Monday, November 7, 2016

Ordinary and Extraordinary Tales of a November Weekend






No Posting
palimpsest



What one sees when one 
opens one's eye
always a game of chance
a casino economy
swept by con





Hanuman on BART





Graphic November









Time to turn back
the clocks





Saturday



Broadway Oakland
 to College avenue
on the 51




Thanks for the warning






A very quiet back street




The season incarnadine



The bushes bushy
and turning red



The mind focused
ever upward



 There's Bill handing out free tickets
to Loaves and Fishes


 The Newman center
this mild afternoon
a homemade meal and
some company



 Coffee and lemonade
 in the courtyard
or in a lounge,
Flu shots and socks



 Then the monthly meal
and celebration
I come twice a year
around Thanksgiving
and then for the Xmas gala



 A choral group of UC students
De-cadence show up to entertain



 A lovely volunteer
who helps out serving
Glad to spend some time with her




I have an eye for cute tom-boys,
The kids really pour themselves
into singing a Beatles medley



 Everyone feels the blessing
the grace you get

They have a raffle
and a guessing game
with generous gift-card prizes
and a chocolate bar and a song
for birthdays of the month

It's all rather
heart-warming




 Madonna of the Colors




 Downstairs



 What?
Look...it's easy 


I've been to Confession here
or Reconciliation as the Sacrament
is called today



Students stay connected
 with their faith here


 Catholic life
is beautiful



Jesus made into a straw man
for what you don't like 
about so-called Christians





 Post Vatican II crucifix
built into the wall



Haste street
Windows of night




 Portals of the past





 Sunday



 Project X O X O
persists



Project X O X O
Installation side-view



 Careful-rendered letters
soon to painted-over
again


 Wonder highways of the sky
I sit beside the water
and dream myself away on them



 

 Yoshi's
a Japanese restaurant 
and a jazz club renowned
right on the tracks



Blue afternoon mood




 House of Chicken and Waffles
A recent medical study described 
the Southern fare served here
(fried-chicken waffles syrup sweet ice tea)
as an invitation to a stroke





 The Broads of Broadway
give them my regards









 My neighborhood
I finally concede


 Get into the ameboid swim


 Doctor Strange 
paramecium




 Farther along
the estuary



FAIRYLAND 
hang crowd



 Our beloved November 
green grass



Little circles convene
yoga, food, bevridge
cannabis unites them



 Soft as a baby's moptop




Free freedom


 Green green


 

 Vespers at four
I thought I'd return for them
but then forgot and got home in time
for some Panhandle Country on KPFA




 Styling
downtown



Pink Timberlands, purple tights,
pink satin jacket, pink smart phone headphones
pink baseball cap with pom pom






 Monday, 
actually



 New hospital building
where a private house 
held-out for decades



Retro Mondrian sixties




Return of the old gods
Hanuman
servitor of Ram
Vishnu dreaming the universe




Guerilla installation
on Shattuck




Webster near College
bet his neighbors
 loved this one



Peaceful conversation
evening star and the moon




4-7 November 2016

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