Hello again San Fran!

We love cities, but this is one we care about in full view of her shadows, and she is a returning or recurring motif in my own story.

Always good to kiss her, pray for, and dance with her again, and be back! Some people don’t like cities. I’m not one of those people. I experience them as people, and this is one I’ve always loved. We’ve seen each other, and still care for one another. That’s a good sign.

Always nice landing into ourselves here again this week in our space in San Fran…pleasant birthday week thus far!

Good coffee, hidden pathways, books, remarkable breakfast (fresh season crab eggs benedict and lemon banana crepe at one of our favorite local cafes), and this pizza was all they said it is.

And these yellow flowers near our house which come out seasonally here, have that celtic glory which makes my heart sing around St Patricks!

Thanks San Fran, nice to see ya again old friend, and lovely lady. Thankful for our friendship.

You can see how our days often roll here. We like to eat, think, write, walk and talk, look at and make art, lots of gazing at, and contemplating the personalities and design of cities; and be ourselves; and trail into the mysteries around us. Easy to do that here for us. A joy filled ease of release into other.

Thankful for the daily, beautiful and often small things in life. Also for five un-photoed green hummingbirds today, with tiny flecks of red on their necks—magical little words of life hovering and darting around the many early spring flowers and us today! (The unseen things in our days determine the seen!)

“The Word is so much with us, all around us.” as a friend from here wrote to me today. Or as my mom used to remind us daily: “This is the Day that the Lord has made, let’s find it, and rejoice in it!”

Wherever we are, that Day, always feels like home, and I like finding that Day, in this city! Nice to be back. I could list my thanks forever, for all the small daily blessings in life, like light on a city, or on the wrist of my wife’s hand, sipping a drink she likes. Or a good breakfast in a city i love.