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Recent Microposts and Posts at tomwilson.com
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Nightfall after a surprisingly good tip-the-fridge dinner. Tomorrow evening we’ll be home.
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While Dwight jogged, I wandered around the Palm Springs "mini financial district" with its listed mid-century bank buildings. This monument to mammon is influenced by Le Corbusier's UNESCO-World-Heritage-listed chapel at Ronchamp, France.
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Categories: Architecture, California
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Watched the sun set over San Jacinto from our balcony. The area in the foreground looks like jungle, but it’s residential. An ordinance prevents buildings from overlooking neighbors’ swimming pools.
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Complex Surfaces: Man and Disk; carbon fiber, automotive paint, Dwight; Palm Springs Art Museum. Elsewhere little kids interacted with art, giggling uncontrollably at breasts in a painting. Some adults walked, talked, oblivious to their surroundings.
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Categories: Arts, California
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Paid 50 cents senior fare to ride a city bus to Desert Hot Springs on the other side of Coachella Valley. Walked through a land of strip malls. This honors a childhood tradition: my Aunt and I would ride a bus to the end of the line to see what was there; usually not much.
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Crossing Roads Gratefully
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Crossed the road in the steps of people who bring our community together. Actually crossed many roads, grateful my errant knee felt good after 7,000 steps.
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Categories: California, In This Together
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Today I’m reading about the opening up of Japan to the world from 1853 to 1873: Western gunboat diplomacy, the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the beginning of the Meiji era, a time of rapid change and modernization. This period keeps popping up on my Japan travels, it’s interesting.
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Categories: Japanese Concepts, Read
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