Plastic Bags Banned in California --- Day 3/259

Walk: CPMC, Trader Joe's, Mindful Body
Distance: 2 miles and teach yoga class


Claes Oldenburg, Ice Bag - Scale C, 1971, 12' diameter

This one is made of fiber-re-inforced polyester resin, lacquer, nylon cloth saturated with neoprene, plywood, steel, fans and motors so Ciwt assumes it would be allowed here.

Its technology was updated for a 2009 show at the Whitney Museum and it now functions as the artist had originally intended, inflating and deflating with a twisting motion and mechanical sigh. (Some say soothing the art world's collective hangover).

Here and There Around the House --- Day 3/258

Walk: No, Monday Chores
Distance: 0, home yoga practice



Honda Syoryu (b. 1951), Bamboo and Rattan, Openwork twining,H.  11 1/2in xW. 25 in x D 24 in.

Brown means.... --- Day 3/257

Walk: Polk Street
Distance: 2.5 miles, Fall closet caper try-ons take energy

Brown

Colombia : discourages sales

Australian Aboriginals : colour of the land, ceremonial ochre

Feng Shui : Yang, Earth, industry, grounded

Brown : friendships, special events, earth, materialistic thoughts, hearth, home, outdoors, inexpensive, reliability, credibility, comfort, endurance, stability, simplicity, comfort, longevity, intimacy, tranquility, masculine, nurturing, contentment, strength, sensuality, productivity, passivity, fertility, generosity, dirt, substance, practicality, hard work

Brown is too low key if used broadly without texture or another color to enhance it. Useful for promoting food and outdoor products for work and play.

Reddish-brown : harvest, autumn

Beiges and tans : Yang, sophistication, neatness, conceals emotion

Copper : passion, money goals, professional growth, business productivity, career moves

Coffee browns : sophistication, richness, robustness, panache

 

It's been a good run, but looks like Ciwt and Brown are coming to a parting of the ways..

Shop Independents -- Day 3/256

Walk: Mindful Body, Union Square (Babette) Russian Hill (O.R. Design), Fillmore Street (Sunhee Moon)
Distance: 4.5 miles and teach yoga class



Ciwt was busy and feeling good today about supporting small San Francisco clothes designers.

Retail and Cinema Therapy --- Day 3/255

Walk: Union Square, AMC  Van Ness (The Skeleton Twins), Fillmore Street
Distance: 5 miles


Henri Matisse, Still Life with Sleeping Woman, 1940, oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x39 5/8 in

Ciwt is at rest after day of retail therapy and an unexpectedly good movie.

Yawn --- Day 3/254

Walk: San Rafael
Distance: 6 blocks and home yoga practice



Ciwt is taking it easy today.

I Give a Fig --- Day 3/253

Walk: Sausalito
Distance: A few blocks/day of rest


Figs in Basket.  Pompeii Fresco.

Fall means figs here in Northern California.  Ciwt has always loved them and is lucky to have a yoga student who brings them to her from her Sonoma garden.  But she has never known that figs were one of the first plants cultivated by humans and may be the first known instance of agriculture.  This intentional cultivation was in the Jordan Valley, north of Jericho and predates the domestication of wheat and rye by one thousand years.

And, mercifully because they are so delicious, they are good for us.  They're among the richest plant sources of calcium and fiber.  They are also rich in copper, magnesium, potassium and vitamin K as well as other nutrients.  And..they are antioxidants.

Well, OK!  Fresh figs in Ciwt's salad for dinner tonight; thank you, kind student.

Fall Roads --- Day 3/252

Walk: CPMC, Trader Joe's, Acuity Vision, Mindful Body
Distance: 5+ miles and teach yoga class

Ciwt's Favorite Season Began Today