Here is a site listing the numbers from 1 to 10 in more than 4500 languages. It is interesting to browse through this massive catalog of languages, all of them representing a separate culture, history and the identity of a people who were proud, who talked, laughed and sang in that language. And while many [...]
We saw “Postmen in the Mountains” yesterday. This is a beautiful, evocative movie telling a very simple story about a young men who takes over a strenuous postal route through the mountains from his father. On his first tour, the father accompanies him and the two spend more time together than ever in their life, [...]
Sutter Street, San Francisco
Quote of the day from turningtables (I’ve talked about this blog before) “it is very hard to be a half full kind of person in the middle of this half empty kind of thing…” It is, isn’t it? Over the last year or two, a group of ugly and nauseating characters has changed the world [...]
Laughing Knees is Miguel Arboleda’s weblog from Japan. He seems to be a gentleman in his middle years who has spent his life in many places, accumulating a mountain of wisdom. His blog is one of the most lyrical and poetic I have found, he mostly writes about travel, hiking and experiencing nature. A regular [...]
Bush Street, San Francisco
Polk Street, San Francisco
turningtables is a blog written by an US soldier in Iraq. He writes almost daily and his reports are a very honest and intimate look into the daily lifes of the US soldiers deployed in Iraq. Here a few quotes: “i actually have been performing an ‘experiment’…i’ve been asking random soldiers who the vice president [...]
We went to the Stern Grove Festival today and I can’t believe that it took us 3 years in San Francisco to even hear about these events! The venue for these concerts is a deep valley in a park in the south-western part of San Francisco and the stage area is surrounded by huge redwoods [...]
Hyde Street, San Francisco