Away Twice --- Days 7/325 & 6

Walk: 1. Golden Gate Theater (Come From Away) 2. Hood buying supplies before weekend storm
Distance: 3 miles  2. 4 miles

Come From Away: Schoenfeld Theater, New York 

Ciwt was lucky enough to get to Come From Away in New York this fall and then again yesterday in San Francisco.  She liked it very much in both cities.  It starts kind of like a college review or talent show but gets deeper and deeper as the threads of the story begain weaving together and becomes a heartwarming, dare Ciwt say fun?, musical about September 9/11.  Impossible to believe, but true.

Come From Away: Golden Gate Theater, San Francisco

Beach Houses at Crissy Field --- Day 7/324

Walk: Hood
Distance: 2 miles, Yoga

Or maybe you would prefer this Sea Ranch home currently on the market for $2,290,000:

One Year With Ciwt --- Day 7/323

Walk: Crissy Field, Pet Food Express
Distance: 4.6 miles, Yoga

A year ago today Ciwt put two frightened cats into her almost new car and drove them to their new home. Truth be told, Ciwt was frightened too.  So it is One Year Anniversary  Celebration Day around here, and their gifts are two New Boxes!!!   She's sure their excitement about these presents will grow  - and that she'll be able tell them apart by their Two Year Anniversary.

I Said NO Porridge --- Days 7/320, 21, 22

Walk: 1. No, chained to computer  2. No, chained to computer then club  3. Trader Joe's
Distance: 1. 0, teeny yoga    2. 0, try on dress clothes from deep in closet for club dinner, teeny yoga,
                3. 2.8 miles, Soon to do necessary Yoga

So, on Day 1 Ciwt in San Francisco got a call, text And email from her credit card company asking if she was the one charging a slew of video games in Bellevue, WA.  No, of course, and you know the rest: she was condemned to spend the rest of the day at her computer notifying various accounts about her cancelled card.

Then on Day 2 Ciwt still in San Francisco got an email from Apple telling her she was about to run out of storage on the cloud.  So, it was back to her computer for more hours of deleting old files and pictures - and reliving years of her life.  

When she was done with that second nearly complete day at her desk, she had to go to the darkest part of her closet, dust off her dress up clothes and figure out what to wear to a dinner event at her club - again reliving part of her past and capturing her thoughts.

So, today, Day Three,  she is home from the club, caught up with computer stuff for a while, recovering from the club event, and basically recovering her life.  She has no interest in thinking of things her CIWT readers might like to hear because, if she did, she would have to go Back to Her Computer to write about them.  No Thank You.  

Off now to her yoga mat on which she will do only the poses that she enjoys. Calmness will hopefully prevail .   Omm.......

Sequential, Not Permanent --- Day 7/319

Walk: Union Square, SFMOMA
Distance: 2 miles

     At SFMOMA today on her way to visit Richard Serra's massive steel sculpture, Sequence, Ciwt saw instead a huge dark grey wall with portholes and people couching to see through. "Oh no, she thought, "Sequence is leaving the building," and, sadly she was right.  

Actually, part of the building was leaving the building in order for that to happen. Sequence arrived before the renovated SFMOMA reopened in 2016. It was set in place and then a ceiling and walls were built around it.  So, on its departure an entire glass and steel wall was removed from SFMOMA, Sequence was reduced to its huge parts, loaded on 12 flatbed semi trucks and readied for travel back from whence it came: the Cantor at Stanford.  Ciwt will miss it. 

Last Segment of Sequence Leaves SFMOMA

Teacher, Are You Sure You're Looking at the Clock? --- Day 7/318

Walk: Iyengar Yoga Institute, Trader J's
Distance: 3.5 miles, Big Yoga

Iyengar Yoga Teacher (Not Ciwt) plus ropes, wall and blocks

Five minutes is a long time to be in a headstand for Ciwt.  And the same or longer for shoulder stand.  Not to mention a bunch of poses yanking (ooops) assisting herself with ropes, blocks, bolsters and using the wall and chairs to make absolutely sure she is doing the forward bend as deeply as she possibly can.

Such is Iyengar yoga.  Not fun, endorphin releasing like the movement yoga Ciwt has done, taught and now teaches herself.  But good for Ciwt because, even when teaching, she didn't put students in inversions or really any poses for long.  And now that she is her own teacher, No Way. So Iyengar and now those teachers trained in his system is Ciwt's (occasional/supplemental) taskmaster, at least for a while.  

By The Memorable Moody Sea --- Days 316-17

Walk: 1. No, Home cancelling credit card accounts because someone got Ciwt's #
          2. SFMOMA,  Embarcadero Cinema (Cold War)
Distance: 1. 0, Yoga   2. 5 Miles, Small Yoga

Are we at Sea Ranch yet?  No, Virginia, we're at SFMOMA taking in their current architecture and design show.  Usually Ciwt passes on such shows on top of which the whole Design area of SFMOMA is nearly hidden around a barely noticable blind corner on the 6th Floor.  But today she was glad she made the effort because they had built a 'typical' Sea Ranch house for her and other mueum goers to hang out in and equipped it with a TV that told the Sea Ranch story.

That meant she didn't have to study all the original architectural drawings.  Many people really enjoy poring over those, but not Ciwt.

                                    

What is Sea Ranch you may ask.  It is a planned architectural community about 100 miles north of San Francisco that was developed with great Utopian vision and 60's idealism, saw some of those smashed and has now become a tranquil (if Very Windy) vacation favorite (for architectural purists and people who like to  ramble and read books in near absolute silence).  One New York Times writer who visited says the median age of visitors was 69 when she was there.  It is a fun article is you feel like reading.

The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism runs until April 28 at SFMOMA. 

Can You Hear Me.....? --- Day 7/315

Walk: No, Waiting for Comcast
Distance: 0, yoga while waiting

If you haven't heard from Ciwt for a while, it's nothing personal. Today Ciwt spent Sunday with Comcast waiting for and then 'working with' a tech to resolve those communication glitches. We've all been there; no need to elaborate.  So far, so good.  Let the communication resume...