Posts Tagged ‘community’
ritual
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything. Ken Kesey Metal Snowflake by trec_lit For the first time in several years, I was home for Christmas. With people I have known all my life. All a little older, a little grayer, a little wiser. I was navigating an in between time of being an adult but [...]
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Tags: cjm, community, Judaica, san francisco, Stanley Saitowitz
after dinner drinks
Tea Kung Fu Photo by Michael Camilleri After dinner, a cup of tea or coffee is always welcome. Consider this my after dinner post to wrap up this edition of the dinner series. For the last couple of weeks, I have been writing about food and community, particularly focused around dinner. I had a lot [...]
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Tags: community, designers, dinner, new york city, NOMA
Leland Avenue Street Fair Photo by VVBOOM Did you know that parties are important for communities? I was recently reviewing a tool used to measure the health of the communities. One of the items measured is the number of block parties held in a neighborhood. Not long after I came to San Francico I participated [...]
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Tags: community, dinner, san francisco, urban life
can i get dinner
Restaurant space constructionPhoto by Katherine Williams For the past two months, in the building I have helped shepherd through construction, we have been constructing a restaurant. It has been a vision for this particular location for almost 10 years, long before I started on the project. In other neighborhoods where commercial activity is already vibrant [...]
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Tags: bayview, community, dinner, san francisco, urban life
dinner with strangers
For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received. Walter Benjamin San Francisco is a food lovers gastronomic paradise. Although I haven’t proven the theory, I am sure you can get just about any kind of food in the city [...]
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Tags: community, food, san francisco, urban life
hosting dinner
Mud Pie This year I decided to host a party for my birthday. I haven’t hosted an adult party at my house since I moved to San Francisco over five years ago. It is one of those things that can be nerve racking because you want to get it right – have the right amount [...]
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Tags: community, dinner, food, san francisco, urban life
What safety net?
Lately I have been thinking about the whole set up of nonprofit, community work in light of the the financial times we are in. I have been asking myself how did we get to a state that Wall Street CEOs, who don’t make any tangible product, earn so much more than average workers, then shelter [...]
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Tags: community, families, urban life
