In celebration of our
two-year blog-o-versary, Tam and I wish to express our deep gratitude for the
many gifts that blogging together at Kissing
The Earth has given us. We’ve been looking back over the past two years and
wanted to recount some aspects of our landscapes that we are especially
grateful for. We’ve agreed to limit it to seven each (hard to do!) for the days
of the week, for the seven liberal arts, for the seven wonders of the world and
one more reason that will be made clear at the end!
Here are seven things
in my urban San Francisco landscape that I am grateful for:
Crissy Field with its dramatic
views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Bill Dan’s on-going creation of gravity
defying temporal rock sculptures, the wide grassy space to kick the soccer ball
for my Sheltie, Emma while sipping a hot chocolate from the Warming Hut
(because even in the summer, especially in the summer, it’s cold down there!)
The Filbert Steps,
home of the famous wild parrots of Telegraph Hill, leading down, down, down through
the lovely Grace Marchant gardens, to Levi Plaza with its wonderfully wet granite
walk-through fountain. Or up, up, up to Coit Tower with it’s brightly painted
WPA murals and 360-degree views.
City Lights Bookstore,
home of the Beats, half a block from The Language Of Birds light installation
of flying books and the three story mural featuring Benny Goodman, Teddy
Wilson, Herb Caen and Emperor Norton, in the midst of North Beach’s vital cafĂ©
society where modern day Beats still gather to read from Howl on Sunday
afternoons.
Fort Mason with its
Readers Bookstore, Italian Museum, world famous Greens Restaurant, Cowell
Theater, Blue Bear School of Music, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, (where you can rent
beautiful paintings for a reasonable monthly charge), Long Now Museum (with the
Rosetta Project which is archiving all documented human languages), and San
Francisco Children’s Art Center.
Grace Cathedral’s
labyrinths—walking the inside labyrinth when the organist is rehearsing and the
sun is low on the horizon, so it casts dancing lights through the stained glass
windows, or outside after dark with the trees in Huntington Park cheery with
Christmas lights.
Golden Gate Park with
The DeYoung Museum, Academy of Science, Japanese Tea Gardens covered in pink
cherry blossoms in March, Opera in The Park, The Shakespeare Gardens, (and the
soft serve ice cream truck with flavors like Saffron, Meyer Lemon/Thyme and
Blood Orange—yum!) Stow Lake and the Great Blue Herons who return every Spring
to nest in the Pines.
My lovely and amazing
blog partner Tam, friend of my heart and soul. And our incredible writing
community that stretches across the country and across the blog-o-sphere and with special thanks to our dear friend Sarah Wones Tomp who blogs with Suzanne Santillan
at Writing On The Sidewalk for
nominating us for the One Lovely Blog
Award!
And from Tam: My list
of seven things I am grateful for:
Digging and planting
and watering with my kids and—lo and behold—eating our very own cucumbers and
tomatoes for the first time ever
Fresh fox tracks in
the snow
The scent and shade
and soft of the pine
needles on the stonewall section of the Mud Pond trail
The spicy sweet smell
of the essential oil my yoga teacher, Diane, puts in my palms, as we do
shavasana at the end of class in her beautiful upstairs studio full of windows
and plants and light
All five of us (my
family) reading books or writing papers or relaxing in the living room with the
chug chug chug sound of the pellet
stove and the beat beat beat sound of
our hearts
And I am grateful for
Sharry, my blog mate, writing mate, soul mate, dear friend; and for the rest of
my writing friends—you all make this wild wonderful process worth it; for all
of you new blog friends who have chosen to share this part of the process with us,
and to Writing on the Sidewalk for
nominating Kissing the Earth for the
One Lovely Blog Award. Sharry and I are grateful, yes, and honored
to be nominated. Thank you Sarah and
Suzanne!
We're delighted to pass on the One Lovely Blog Award by nominating a few of the blogs we
love. (Again, it’s so hard to choose!) Here are three of our favorites:
The Rules of Accepting the One Lovely Blog Award
1. Link back to the person who nominated you.
2. Post the award photo in your post.
3. Share 7 facts about yourself.
4. Nominate a few other bloggers.
Take Good Care,
Sharry and Tam
Happy anniversary to Kissing the Earth, and to Sharry and Tam! Thanks for reminding us all to look, really see, experience and feel. This is indeed, one lovely blog. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ann! We're so grateful for your ongoing support and kind words.
DeleteCongrats on two years of spreading goodness and wisdom in the world!
ReplyDeleteThanks Trinity! And thank you so much for being such a loyal friend of Kissing The Earth!
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