Hunter's Point San Francisco

With 250 artists and 140 studios, it is the largest community of artists in the United States. Visionaries welcome. Developers are biting at their heels.

The New Yorker

This week's cover. Nailed it!!
Are we pace-setters or what?
Is our timing perfect?
It's fascinating to see all our predictions illustrated.
Where's Che???

Felice Complecubanos

Rather than a fire hazard with candles on a cake, look what Lainy found and sent to me from New York (remember: that's the place to get real Cuban sandwiches)!
I expect a wee dram of rum to be poured on the floor tonight.

Fatal to Prejudice

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad

Frozen in time

I've been told that "nostalgia" is derived from an Ancient Greek word meaning "the pain, sadness  or excessively sentimental yearning to return to home or to revisit some past period or irrecoverable condition."
This is a county and people with layers of history, diversity and "complications" that it a slow fuse to absorb... like smoking a huge cigar. I need and want to go back - if it is still there.

Farewell Havana

Adios, asere!
A Saturday evening's farewell to all the music, dancing, welcome drinks, smiles and ropas viejas (which predictive spelling wants to change to "topsy burkas").

Up early Sunday morning in Miami to fly to California, thinking hopeful thoughts as the USofA prepares to normalize relations with Cuba Linda. I now know how much we have in common and how precious we are blessed with friends and neighbors.