“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones…
If the June Gloom is strong, the purple blooms last long…
“It’s the little things, I expect. Little treasures we find without knowing their origin. And they come when we least expect them. It’s beautiful, when you think about it.”…
“If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.” ~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher…
“To end our segregated neighborhoods and towns requires a leap of the imagination: Americans have to understand that white racism is still a problem in the United States. This isn't always easy. Most white Americans do not see racism…
“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.” ~ Robert Wilson Lynd …
So, I’m thinking we can gather what we’ve got. I bet there’s more SEIU 347 stuff out there than I imagine. I’ll add the pictures and whatever else I’ve collected. Share yours and I’ll update this in a bit…
I hate fall.…
But in the evening we are melting pots…
“The next will be my fortieth California June. The Jacarandas blooming still sneak up on me.”…
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges…
This old plant...…
The last sanitarium of the Crescenta Valley, run by women, for women starting just three years after women won the right to vote...…
Walt Whitman said, not of LA: “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”…
“... a Southern Californian would still know that it was wonderful to be alive merely for the jacaranda and catalpa tree blossoms."…
“Every election is determined by the people who show up.” ― Larry J. Sabato…
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.” ~Greg Kincaid…
“There are very few organizations and cities left who build their own floats,” he said of the effort. “It’s a community builder and something I’m very proud of from a city standpoint.”…
“Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.” ~ Henry Anatole Grunwald…
On Friday morning, nearly 50 local faith and religious leaders, labor activists, and constituents of Congressman Ken Calvert showed up at his local office in Corona for a festive, spirited rally. The group signed personalized holiday cards, and a…
I bought An America Family by Khizr Khan for my husband, both wanting to support and honor this brave man, his family, the son that he lost, also knowing it’s a book Don would enjoy. I had no idea…
If you know me — even a little — you’ve heard me fuss about changing the clocks. I hate, hate, hate it when we turn the clocks back. I’m terribly sensitive to light and require a great deal of…
“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.” ~ Thomas Moore, Irish poet…
“Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.” ~Anna Quindlen…
A small, influential group of celebrities and animal activists have reinvigorated their failed 2009 campaign to move Billy the elephant out of the LA Zoo. On April 19, Councilmember Paul Koretz introduced a motion to “immediately cancel any current…
...He was his mother’s son, never crossed a picket line, always rooted for the underdog. He worked at the Higher Path because he believed in the healing benefits of marijuana. …