3 juli 2004 Archives

Change is good; flux is good. Change, often countenanced by yours truly in these pages, is not merely necessary, it simply is. So why not run with it?

This is how I typically operate: bring on the changes! That's easier to say when the change hasn't walked into your home, mixing up the chewy center of the big gay bon-bon that is your life.

But this is like complaining that you've just eaten way too much food when you know there are people out there who never get enough...or like sanctimoniously whinging that your taxes are too high when you already have more money than you'll ever know what to do with.

So if I don't get done all the things I need to do for tomorrow's Welcome Home for the Boy, I hope my friends will forgive the state of the home: it's a moving target.

This morning at Cafe Commons, Tom Ammiano was behind me in line. Now, Soonae, one of the proprietors, knows everyone's names here. It's not that she makes a point of it, she just has this splendid ability to instantly remember all she sees. She and I are a lot alike in that, but her talent is much stronger.

The way that Mr. Ammiano talks to her, talks to anyone around the neighborhood shows what a kind and decent man he is. I've voted for him in every election race he's run and I'm proud of that, often proud of San Francisco through him and his efforts, and glad of the coincidence that he lives right down the street from me.

I don't want to say he's neighborly in his comportment, because that sounds like a political pose: he's just a nice neighbor.