oakland x better than berkeley better than san francisco 030930 ... nomatter barry zito 030930 ... x i don't want to leave you but i don't want to stay 040102 ... daxle nowhere else I'd rather live 070417 ... Ouroboros home 090827 ... unhinged the street i live on - oakland ave. the bus i take - 15 oakland/kinnickinnic 090828 ... ergo Stomping tonight on the Oakland/Berkeley border. 090828 ... h|s|g Sac. Redwoods. Cisco. Travels will take me soon. 110107 ... ergo I'm at the bay and north of the bay from the 16th thru 26th. 110107 ... h|s|g traveling 10 th rough ly the 14th 110107 ... h|s|g K, y u B in the bay area? 110107 ... ergo I lived there all of my adult life until I came east to take care of my mom who has Alzheimer's. I've been in Jersey for nearly 5 years now. I try to go back once or twice a year to reconnect with people and to soak in the hottest spring I know of. I dissolves. 110107 ... Ouroboros harbin? 110125 ... ergo Yes, Harbin to restore myself, but it's Oakland where my thoughts are now. You have stolen NYC's thunder and are doing wonders. We may have disrupted traffic for a few hours on the Brooklyn Bridge, but out in Oakland you've shut down the port for a day. Keep it coming! This is not a protest, this is change. 111103 ... jane ((harbin is a wonderful place to recharge.)) 111104 ... flowerock duck_and_cover maybe I've only seen the worst of it. 140628 ... unhinged encountro my brother is the chef there; the other night his special sold out my mother said she actually preferred his house in oakland. it was a nicer house, he had nicer roommates, and he knew, spoke to, borrowed things from his neighbors, was part of the community. violence happens in the city too honey 140628 ... flowerock this is true. I have only encountered that level of violence in oakland though so far. Shooting across the street, out side the apartment, offered drugs I don't do left and right... just seemed that sort if thing was all there was. Oakland deserves a fair chance. the city so far has been just as challenging, kicking my ass in different ways. I am not a city person, so I m sure I am over sensitive to these things, too. 140628 ... flowerock you know, people are nicer in oakland, more real I think. the city seems to make me a little impatient and judgmental. 140628 ... unhinged exactly the city is where all the silicon valley fuckers come to throw their money around which makes everything so expensive 90% of people cant afford to live there here people use amazon as the excuse to overcharge for everything 140628 ... unhinged and gang violence is not random by the way; sometimes innocents get caught in the crossfire but the bangers arent pointing their guns at you 140628 ... flowerock You are right unhinged most of the shooting has a target unrelated to the general public...and it is expensive... I'm here because my hearmatte wants to be here and I wanto be where he is. I am learning. I am developing a shell and adjusting my heart, learning to trust more carefully and kess freely. scams abound. 140628 ... unhinged i came to seattle cause it was as close as i could get to the bay with a trustworthy person i love. i found a monastery in seattle that houses a tibetan lama one lineage away from the dalai lama who is 86. i need to start practicing like my hair is on fire. the pacific northwest is another reality. even the plants are different 140628 ... unhinged (the first time i stayed with my brother in the city, we stumbled across a crackhead with a crowbar trying to pry open his roommates car door after we had been bar hopping in the tenderloin. thankfully my bro was realtively sober. he chased the guy away by giving him a cigarette. i blacked out that night after driving from the tenderloin to the sunset after a day of weed and tequila. i trust my brother to keep me safe infinitely. he hasnt let me down yet) 140628 what's it to you? who go blather from