Glenda Hope is the center of a new and extraordinary documentary by Josh Chuck, seen here at Calvary Presbyterian Church after showing his documentary "Hope in the Streets."  It's really a touching story of good works and caring people in San Francisco, led by Glenda Hope.  I'm too tired (emotionally exhausted) to write more right now, so here's a link:  

https://www.ebar.com/story/170455/Arts%20%26%20Culture/Movies/%E2%80%98Hope%20in%20the%20Streets%E2%80%99%20%E2%80%93%20Documentary%20on%20a%20pioneering%20Tenderloin%20minister%20

Former ESL Student-present and future friend Sandra Pulido made the day!  I'd been excited about seeing Saype's installation "Beyond Walls" at the Yerba Buena Center, but it was no longer there!  You can see our shadows as we examined the traces.  I guess they'd removed it to put up the tents for Indigenous People's Day October 12th, but the Chronicle had promised a longer stay--and it had been "installed" only three days!  But Sandra gave us each a copy of her PhD Dissertation along with the colorful book marks you see here, and Erika and I got to see her, so the day had its rewards!

 

I really am behind on my blog posts--more than a month behind!  I'll write more about this later.
 

 Transit Month, September 2026, got off to a good kickoff at City Hall the very first day of the month.  Here you see the driver (Tim?) referred to by Pete Wilson, not the former governor of California, but the president of the Transit Workers Union Local 250!

Of course as this rally was going on, so were beautiful bridesmaids.

Here's my picnic cart on a deserted trail more west of 14th Avenue than east despite the address of WalkSF's picnic at The Whale's Tail being given as 14th Ave East Picnic Meadow

I don't see why they give such a confusing address when they could just say Enter at Park Presidio Blvd/12th Avenue in the Rose Garden and turn right onto  JFK Promenade, which is what I did after I felt lost here.  Public transportation is right there on Fulton, so that's where people would be getting off the bus.  

 

 

If I were less awed by having this picture of Nancy Pelosi graciously taking my hand, I would have the character to have Thea Selby's picture here first because I think she was the great organizer of this terrific event.  I think I might have time on Monday to give some details, but for now, I'll just share pictures.  

I'll be taking my first official tour of the Salesforce Garden this coming week, but I visited it shortly after it first opened in August 2018.  It opened on August 11th, and I informally toured it on August 16th.  Then it closed six weeks later because of cracked steel beams!  

Initial Opening: August 11, 2018 (closed six weeks later due to cracked steel beams).

Reopening: July 1, 2019, after structural repairs were completed and cleared.

Features: Includes 600 trees and 16,000 plants organized into 13 distinct botanical garden zones along a 0.6-mile walking loop.

I went back with Jenny in August 2019, and in September 2022, I went to a writing workshop there.

I took Jenny back to the Salesforce Park in July 2024th:

Erika, Sandra and I took a walk there this past December during Sandra's winter break:  

My most recent visit there was with Danny Halford's walking group this past May, I think it was: