 4/282
Walk: Cinema Club (Brooklyn), Curbside Cafe, Doc Stories Festival (Hitchcock/Truffaut)
Distance: 3.2 achey miles
Ciwt was busy today outrunning a cold with multiple events. Now, two asprin and a good night's sleep. Catch you tomorrow.
Distance: 3.2 achey miles
Ciwt was busy today outrunning a cold with multiple events. Now, two asprin and a good night's sleep. Catch you tomorrow.
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Decisions, Decisions --- Day 4/281
Walk: Clay Theater
Distance: 5 blocks
Ciwt was wracked with indecision today.
Distance: 5 blocks
Ciwt was wracked with indecision today.
Should she go to the opening reception for a Wayne Thiebaud Paintings show where the artist - who has always been generous with his time even as his fame increased - would probably be? And where even the smallest painting was priced at "upwards of $2 million" according to the gallery? 
Wayne Thiebaud
Bakery Counter
1993
oil and graphite on paper
8 5/8 x 11 1/2 in. [image]
9 1/8 x 12 in. [sheet]
Or should she go to the newest documentary (He Named Me Malala) by film and TV director/producer, Davis Guggenheim? It was 7 blocks away at the Vogue with Guggenheim in a Q & A after the film.
But, she'd met Wayne Thiebaud in her art gallery years, was short the $2 mill, not all that drawn to the Malala film AND 5 blocks away at the Clay was the opening of a documentary about Tab Hunter (Tab Hunter Confidential). That was what Ciwt chose. Not because it was the closest but because Tab Hunter was a heartthrob of her youth (swoon) and because he and his partner (also the film's producer), Allan Glaser, would be doing a Q & A. 
What a great decision!! And what a totally authentic, caring, grounded man! As well as multi-talented: A top 40's singer, champion figure skater, competitive ski racer, and, the love of his life, Top Champion (Hunter/Jumper) Horseman 
. As crazy as Ciwt was about him in her youth, she genuinely respects the real man now that he's well and contentedly past Hollywood.
What a great decision!! And what a totally authentic, caring, grounded man! As well as multi-talented: A top 40's singer, champion figure skater, competitive ski racer, and, the love of his life, Top Champion (Hunter/Jumper) Horseman . As crazy as Ciwt was about him in her youth, she genuinely respects the real man now that he's well and contentedly past Hollywood.Friday, November 6, 2015
Shift in Perspective --- Day 4/280
Walk: Downtown
Distance: 1.5 miles and home yoga
It's been a while since Ciwt has spent some time in the financial, working parts of San Francisco. She felt out of practice. Quite a contrast from how downtown looked from the Legion yesterday with the setting sun illuminating the far away windows
.
Distance: 1.5 miles and home yoga
It's been a while since Ciwt has spent some time in the financial, working parts of San Francisco. She felt out of practice. Quite a contrast from how downtown looked from the Legion yesterday with the setting sun illuminating the far away windows
.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Living in a Painting --- Day 4/279
Walk: Marin, The Last Straw
Distance: Just a little
Driving home past the Palace of the Legion of Honor in our early twilight this evening, the soft diffuse lighting and clouds were so ethereal Ciwt just had to stop and live in a painting for a little while.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Good Luck - and More --- Day 4/278
Walk: Fillmore
Distance: 2.4 miles (catch up paperwork day)
When women in Ghana or nearby areas wish to conceive a child or to ensure the attractiveness of the child being carried, they often acquire a ritual fertility doll known as an akuaba. The best known are those of the Ashanti people whose akuaba have large, disc-like heads - like the one on Ciwt's mantle.
(Round or oval shaped heads are considered ideally beautiful by this tribe; other tribes in the region have their own distinctive style of akuaba).
The legend of the origin of the Akuaba doll concerns a woman named 'Akua' who could not get pregnant and went to a local diviner or priest and commissioned the carving of a small wooden doll. She carried and cared for it as if it were her own child, feeding it, bathing it and so on to the point where the people in her village started calling the doll "Akua' 'ba' - meaning Akua's child (or ba). She soon became pregnant and her daughter grew up with the doll.
Although Akua's tradition continues to this day, Ciwt did not have it in mind when she brought her little African carving into her life. She liked it for its pleasant simplicity and didn't learn until quite recently about its fertility associations. Ciwt still finds her akuaba pleasing company on her mantle and was happy to learn that it has 'fostered' another, current, meaning - Good Luck.
Distance: 2.4 miles (catch up paperwork day)
When women in Ghana or nearby areas wish to conceive a child or to ensure the attractiveness of the child being carried, they often acquire a ritual fertility doll known as an akuaba. The best known are those of the Ashanti people whose akuaba have large, disc-like heads - like the one on Ciwt's mantle.
(Round or oval shaped heads are considered ideally beautiful by this tribe; other tribes in the region have their own distinctive style of akuaba).
The legend of the origin of the Akuaba doll concerns a woman named 'Akua' who could not get pregnant and went to a local diviner or priest and commissioned the carving of a small wooden doll. She carried and cared for it as if it were her own child, feeding it, bathing it and so on to the point where the people in her village started calling the doll "Akua' 'ba' - meaning Akua's child (or ba). She soon became pregnant and her daughter grew up with the doll.
Although Akua's tradition continues to this day, Ciwt did not have it in mind when she brought her little African carving into her life. She liked it for its pleasant simplicity and didn't learn until quite recently about its fertility associations. Ciwt still finds her akuaba pleasing company on her mantle and was happy to learn that it has 'fostered' another, current, meaning - Good Luck.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Evening Already? --- Day 4/277
Walk: JCCSF, Best Buy, Fillmore, Hi Tech Nails
Distance: 4 miles and yoga class
Each year it takes Ciwt a few days to get her timing right when Daylight Savings ends. You too?
Distance: 4 miles and yoga class
Each year it takes Ciwt a few days to get her timing right when Daylight Savings ends. You too?
Monday, November 2, 2015
Il Pleut Ici!!! (SF) --- Day 4/276
Walk: JCCSF, Fillmore Bead Store
Distance: 3.8 miles and yoga class
Distance: 3.8 miles and yoga class
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Pass the Cream, Please --- Day 4/276
Walk: Noe Valley
Distance: 1.5 miles and small home yoga
Tiny (and a little shy) but tasty from Ciwt's deck. Turns out strawberries that we enjoy today were first cultivated in Brittany, France in the 1750's. Before that they grew wild with a taste we wouldn't recognize and were used medicinally according to ancient Roman literature (The entire ancient strawberry plant was used to treat depressive illnesses). Its appearance was apparently fetching (face it, the strawberry is cute) and is found in early (15th century) illuminated manuscripts, and Italian, Flemish, German, and English art and miniatures.
The combination of Strawberries and Cream was created by Thomas Wolsey in the court of King Henry VIII (1509 - 1947) which perhaps accounts for the particular English fondness for them. To this day strawberries and cream are famously consumed at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
Distance: 1.5 miles and small home yoga
Tiny (and a little shy) but tasty from Ciwt's deck. Turns out strawberries that we enjoy today were first cultivated in Brittany, France in the 1750's. Before that they grew wild with a taste we wouldn't recognize and were used medicinally according to ancient Roman literature (The entire ancient strawberry plant was used to treat depressive illnesses). Its appearance was apparently fetching (face it, the strawberry is cute) and is found in early (15th century) illuminated manuscripts, and Italian, Flemish, German, and English art and miniatures.
The combination of Strawberries and Cream was created by Thomas Wolsey in the court of King Henry VIII (1509 - 1947) which perhaps accounts for the particular English fondness for them. To this day strawberries and cream are famously consumed at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
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