2009 and the sea
On the San Francisco Bay: 183 nm
On the California Coast: 48 nm
On the N. Atlantic/Caribbean Sea: 149nm
Grand total for 2009: 380 nm
Combined with last year’s total, I’ve earned 2% towards a swallow.
Many thanks to John Yelda of Sailing San Francisco for his advice and guidance along the way. For those interested, John offers sailing charters and
sailing lessons in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
8 April 2010 · Comment
Excerpt: Untangling My Chopsticks
by Victoria Abbott Riccardi
Across from a new green-and-red Fuji film store sat a small restaurant in a decrepit old building offering dusty plastic models of tempura-topped rice bowls and fat rice-stuffed omelets belted with ketchup. The eatery appeared more distressing than appealing, at least on the surface.
The Japanese believe that beauty can reside in things that are rustic, withered, faded, simple, imperfect or incomplete. This aesthetic concept applies to people, as well as things, and stems from the words wabi and sabi. The spirit of wabi tends to be inward and subjective and often refers to a path or way of life, while sabi generally pertains to material objects, art literature, and external events. A monk living in self-imposed isolation in the woods, for example, embodies wabi because he coexists with nature in a state that is physically impoverished but rich in spirit. The restaurant with its dusty models had a sabi quality because, by being housed in a crumbling wooden building next to a modern business, it evoked the corroded elegance of another era, like an antique kimono in a closet of designer wear.
9 April 2009 · Comment
2008 and The Sea*
On the San Francisco Bay: 276 nm
On the California Coast: 305 nm
On Lake Tahoe: 18nm
On the N. Atlantic/Caribbean Sea: 75nm
Grand total for 2008: 674 nm
It seems I’ve earned a sparrow.
* sailed and motored
Many thanks to John Yelda of Sailing San Francisco for his advice and guidance along the way. For those interested, John offers sailing charters and
sailing lessons in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
27 January 2009 ·
Liveblogging in Louisville
So far: partied in La Grange, worked up a good Bourbon drunk, sat for hours with an old friend, met a great pup, dined at Jack Fry's, beers at Nachbar.23 November 2007 · Comment
An Albemarle Fizz
Via Josey Packard at The Alembic
Ingredients:
10 raspberries
1/2 lemon, juiced
.5 oz simple syrup
2 oz gin
champagne
Muddle 10 raspberries in a Boston shaker, followed by the juice of half a lemon. Add .5 oz of simple syrup (or none if you tend towards tart), then 2 oz of your favorite gin. Shake with ice, pour into a glass and top with champagne.
Hack: use a highball if you plan to have many, use a champagne flute if you’re on the salty side.
3 September 2007 ·