Blogging??? This is what happens when I wake up at 4:30 AM and can’t go back to sleep! Perhaps it’s part of a natural progression in the nesting process — finally feeling comfortable and at-home in my tiny rooftop studio apartment in my new city. Maybe it’s another trial balloon in my search for a creative outlet or a project to add structure to my newly retired life. Then again, with close friends so far away and Skype taking the spontaneity out of phone calls, it could fulfill a need to share my current adventures with whomever cares to read my musings, even if it’s just me. Whatever the reasons (probably all of the above and then some), here’s hoping I become a little braver in revealing myself, don’t let my perfectionist streak get in the way of posting, and I stick with it!
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Hi Shannon,
I thoroughly enjoyed you blog. You know, when I was a kid in Brooklyn at Easter-time, the Catholic churches gave out little crosses hand-made from palm fronds. They were generally simply-made, but everyone had one (except us, of course, because we weren’t Catholic). But it’s funny, that in San Francisco, a city full of Mexican people, I never see the little palm-frond crosses at Easter. I wonder how it became a tradition in Brooklyn and not in San Francisco?
Anyway, reading your blog was like taking a little vacation. My overall impression: people in Mexico have much more of a community identity than we do here in the USA.
There isn’t even that much communal solidarity on our Peace marches!
Love and solidarity,
Bonnie
Miss you, Shannon, but glad to see you broadcasting your world. Nice tribute to mom- my wife Nina’s in the process of getting her mother a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal Award for her role in the Women’s Air Service Patrol, a WWII service latecomer to historical recognition like the Navajo Code Talkers and the Tuskeegee Airmen.
I’m in the middle of shooting 24,000 political posters, which will go (as will I) to the Oakland Museum. Amazing.
Felicitaciones!
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