Drive? No; Sick? Yes --- Day 6/130

Walk: Crissy Field, Kabuki Theater (The Big Sick)
Distance: 5 miles, Home yoga

Delightful movie getaways are particularly hard to come by during the summer months, so Ciwt is happy to report that she found one in The Big Sick.  (She was hoping for the same a couple of days ago with Baby Driver but was disappointed when the rest of the ride seemed to her rather dull following a great opening car chase scene).  Maybe a tad long, but The Big Sick was never dull.  The characters are believable, likable and have depth.  The 'unbelievable' rom-com story is actually true-ish and touching.  Best of all, the humor is very funny.

Artists and Artistes --- Day 6/129

Walk: Legion of Honor
Distance: A Few Blocks, Home Yoga

Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, ca 1880-84, oil on canvas

Parisian Millinery, 1880's

Ciwt stopped in briefly at the Legion of Honor's new exhibition, Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade.

Blah --- Day 6/128

Walk: Vogue Theater (Baby Driver)
Distance: 2 miles, Small Yoga

Rather a blah day....

Closet Recovery --- Day 6/127

Walk: No, Home Projects
Distance: 0, Home Yoga

       Kitchen

                        
                                               Wet Sink

    Office (with unaffordable dream cottage on screen)

What to do in Callie recovery?  So far, three dreaded closet capers, Breaking Bad binge - oh, and dying hair a much darker color than expected. Onward...

I Am Curious Goose --- Day 6/126

Walk: Crissy Field, Monday Errands
Distance: 4 miles, Home Yoga

 

Ciwt thought she saw some new geese at Crissy Field March this morning.  So, she walked through the bushes to a small pier where she thought she'd watch them.  Instead she became the watchee.  They all spotted her, and one in particular marched, marched across the field and stared Ciwt down.

Handy Around the House - I'll Say!!! ---- Day 6/125

Walk: Inverness, CA (JD Blunk Private House Tour)
Distance: Small walk around house and grounds, small yoga

Today Ciwt is feeling particularly unhandy around the house after touring the home of Northern California craftsman/woodworker, J.D. Blunk (1926-2002).  The entire house is a work of art - and virtually all that art was crafted - or just found and admired - by Blunk.  Ciwt's pictures tell a little of the story, but you can learn and see more about Blunk and his house at his website

Perfectly round rock found by Blunk in a Northern California river.  People have been looking for others for decades with no luck.

Entrance stone arch now covered in moss

Revelation(s) -- Day 6/124

Walk: de Young Museum (Revelations: Art from the African American South)
Distance: 6.3 miles, yoga stretch

                                

Mary T. Smith (1904-1955, Mississippi) in her painting yard and Untitled, 1987, housepaint on board 

So, when Ciwt heard that the de Young Museum had acquired a large collection of African American Art from the South, her reaction was "Here in San Francisco?  Please, how patronizing can you get?" (Yup, true confessions, that's what she thought)  The show was proudly hung about a week ago, and today, expecting very little, Ciwt walked over to see it.  Within a few minutes she was on the verge of tears where she stayed throughout the entire exhibition.

Even if any of the collection purchasers were the slightest patronizing, the pure Soul, bedrock authenticity and immediacy of each and every piece in the show overrides that or any cynical thoughts like Ciwt's in a nanosecond.  These artists are not crafting art to sell; they were and are standing in their backyards or sitting in their crowded sewing rooms communicating with their art, speaking through it - sometimes to humans, sometimes to God, much time to both.  These artists are "self-taught," "outsider," "naive" in art parlance - and their art is devastatingly powerful in person.

Even the quotes encountered throughout the show are killers.  Hear some of the hard truths of Thornton Dial (1928-2016, Alabama) : Art is like a bright star up ahead in the darkness of world.  It can lead people through the darkness and help them from being afraid of the darkness.  Art is a guide for every person who is looking for something.

The show is up until next April at which time the pieces will be integrated and rotated with the rest of the de Young's superb American Art collection.  Ciwt will be back often - so her readers will hear more about Revelations.

                                                            

                                                                     

Morning Arises --- Day 6/123

Walk: Crissy Field, Kabuki Theater (Beatriz at Dinner)
Distance: 5 miles, small home yoga