A Walk Down Memory Lane in Berkeley

 

 

 

 

 

Walking in Berkeley today

Mindful of the sacred

A storied liquor store along my way

 

Where every great tree 
is familiar to me

This is an historic aerial view of Iceland
a beloved ice-skating rink

Residents pleaded with the City to save it
but the forces of capitalism won out

Here's how it looks today

 

How it once looked

in it's Overlook Hotel era

Here's how it looks today
There's the scoreboard
read it and weep if so inclined

 A vast sporting goods emporium

Yeah we're out there having fun
In the warm California sun

High-endish pricewise

On the Frisbe spectrum

 

Sometimes I get the feeling everybody else in California 

is having more fun than I am

Paddle boards offer a strenuous work-out
while you seem to stand on the water

For many years a sprawling open green lawn 
available to all -- Now a manicured baseball field
 used by only a few for brief periods of time

All that's left of the public lawn
I reclined in the grass a moment myself

Time to re-walk a mile in my moccasins

The object of my quest?
a new hiking bag an early birthday gift to myself
and a cool cotton pocket T-shirt

Could have used a new surfboard too
but I resisted the impulse buy

  22 July 2021