A group called Give Love New York is in San Diego this weekend during 2017 Maker Faire. You can find them near the Old Globe in Balboa Park, passing out carnations and inviting passersby to dance and converse and smile and sing and play games and write messages containing kindness, positivity and wisdom!
This unique Give Love project is the brainchild of Alive Worldwide. Their mission is to use creativity to encourage and spread human compassion.
Very cool! Events such as this could be held in every corner of the world! It’s very easily done. Why not?
Two smiles and free carnations from Give Love San Diego, at 2017 Maker Faire in Balboa Park!With the help of the Old Globe Theatre, spreading kindness worldwide @givelovenewyorkGiving words of wisdom. Share your thoughts on a written note, then come back later and retrieve new wisdom to take home.Try it!Challenge yourself daily.Freedom is found by sacrifice. Question the unknown.Love hard. Love strong. Love always.Be open. Treat others with understanding. Give Love San Diego!
A chapter in the history of Little Italy. These few words also appear in untold human stories. Factory and first class Italian macaroni.
Sidewalks are crisscrossing pathways inside countless stories. Often elements from the stories linger in front of one’s eyes.
I recently walked down Kettner Boulevard in Little Italy. I moved slowly forward down the west sidewalk, from Kalmia Street to Fir Street.
Someone carefully laid these tiles in one small section of the sidewalk. Adding to many forward journeys a brief moment of beauty.Art, love, tears, humor . . . and croissants. Elements that are shared in many stories.Essential words underfoot. Many might pass without noticing.What thought or emotion caused someone to produce this image on a wall? Where is that person now?A carefree vision of what might be. Dreams on another wall in the city.Two stories intersect for a moment. The story of an artist and the story of a pedestrian.Art on a sidewalk shows an imagined garden path into an idyllic future.Many in Little Italy have had their paths influenced by legends.This restaurant has been a dream ever since we were kids playing on the street of Little Italy…A moment in memory captured, made magical, and shared.Little Italy in San Diego, where countless moving feet and stories converge.
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Perhaps you’ve noticed I love to write fiction. I love to combine words. Words are tools that can dig toward truth.
I’ve recently written three short stories that are absolutely dystopian. They concern advancements in technology and the possibility of our own dehumanization.
I’m not a pessimist. I prefer to smile and generally try to find and highlight good things in life. But I also strive to be intellectually honest. I recognize that the human world contains both light and darkness. And some of my stories can be quite dark.
It’s funny–the latter, most recent story was written yesterday as I sat beside the small river in Balboa Park’s beautiful Japanese Friendship Garden. Looking down at the living water, I felt strangely like a giant. Perhaps my stream of thought emerged from that feeling.
Town and Country Hotel sign reads: CUIT 5TEALING O R LETT3RS
I was heading home from work today when I spied something funny through the bus window. The big Town and Country Hotel sign now reads: CUIT 5TEALING O R LETT3RS. Either a crook has stolen the missing letters, or somebody is providing us with a good laugh!
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Walking around downtown San Diego, you never quite know what you’ll find. Some sights merit a quick chuckle, or a roll of the eyes. Sometimes laughter erupts!
Guy in suit with briefcase seems desperate to escape from this building.I hate tacos said no Juan ever.Pirate Pac-Man! Arrrr!Beer . . . ask your doctor if it’s right for you. (Be mindful of possible side effects.)More espresso, less depresso.STD Construction – We’re ContagiousAll of me loves all of you (when you do the dishes).Fried, my second favorite F-word.Reggae Dog!Behind every successful person is a substantial amount of coffee.
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It’s true! I have indisputable proof of what many in San Diego will never believe. I took the shocking photograph a couple days ago at Petco Park.
For the first time ever in recorded history, that outspoken, highly opinionated San Diego Padres and SDSU Aztecs play-by-play radio announcer Ted Leitner aka Uncle Teddy . . . was left . . . wordless!
For the first time ever in San Diego history, Padres and Aztecs play-by-play announcer Ted Leitner is left wordless!
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It’s raining today. And I’m off from work. So I’ve been sitting at my computer wrestling with words.
I believe I’ve now finished another short story. At least, it seems complete. This story concerns youth, magic, innocence, dreams, the passage of years and what might happen in life. If you’d like to read it, click the following link: Final Real Magic is the title of the story.
We read to know we are not alone. Wise words inscribed in the San Diego Central Library’s large, friendly Reading Room.
Many wise words are digested by hungry minds at the San Diego Public Library. At the Central Library in downtown San Diego, wise sayings and phrases are inscribed upon the building itself. One must simply open eyes to find inspiration.
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.If there’s a book you really want to read but hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. A San Diego Trolley heads down tracks past some wisdom written on the east side of the downtown public library.Yo que me figuraba el paraiso bajo la especie de una biblioteca. From Poem of the Gifts, by Jorge Luis Borges . . . I who had always thought of Paradise in form and image as a library . . .It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.Words inscribed on steps leading to the San Diego Central Library. A portion of Maya Angelou’s On the Pulse of Morning, a poem read during the 1993 Presidential Inauguration.
Women, children, men, take it into the palms of your hands, mold it into the shape of your most private need. Sculpt it into the image of your most public self. Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds new chances for new beginning.
A trolley heads down Park Boulevard past a series of wise sayings and phrases concerning books, libraries and the written word.
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