5/06/2015

SUNDAYS….what in tarnation !!!!

Sundays are usually pretty quiet….
fruits on a hot day 
after church fellowship…uhmmm love it !
 the priest greeting the church goers after the mass



Foxes at Sharp Park


or so it seems….
Golfers at Sharp park enjoying the company of a fox
until something out of the ordinary ….
makes you think different…
Sharp Park Fox



i was on my way to continue my "plein air"session
view of Treasure Island and East Bay

when i felt the wind was too gusty while following 
a tourist on 
his way to twin peaks
Iowan plated car

so i thought to lax the day off and follow the crowd for
what might be exciting…
dismally..I admit, i'm that easy to convince 
when a probable promise of excitement
can happen..even if it were  "sort'a might "...
after all,  Sundays 
are a little too quiet at times…
San Francisco view atop twin peaks 
and nothing could be more disturbing than that...
the strong wind blowing her skirt off at twin peaks
The Twin Peaks is a regular stop for tourists….
 who enjoy the role of playing tourists,,,
they spend plenty of their saved money
for the city coffers...
tourists with warm coffee cups….
just don't fall over the cliff, folks!
other Sundays characterize the city ….
as if one is watching a rerun of "Dirty Harry",
"i'm just sunbathing officer"….



there's a good application of psychology and diplomacy

called for in this situation…
Guerrero and Market St scene


i got an interesting image for tweeter….

get him a new wardrobe,,,,


after a 3 hour stand off…
a promise of a new pair of blue jeans..
took care of the matters for the day….

Meanwhile in the Haight district…..


Yes , I guess we can say, we don't know a lot
about Sundays….

are these scenes indication of crises in life?
At a certain age,,,,we find ourselves at a crossroad….
where one believes and thinks,,,
there's not a step in either direction…
taken or not 
would do any demonstrable difference or impact a 
positive change and enlightenment.

In a  logic class in college, we called this a 
"dilemma"….
it's about making a choice between two
equally undesirable alternatives….

(sometimes this is presented on
 desirable terms...
My ex gf awhile back offered me 
"breast or thigh"?…)

Nowadays, the term used is euphemistically
called middle age crisis. 
Yes, there's a void in life.
The truth is the person's psyche plays 
itself out on his dismal lack of knowledge
and inability to create a remedy to his
perceived problematic situation .
His thinking is paralyzed, pretty much.
To some people, it may just be a simple case
of boredom or lack of sexual excitement,
a loveless state of affairs, some quacks call it
a simple case of ADD (attention deficit disorder).

One might be tempted to conclude life is not compellingly
interesting enough to continue…
and knowing the brevity of life,
one starts thinking,
"there's not a moment to lose"…
and goes out to pursue stupidly impulsive
acts to disturb the lull,
tourists at the De Young Museum

hoping it will lead to a worthwhile equilibrium,
though in equal probabilities, 
it's opening an invitation to nightmarish disaster.
the storm that brought hope to the California drought

Patience not procrastination, is hereby a virtue worth
considering. It's waiting to see, how time with carefully 
calculated response to dilemmas, will unfold.

On the one hand, society has the irresistible habit of clinging to the
argument that good will rise over evil.

Hence , we pit evil against God. 
It is a very difficult way of leaving life to the 
claws of uncertainty. So that when SNAFU 
looms in the offing as a consequence of
inappropriate response,
we quickly switch over to the
non physical dimension and
conveniently succumb to relegating
matters to God for a good 
outcome and believing He will
intervene.

There may in recorded chronicles be a basis
to sustain this spiritual idealism,,,but
to get there is truly perplexing
and necessitates an origin of  dilemmic situation.

By the way, neither breast or thigh 
appealed to me…
they were both carbonized..
she'd never learn how
to grill chicken…

that's all folks!

jt


















3/17/2015

TIME

time.... i think....

 is relative and only relevant to the individual.....

(assuming we're confining our discourse to the homo sapien}...
there is really no time one can pinpoint and use




 related to 
anything in the universe as we know it or the lack of knowledge thereof....
for even the so called "big bang" cannot yet be pinpointed...
by the great scientists and mathematicians...



there is only time that we can refer to and use with respect
to our physical
existence on the planet....

... from day one or the first minute of birth...



one starts to count time for any purpose related
to growth, accomplishments, failures or loss of opportunities
or inaction or passiveness...

though we are made aware and become consciously aware of time,
it's continued movement is beyond our control....
and as our physical bodies progress from birth till maturity
time only serves as a marker or referral point
to our movement and growth.



to refer to a time last year,
Christmas time in
particular....
SF PEBS
 had a catching up
gathering



at Stonestown
for about 4 hours.

We had fun...greeted each other
warmly and enjoyed the
Godiva chocolates and coffee
Ramon bought...



Theresa and Matt have a kick starter
cd project, Penelope is still
working on her book about
Rizal's travels...Dina, Ksenia, Arina
and Karen couldn't
make it for the gathering, Ramon is
going about his daily routine



of work and not much play,
and I working on my paintings....



there wasn't much new, really ...
though progress might be
said happening in our lives
on an individual basis.

One might say time had slowed down,

or one might claim it's going too fast...
but it's all in relation to the progress or retrogress
happening  in our lives.

To a romanticist....time is not really counted,



but would care to refer to it only to 
enjoy life...
"stop and smell the roses", is his 
favorite adage...
if you're this type of a person,
you can bet there's plenty of us,



since the  beginning of time,
which i really don't have an idea of
when is when....
but who cares ....
for as long as the roses are
there for all of us.





that's all folks!

jt









1/13/2015

My Thinking is running behind....

......

United States
16
Ukraine
15
Poland
10
Germany
2
Bulgaria
1
France
1
Netherlands
1
Philippines
1
Russia
1


my brain had been running rather slow  lately...
a woman watches the container ships by fort mason before dusk...

....that explains why i have not posted much for the last quarter of 2014...
the barren branches in the fall.....

thanks to the readers in the countries listed above...
who have patiently
followed the blog....
Christmas tree in the mall....

as i'm writing this blog...i knew i could use some
sort of a motivational push and energy out of  listening to a youtube playist of Monti's Czardas which includes Victor Borge's duet with a violinist....

i had been busy
alla prima nude study....
 with my art, though,

i worked on my artworks like this mule
which pretty much was my preoccupation
to compensate for the less lively life....
Golden Gate bridge winter sunset

fall had visually deprived a lot of us
into the chilly winter ....
the fort mason harbor...sunset before the arctic blast...that buried Buffalo, NY in 12 feet of snow...

that's all folks!

catch you later....

jt





9/09/2014

Haight is high!

....the Haight Street was closed off to traffic ....

for the weekend street fair ...

the three blocks running from Stanyan to Masonic
was filled with marijuana smell 
and festive

with the
new generation
of hippies 
and a bit over jubilant
 crowd enjoying food

 and music....

just coming from a plein air session at the 
Marina green by
Fort Mason,  I 
went to Goorin Bros Inc. for hats...
a hat maker company in SF since
1949 with earlier
beginnings in
Pensylvania.

 Jordy
Jordy
a psychology major who just
graduated at SF State University...
she's got my hat on
 is a photographer on the side

the universal peace sign 

Akari,


a fashion designing student
at the city college...
she just arrived from her vacation 
in Osaka, Japan...

The street was billowing with smoke 
emanating 
from "burning rubber,"
a term for race car drivers
spinning the car wheels hard enough to
create friction between the wheels
and the concrete...

There is the usual barbecue 
and burger and other kinds
of ethnic food for people to 
satisfy their fill ...

 wound up the day 
at Crepes on Cole...
the place was half empty


quiet enough for
a Sunday.


that's all folks!

jt