Little Lambs - yummie
Namntoppen 2010
The (not) so secret life of Gandhi
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| Gandhi is to the left and Kallenbach to the right. Gandhi's secrerary, Sonia Schlesin, is in the center. |
Gandhi's love of his life was a German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder, Hermann Kallenbach, for whom Gandhi left his wife in 1908. "Your portrait (the only one) stands on my mantelpiece in my bedroom," he wrote to Kallenbach. "The mantelpiece is opposite to the bed." For some reason, cotton wool and Vaseline were "a constant reminder" of Kallenbach, which might relate to the enemas Gandhi gave himself, although there could be other, less generous, explanations.
Gandhi wrote to Kallenbach about "how completely you have taken possession of my body. This is slavery with a vengeance." Gandhi nicknamed himself "Upper House" and Kallenbach "Lower House," and he made Lower House promise not to "look lustfully upon any woman." The two then pledged "more love, and yet more love . . . such love as they hope the world has not yet seen."
They were parted when Gandhi returned to India in 1914, since the German national could not get permission to travel to India during wartime—though Gandhi never gave up the dream of having him back, writing him in 1933 that "you are always before my mind's eye." Later, on his ashram, where even married "inmates" had to swear celibacy, Gandhi said: "I cannot imagine a thing as ugly as the intercourse of men and women."
nice bod - wrong head
Goodbye - for now
Our last lunch in Frisco we spend in Lafayette with Karen & Tom. The weather was picture perfect and it was a very nice and happy last couple of hours of our quick visit to the states. We took the BART back to SFO and had a very smooth and swift flight back home.
Olmec - masterworks of ancient Mexico
Sunday in sunny Frisco
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| Calder @ SFMOMA - notice the color coordination... |
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| view from the The Young tower |
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| Sunday Lindy Free Swing Dancing party @ the GG park |
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| the conservatory |
Bicycles in San Francisco
Sunny SF
At the Cheese Cake Factory on top of Macy's Union Square with the first glimpse of blue sky in days.
Citizen of the year dinner - the official pictures :-)
Thanks to Meg and Jake for the pictures. It was funny to see people whole dressed up whom you previously only knew in bathing gear...
All set for the ceremony
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| dress code - business casual :-) |
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| the reception was packed |
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| wow - this really looks official stuff |
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| Mason making last moment alterations in his speech |
Hundreds of people from Lafayette were gathered to pay Karen tribute. It was a fun, emotional and official dinner where the "nine lifes" of Karen were explained by friends, family and local dignitaries. It turned out that Karen made quite an impact of this city with your work at the schools, library and other institutions. And it was very nice and moving to see that this work is being recognized.
Also it was nice to meet the family and friends and the whole evening was something not to forget.
Breakfast in Lafayette
So Karen, Tom and Meg were all aware of our coming to the citizen of the year dinner - the only one we could surprise was Mason. Which we did at breakfast the day after we arrived. I was surprised by the very modest breakfast he had ;-)
White iPad 2.0 - A no go!
On our way to Frisco
A couple of weeks ago we found out that Karen Mulvany, whom we met @ the Galapagos Islands while on our National Geographic Expedition, is voted to be 'Citizen of the year' of her hometown Lafayette (near San Francisco). While it has been a year or so since I was in SF it seemed a perfect excuse to fly over and celebrate the occasion with Karen and her friends and family. It should have been a surprise - but as everything else in this age of Wikileaks our coming somehow was revealed to Karen... Maybe for the better, otherwise she would have had such a shock that she probably would not have recovered. In the mean time Eddie and I made such a huge shopping list that the only thing we will do in SF is shop till we drop. (As it turns out that is one of my favorite things to do!). BA flew us comfortable in our beds.
Glenn Ligon
Stille Omgang - Silent Procession
A man was dying in the Kalverstraat and called for a priest to give him the last rites. After he eat the holy bread he had to throw up and when his vomit was put into the fire - the holy bread hoovered above the fire - clearly an act of god! ;-)
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