Art in rancho land
Last spring I was walking home and I passed a young boy with a table on a corner. A sign hanging down from the table read, “Art for Sale.” I am not prone to ignore an art installation or a pop up gallery and so I approached the table and saw three pieces of art.…
Rancho Land: no joke
I walk almost every day. The length of my walk depends on my available time and the heat of the sun. While I enjoy the exercise, my motivation is usually based on Audible. I am currently “reading” four books. One fiction, two books on social justice matters and one book for my endless research of…
LUPE
Lupe I went for a walk ten days ago which I assumed would be one of the longer walks since I was up for it. But when I reached Fairfax, the heat and the sticky beat down on my plans and I chose to do the regular size walk. As I headed home…
Saving Beverly Hot Springs!
Last month I cried when I read Frances Anderton DNA newsletter and heard her report on KCRW that plans were brewing which would destroy one of Los Angeles’ most beloved Koreatown cultural icons; Beverly Hot Springs. These hot springs, discovered 120 years ago and the spa, one of the first Korean Spas in Los Angeles,…
RANCHO: Snowy Owl
When Snowy Owl arrived a few weeks ago in Cypress, it created a lot of commotion since they do not travel this far south or west. How the artic bird got here is unknown. A storm, a container ship or was Snowy Owl someone’s (illegal) pet? This weekend I saw that my friend Scott Templeton went to…
Misty in Rancho La Brea
Misty on Monday and on Community On Monday, March 13, I woke up tired. I had a weekend of advocacy where I pushed for more solar panels in CA and worked with friends fighting for public education. Both are a heavy lift, which I am up to do. But when I woke up on Monday,…
9/11 in Rancho Land
On the morning of September 11, 2001, my husband Charlie and I were in our home in Rancho La Brea. While we slept, two planes left Logan airport in Boston and one plane left Dulles in DC, all three were bound for Rancho Sausal Redondo. Around the same time, a Boeing 757 took off from Newark with…
Rancho KinDNESS
Up to this point, all my posts on Rancho Land pivot between what was then and what is now and are replete with interior hyperlinks connecting to additional research. That is not the case with this story. It is not steeped in history. There are no links to additional research. However, it does tap into something that…
Park La BREA – finding the sticky
Last week I took two trips to Park La Brea. I visited friends and I saw the memorial for Jose Tomas Mejia who was killed June 16 at the complex. Whenever I enter Park La Brea, I am awash with strong feelings. It is hard to navigate the roads and walkways without bumping into ghost memories that come from…
Of fruit and masks and opening up in rancho land June 15, 2021
Today at midnight California lifted all covid related restrictions. I went out into the world and did errands and for the first time since March of 2020 I went out knowing I could do it without a mask. It was an odd mixture of excitement and strangeness to not wear the mask. I realized today was the perfect…
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