“Circle the Food Wagons!†I gave that title to a Shaping San Francisco Talk we had last night at Counterpulse, featuring folks from local small farm/gardening projects and also John Garrone, who is the “mushroom guy†at the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market. It was one of those evenings that makes me happy and [...]
I rode my bike up to Twin Peaks on Friday, May 7, a common ride for me. But this time I went with some real anticipation and hope that I’d see a Mission Blue butterfly on the slopes. I spent an hour walking around the southeasterly slopes (on the trails mostly), occasionally sitting in a [...]
I’ve been attracted to utopian thinking for as long as I can remember. The concept of utopia implies for some “perfectability†but I never really took it that way. Seen in that light, it’s easy to see why some now hold utopia with suspicion, seeing it as harboring totalitarian nightmares of total control, an entirely [...]
