5 p.m.
The Canals were beautiful today. Warm, and a little balmy, the weather was perfect for a cruise around what used to be called San Francisco - now officially The SF Canals. Since The Rising of 0-17 The Canals are a major attraction for some quiet urban time. I don't think I ever realized what incredible preparation it took for the people of that time to make the city resilient enough to handle the floods! If they hadn't prepared properly and in enough time the buildings would have all been intensely compromised and may not have withstood the encroaching water. As it is we floated effortlessly from museum to museum in a quaint Venetian gondola (SF was always known for its aesthetics! Nice to know that will never change!) I can't even imagine what it must have been like to have been in that city in the Fossil Fuel era! It must have been a nightmare! Cars, noise, fumes, overpopulation... I don't know how those people ever did it.
Anyway... The Theater of Eternal Voices may have been my favorite part of the day. Every year around this time an artist performs a day long concert in just intoned scales. The soft lights are triggered by the shifting overtones into an evanescent display that made me feel as if I were floating in a galaxy as it was being born. We only stayed for three hours. I could have stayed all day. I love the feeling of expansiveness that I get with that music. (That's why I always start my day with a tuning...) I'll have to make a point of getting back next year.
