This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is CAREFUL.
Careful, according to The Daily Post prompt, can refer to many things: a photograph taken with care, a person being careful, or a task or detail requiring care.
The way this week has gone — dinner with Drew in Koreatown; a reception for Chamber Music Artists; Asian American Writers Workshop double book launch of Luis Francia and Midori Yamamura; and Penny Jackson’s play “Louise in Charlottesville” — and the pouring rain yesterday, self had absolutely not a spare moment. GRRRR.
But here are three pictures of what “Careful” means to self.
First, she never goes anywhere without her journal. She uses it primarily to make random observations.
Last night, on the train, a conductor seemed anal about the passengers’ “dirty feet.” Over and over, he admonished the passengers NOT. TO. PUT. DIRTY. FEET. UP. ON. THE. SEATS. Nearly drove self mad.
Upper West Side, New York City: Taking Notes in a Chocolate Shop on Broadway
Her friend has a beautiful apartment on the Upper West Side. She is a writer, of course.
You can always tell the quality of a mind by the quality of that person’s bookshelves. These belong to a friend who lives in the Upper West Side.
Finally, Dog-Eared Books in Valencia. This is one of the mainstays, along with the science fiction bookstore Borderlands, that have called the Mission District of San Francisco their home for many years. With the loss of other mainstays, like Modern Times Books, self cherishes these last hold-outs before the yuppie deluge:
Dog-Eared Books, Valencia St., San Francisco: Murals on the exterior walls are painted with books.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
