Forgetting

I look through my window
           out
                    toward Sutro                                                  Tower.
Clouds fade
in
       and
 past,
         cover it grey
                  then
             fade
back
       into the light.



As I read -
               sleep -
                         dream -
                                     wake-                   
                                                 I forget that tower is             there.

Nine

Hundred

&

Seventy
-
Seven

feet


It watches over
        me
          .

Oh San Francisco, I Sing to Thee

I've been living here for a year and some change. That's hardly enough time to call things 'serious.' Though, it sure feels like I am in a full-blown exclusive relationship with San Francisco (minus my sometimes wandering lust for New York). Honestly, I am one-hundred percent, completely head-over-heels, cliche-status, crazy in love for San Francisco. I wish I could describe my feelings more eloquently, but I just get so darn excited when I think of this city that I lose all ability to speak. Adjectives like amazing, terrific, and lovely, just will not suffice. So instead I've got pictures which I take on a daily--often hourly--basis of the city. Each picture speaks more words than I could ever sing:

Peering through the trees of Golden Gate Park

Upper Haight

Golden Gate Park - Morning Mist Hour

Anza Street, Outer Richmond, Over Looking Ocean Beach

7:00 AM Outer Richmond

Market Street

Chinatown

Golden Gate Park -- Buffalo Field

Rooftop

Golden Gate Bridge, Marin County

Have Your Cookie & Eat It

This is going to sound so twenty-first century, but being a blogger is hard work! Especially since most writers I assume have day jobs or other freelance obligations. How do they keep up with posting interested and thoughtfully assembled pieces each week? Maybe it isn't as hard as I believe it to be. Or maybe it really is difficult and I need to suck it up.

I've been toying lately with the idea of goals. Why do we set them? What do we gain from them? Why do some stick and others fail? My new job has required reading to help me dive into a new business-dynamic mindset. One such book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, is about changing the way you perceive change. It's about making a switch in your life--one that you truly want to make--without totally changing who you are and how you think. For example, to stop eating cookies, I could just tell myself they are unhealthy and therefore make myself feel bad each time I eat one. According to Switch, that is entirely the wrong approach. People's habits and thought processes are not made to easily flip by will power alone. It takes some strategic planning and thinking tied along with the emotional side. Of course I want to eat that cookie right now. If I only listen to my emotions then I will eat it, straight away. If I only listen to my rational then I will never eat it. But if I combine forces and have a little pay off with a little self-control then I win. This book explains how. Though I haven't finished yet, it has good food for thought.

All this rambling about goals and blogging is because it is something I want to achieve, but need to work on. I've written about this before and pondered why it is that some activities we love are the hardest to complete. I adore writing, yet keeping up with it on a regular basis is, at times, daunting. At the end of a long day I usually want to curl up on the couch with a book and cup of lavender tea.

Well, all I can say for this post is that I am back on the blog. I will try my best to keep up with it no matter how hard the week is. In the end it feels far better to accomplish something rather than to keep putting it off and feel lazy. Now I'll go eat my cookie as a reward.