Oh, It's January --- Days 13/5 & 6

Walks: Hood

Distance: 5 miles each

Ciwt had forgotten how kind of blah January can be.  Good for things like weeding through closets, making some home decorating decisions, grooming cats, figuring out how to have old furniture hauled away, yawning, sleeping, wearing mittens, generally getting tasks done.  But no good for CIWT readers looking for any interesting entries.  

Crack Pot --- Days 13/2-4

 Walks: Legion of Honor Museum, Marin Shopping

Distances: Average 3.5 miles

Bouke de Vries (English), Memories in Porcelain

  
So Ciwt would be excellent at the first stage of Bouke de Vries' work: breaking the porcelain.

When she's done that, she has sometimes tried to used Super Glue to 'restore' the piece.  Tried and failed so she has sadly discarded the 'useless' shards.

But to de Vries, those broken fragments, represent a new life for the pieces.  He sees what he calls 'beauty in destruction' and makes them into new and original 'memory vessels.' Yes, the porcelains have lost their original flawlessness, but de Vries finds a new model for finding value in ceramic objects - whether broken, intact or reassemble.

Lucky 13 and Ciwt! --- Day 13/1!!

 Walk: Legion of Honor (Botticelli x 2), AMC Kabuki (Ferrari x 2)

Distance: 2.5 miles

Who would have thought it?  Certainly not Ciwt who - thirteen years ago today - challenged herself to write an entry every day for a year. CIWT began as a chore, then, thanks to time and her wonderful readers, it has become a friend and a chore not to check in with an entry.   Thank you, CIWT and readers wherever you are.  You make such a difference.

On Wings of Genius --- Day 12/365

Walk: AMC Kabuki

Distance: 2 miles

There is creative genius - and then there is Hayao Miyazaki. His mesmerizing animated movie The Boy and the Heron had Ciwt riveted from beginning to end - including the must-stay-for song over the end credits.  Ths in spite of the fact that she often didn't entirely understand what she was looking at. Doesn't matter.  Probably Miyazaki is the only one who does; it's his poem.

Perfect 100 --- Day 12/364

Walk: Hood

Distance: 5 miles

So, Ciwt is a little tired at the end of today.  She decided to get rid of 100 pieces of clothing from her closets.  You know how that goes: try on, debate, remember when you bought it, maybe how much it cost, closing eyes and stuffing it in the donation bag.  Kind of an exhausting walk down memory lane, but all the space feels great.

Save $30 on CIWT --- Day 12/363

Walk: Marin Drive, then Union Square

Distance: 2 miles 

So, Ciwt will now save you the $10 surcharge on top of the $20 entry fee (Total: $30)  to see artist Yayoi Kusuma's Infinity Rooms at SFMOMA.

The Rooms are sold out on line so she needed to purchase her ticket several months in advance. When she got to her time slot the line wasn't bad, although she heard that people the day before had waited an hour beyond their entry time.  

She was given a little introductory lecture about basically what to expect, then her group of 12 was escorted to the door of the first Room and let into the first Mirrored Infinity Room:

 

Then after the allowed two minutes, her group was let out of that Room and taken to the second one titled Infinite Love.

Two minutes later she was let out, and her $30 experience was complete.  

She can't recall being particularly moved except to be glad she hadn't decided to take in the Rooms in L.A. at the Broad Museum where the lines (of mostly teenagers) was hours long but the 'timed' admission was free.

Now, Pink --- Day 12/362

 

Walk: SFMOMA (Infinity Mirror Room)

Distance: 4 miles

Ciwt read somewhere that pink is a healing color, also believed to represent love, compassion and inner peace.  So she has begun 2024 with an abundance of it around her home.  

Things That Have Never Been --- Day 12/361

Walk: Hood & Presidio

Distance: 5 miles