Shoe, Berkeley, CA.
I asked his big sister to help get us out the door faster by putting his shoes and socks on. This was what she considered “done.”

Belly swingers, Berkeley, CA.
Archival image from about a half a year (and one significant boy haircut) ago. Swinging predilections and techniques remain as depicted.

Boy with pinkie, Berkeley, CA.

“Martin Luther King Jr, Birmingham Alabama, 1963,” by Ernst Haas.
One of my favorite photographs of Dr. King. Given the year and the setting (a jail), I think we can be fairly sure this was not just any jail, but a Birmingham one, and that the text being passed was one which included Dr. King’s now [...]

Weekend morning reading, Berkeley, CA.

Singer-songwriter, Arnold, CA.
Will I let him go on tour before he’s finished high school? S’pose that depends on whether he’s willing to give Baba the comfy seat on the tour bus.

Woman hazarding a cameraphone photo of the swing chair, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen (November 2005).
Definitely not black & white. More like black & color.
UN Climate Change Conference roundups since my last links thereto: Day four, day five, day six, day seven.

Moonrise over San Geronimo Valley, Marin County, CA.
I know, it’s not quite black and white. Neither is life, sometimes.