Week 5, December 2009
I’m publishing the events list early this week so that some of these recommendations can be seen in time for you all to actually get to them. Since this will be the last Weekend Wanderings commentary for 2009 I want to express my thanks to those of you who read the comments and check out the events list and of course also those of you who comment upon the Pic of the Week. It was the year 2009 that I changed the format of Weekend Wanderings from a weekly email to a daily blog and I appreciate those of you who have taken time to check out the site on days other than the usual Thursday publication. It’s an interesting experience to manage the content through this medium and I hope to continue to make improvements to it in 2010. Pointing out the stories I see in the finance news and adding a few remarks has become a broader experience for me today than it once was. I see stories unfold told by some writers I admire and by some whose appeal I find quite dubious, and I try to piece it together now almost every day so that you can see some of what fuels finance in America. I’ll admit it’s sometimes a painful exercise— one that will get your cockles up, so to speak. But ultimately it’s we citizens who consciously choose a system where it’s up to us to keep an eye on what’s going on, and it’s we citizens who must speak up when we see lending run amuck such as we have clearly seen. My promise for 2010 is that I will keep my eyes pealed and I will keep on pointing out what I see so that we can all reinforce a system that relies upon rules made BY the people and FOR the people. My best wishes to you all in 2010!
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Weekend Wanderer’s Events
…finding the treasures in your town and beyond.
Two for This Weekend:
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!: Permanent exhibitions at the Charles M. Shulz Museum in Santa Rosa include the original wall from their Colorado Springs home upon which Mr. Shulz drew the Peanuts characters in his daughter’s bedroom, Mr. Schulz’s studio permanently installed and reproduced as it was, an outdoor labyrinth where you can walk through Snoopy’s head, and more. This New Year’s Eve day they are having a root beer toast at noon for the kids.
New Year’s Eve: Quintessential Chaplin: At Grace Cathedral atop of Nob Hill in San Francisco… “Start the New Year funny with 90 minutes of classic Charlie Chaplin short films: The Cure, The Immigrant, and The Adventurer. Famed New York organist Dorothy Papadakos will accompany the films on the cathedral’s renowned Aeolian-Skinner organ.” Two showings, one at 7:00 pm and the other at 10:00 pm. I highly recommend the experience as I attended a showing of Phantom of the Opera there on New Year’s Eve two years ago. Great place for this sort of film experience; amazing to just listen to the organ in that incredible sanctuary.
Help Your Fellow Living Beings:
A Place at the Table: Saturday the 2nd of the year and Sunday the 3rd day of the year you can join Hands On Bay Area in assisting St. Anthony’s with their Emergency Food Assistance Program passing out bags of groceries on Saturday and with helping Glide Memorial Church with making sandwiches and bagged lunches to pass out in the Tenderloin on Sunday. Both are great ways to start off a new year of compassionate awareness. Check ‘em out if you’re looking for something meaningful on this level for the new year.
Two Weekends from Now:
A Prairie Home Companion Live Broadcast from San Francisco: If you’re a fan of the fantastically dry wit of Garrison Keilor and the Prairie Home Companion public radio show that’s been bringing down home laughs and entertainment for 30 years, you can attend live broadcast performances on both Saturday the 9th and on Saturday the 16th of January at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. If you’re unfamiliar, check out the film made just a few years ago called Prairie Home Companion. It’s really an American treasure.
Pic of the Week… from my phone camera:
That’s me… wishing you a Happy New Year! 