SeQueL, November 21, 2008 – November 23, 2021
Honoring SeQueL who lived from November 21, 2008 to November 23, 2021. SeQueL’s spirit has guided the Ozdachs for twelve years and her memory will continue to empower and comfort us.
Taking Care of the Poor, San Francisco Style, 2021
There is something humanly disturbing and wrong about how we have decided to NOT handle poor homeless people in need. Here's what I saw on Castro Street last week.
Mother Nature and the Side Fence
Just a fun observation. Back in March, 2018 we noticed a small volunteer growing in a small crack in the concrete on our side fence. The little guy is looking pretty healthy three years later!
Deaths Beyond Counting
A house on the 700 block of Waller caught my attention in June. As I walked by I noticed that the residents were displaying the current US COVID death toll in their front windows. Stickies formed the numbers of today's total in one window while the other front window showed yesterday's toll. The windows on a residential street shocked in contrast to the cool, remote news reports of the pandemic's impact. I walked by several times on my morning treks, watching the numbers grow, until on June 27 I decided the non-panoramic scene should be preserved as another Sign of [...]
1828 Days Later
Yesterday I completed my fifth year of doing at least 30 continuous minutes of exercise a day. That means today's five-mile outdoor walk was my 1828th day of exercise in a row. As I've said before, this consistency is Doug Wilcoxen's fault. Doug and I were at the opposite ends of Wig Hall at Pomona College our freshman year. The dorm geography meant although I liked Doug, we weren't close friends. I just knew that he was very bright and we shared a definite label of "Not a jock". When Doug posted on Facebook in late 2015 that he was [...]