Stairs cut into the mountain guide us down to the city, where it awakens beneath a sleepy gray sky. You may also like: Feather Bed Looking at a city Painting Portland: and unexpected cyclist haven a Sunday morning Continue reading
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Sacred Places of San Francisco: Mosaics
I touch the Earth because there are so many things I do not see. -Alex Caldiero- (quoted in Red by Terry Tempest Williams) A few months ago, I wrote about how capturing the essence of a city is best done through snapshots- brief views of a place that each capture its character. At the time, … Continue reading
Painting Portland: the Poetry Post and more
Portlanders are bookish. From Annie Blooms to Reading Frenzy to Cameron’s to Wallace Books to Write Around Portland to Powells, City of Books (a literary mecca as the largest independent bookstore in the world), Portlanders find every opportunity to put their nose in a book or put a pen to paper. I am proud to … Continue reading
Painting Portland: my favorite stairway walk
As was the case with a previous post about the Harry Stairs in San Francisco, I have been saving up for a chance to write about my favorite stairways of the West Hills in Portland. When the creative juices are running low, nothing is more inspiring than thinking and writing about one’s favorite places. It … Continue reading
Painting Portland: a highway stairway walk
The mark of a truly livable city is one that has an endless supply of places to explore. Either this means that the city is constantly changing- new restaurants opening, new happy hour spots, new transit lines connecting neighborhoods, general neighborhood and city improvement, etc. or it means that there are countless hidden wonders just … Continue reading
Sacred Places of San Francisco: “Things are getting a bit Harry around here”
As is true of each hidden gem of San Francisco that I’ve been writing about, each is unique to its respective part of the city. San Francisco is truly a city of neighborhoods reminiscent of European cities, most prominently the numbered arrendisements of Paris. Each neighborhood is aptly named with its own descriptor: Noe Valley, … Continue reading
Sacred Places of San Francisco: the top of the world
I have achieved great peace the last few weeks by visiting what I have deemed one of the most sacred places in San Francisco: Bernal Hill. Standing high in the SE part of the city, its bald head dotted with green from a distance, it beckons residents to climb its steep slopes, to reach for … Continue reading
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