I saw Joanna Newsom play twice my senior year of high school, both times in smallish, dark bars (Bloomington, IN and Lawrence, KS) with lots of background noise (talking, clanking, etc.) and not many fans. Tonight, five and a half years later, I enjoyed each beautiful note resonating in the dreamy (sold out) venue that is the historic Sixth & I Synagogue. She and her band put on one hell of a performance.
All Songs Considered was there, live streaming the audio. Soon the whole thing can be heard on this website: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124711752
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
It is finally spring. Thank goodness.
Becky, Evan, Tara and Meghan all came to visit for their respective spring breaks. I love LOVE living in a destination city - not to say that these friends WOULDN'T come see me if I lived somewhere boring, but the tremendous amount of things to do in DC can't hurt. I went to a few places for the first time too, including the top of the old post office, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and Busboys & Poets on 14th St. It was also really nice to have my worlds collide - Meghan had only met Becky once, briefly but otherwise B,E&T didn't know her. And isn't it the best when you know really good people and then they meet each other?? I like building webs of support and community that cross state (and country) lines.
I could have started a pity party yesterday morning after I took Tara to the airport, but instead I spent most of the weekend outside! Yesterday I joined folks from City Blossoms and Common Good City Farms, Bread for the City and others at a new community garden in Shaw. We cleaned up, weeded, hoed, mulched and planted a few things. It was so nice to get dirty and meet some new people. I also cleaned up my house and my room, then took my inaugural DC bike ride over to Columbia Heights. Today I got back on Old Blue and went to the immigration reform march down 16th St. to the rally on the mall. I got a little bit of a sunburn from the two days combined. I've been wearing shorts! It's been really wonderful.
Right now I'm chilling out a little bit, camping out in front of CSPAN to follow the health care reform coverage and working on a more detailed document of what our nutrition class is going to be covering on Thursday in an effort to convince Michelle Obama to come.
Oh yeah, I'm trying to get Michelle Obama to come to my clinic on Thursday. Read more here: http://dcfoodforall.com/2010/03/mrs-obama-come-to-perry-family-health-center/
That's not all that's going on in my life, but there's a small update. I left out the bad news, of which there isn't much.
Becky, Evan, Tara and Meghan all came to visit for their respective spring breaks. I love LOVE living in a destination city - not to say that these friends WOULDN'T come see me if I lived somewhere boring, but the tremendous amount of things to do in DC can't hurt. I went to a few places for the first time too, including the top of the old post office, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and Busboys & Poets on 14th St. It was also really nice to have my worlds collide - Meghan had only met Becky once, briefly but otherwise B,E&T didn't know her. And isn't it the best when you know really good people and then they meet each other?? I like building webs of support and community that cross state (and country) lines.
I could have started a pity party yesterday morning after I took Tara to the airport, but instead I spent most of the weekend outside! Yesterday I joined folks from City Blossoms and Common Good City Farms, Bread for the City and others at a new community garden in Shaw. We cleaned up, weeded, hoed, mulched and planted a few things. It was so nice to get dirty and meet some new people. I also cleaned up my house and my room, then took my inaugural DC bike ride over to Columbia Heights. Today I got back on Old Blue and went to the immigration reform march down 16th St. to the rally on the mall. I got a little bit of a sunburn from the two days combined. I've been wearing shorts! It's been really wonderful.
Right now I'm chilling out a little bit, camping out in front of CSPAN to follow the health care reform coverage and working on a more detailed document of what our nutrition class is going to be covering on Thursday in an effort to convince Michelle Obama to come.
Oh yeah, I'm trying to get Michelle Obama to come to my clinic on Thursday. Read more here: http://dcfoodforall.com/2010/03/mrs-obama-come-to-perry-family-health-center/
That's not all that's going on in my life, but there's a small update. I left out the bad news, of which there isn't much.
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