Help Me De-Clutter

On a San Francisco Vistas blog, I should really be posting pictures of yesterday's excursion, taking Javier and me on the #28 Fort Mason bus to Fulton and Park Presidio to look for statuary represented in the paintings by Robert Minervini at bus shelters on Market.  This is what we found--one easily and accidentally, the other with some effort because no one we talked to knew about Lloyd lake, and there's no map at the deYoung that shows where all statues are.  (I've sent for a book, recommended by Lesley Stahls, a friend who knows the park very well and gives tours of the Botanical Garden:  San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories.)

But I need help dealing with the clutter on my desk and am once again asking for your support.  (You are the world that never writes to me.  I see that after four years I have zero followers.)  

I'll keep Walgreen's free Diabetes Magazine not just for its catchy name but for its recipe for Smoky Mediterranean Beet Burgers.  That will go in a little pile to be taken to the kitchen along with Whole Foods Catering pamphlet, and both will go on my recipe books bookshelves or in my recipe bottom drawer.  

The Tours of the Strand with Friday, May 15 circled, will go up on the refrigerator, so same pile.

The ACT 4x7" postcard for A Little Night Music should go in my to-do pile.  

Should I keep the op-ed piece by Matt Haber "S.F. Works Its Magic on a New Yorker" to put in Jonathan's Christmas stocking or just send him the link?  I think I'll put it in a file that I have, for some reason, labeled "Jonathan's Typing."   (I've put it in, but I did catch a glimpse of a note card I made of an early cassette recording on which Jonathan was chanting "The people united will never be defeated," singing "Chazu Bao" and reciting "Gung Hay Fat Choi." )

Earthweek:  a diary of the planet" was especially interesting the week ending April 24, so I kept that.  It has the usual record heat persisting and eruptions (Chile's Calbuco volcano), the primitive diversity of bacteria in indigenous people in Venezuela's Amazon who were isolated for a long time,  Especially interesting was the worm rain in Norway and New Zealand's program to eradicate rates, possums and stoats (?) by placing poison traps.  

I have something on a 1936 Buick from April 17, 2015!  I tore it out of the newspaper to share with a former boyfriend who used to take me out in his family's Buick of about that vintage, which was already special in 1962 and 1963!

The handouts on "CCSF Pacific Islanders Club"  "Critical Pacific Islands Studies" brochure that were given out the day I met a friend on campus for another reason (Project Survive) and notices the big San Francisco Day at the Wellness Center.  I'll put these in my CCSF collection along with "Build Your Future/Study English" from the ESL Department and VIDA's "Undocumented & Educated."  Also a page-long flyer on "Super Student Club"  

A Fidelity statement giving my ending balance as $0.00.    Oh, but I had made dividends & interest of $50.23.  Should I have reported that?  

The United Cerebral Palsy has a pickup for Clothing & Household Items + e-waste on Thursday, May 7.  

Some old hour-by-hour accounts I use to show how I use time.  Recycling bin. 

A mailing for Coral Zanin, my tenant back in the days when I upped the rent from $500 to $550.

Hurwitt's review of Beautiful Chaos:  A Life in the Theatre  Since I'm reading that now, I think I'll put the clipping in the book itself.  

A Senior Citizen Exemption Application Form from the Quality Teacher & Education Act.  Gee!  I'm eligible.  But this is the 2008 act that provides money to the SF School District.  

A solicitation from Habitat for Humanity.  When did I last donate to that?

Nevius' report on his sewer plant field trip "Go with the flow:  a smelly sojourn" & a report on the closing of Heald College--like the closing of 750 Eddy, with no prior warning.  

VIDA's invitation to their "Third Annual Dream Graduation"  I should probably send them the photos I took.  

Various solicitations and a CREDO bill of only $4.64. 

At the Library for May 2015

A notice from Pacific Gas and Electric that work on a natural gas pipeline is beginning in my neighborhood.  14-18 Avenues between Ulloa and Vicente.  

To be continued.