{"id":7423,"date":"2013-06-17T14:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T19:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2013-06-17T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T19:37:52","slug":"fathers-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=7423","title":{"rendered":"Father’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I know it’s a “Hallmark Card” merchant’s advertising day. Yet I enjoy its effect on my psyche. Days before I think about my dad, and his dad, in unusual ways \u2014 considering whether to put a picture of dad up on the blog, or FaceBook \u2014 then the pictures of dad and grandpa run through my memory. I think about “son-in-laws” and grandchildren; and family trees and broken branches. I wonder what Tanya may have in mind. I imagine Sophia making cards for me and her dad. I wonder what this “father’s day” will be like. I really enjoyed lunch with Tanya at Cafe Corazone<\/a> and thought I’d like to share that dining experience with Ann – so Tanya and I decided – brunch there – at whatever time Ann would like to make it. But Ann had already planned on spending the day with her son Josh on his farm in Eagle. So I met Tanya, Jerome and Sophia at the Cafe a bit before it opened at 10am. A dozen people, in all manner of dress, had also begun to gather there on this warm, sunny, Sunday summer morning.<\/p>\n

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Casual dining on the patio – to be sure\u2026<\/p>\n

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always a delight to share time and space with Sophia\u2026<\/p>\n

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and Jerome\u2026<\/p>\n

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and Tanya\u2026<\/p>\n

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I continue to marvel at the decor (and architecture).<\/p>\n

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After our leisurely, two hour brunch we walked a few blocks South in this newly gentrifying “old” neighborhood. A gallery owned by the artist was hosting a baby shower for a relative \u2014 and so the balloons.<\/p>\n

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The neighborhood is filled with unique touches\u2026<\/p>\n

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A few blocks South\u2026 a small grass lot hosts a little farmer’s market\u2026 a dozen canopies with fresh vegetables, handmade soaps (I bought a bar for Ann), free books<\/a> (I gifted myself with Ambivalent Zen<\/a><\/em>, organically grown meats, handmade wooden kitchen tools<\/a>, fresh bakery and some lovely guitar music\u2026<\/p>\n

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Kimberly A Theisen, makes soap\u2026 get some at katmade.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sophia wanted to move on to the Zoo\u2026 and didn’t like the news\u2026 that it was unlikely\u2026<\/p>\n

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I continued strolling “the old neighborhood” on my own \u2014 after leaving the “farmer’s market.”<\/p>\n

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The Riverwest Neighborhoods host 2 or 3 different micro breweries.<\/p>\n

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Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph<\/p>\n

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Yes, I know it’s a “Hallmark Card” merchant’s advertising day. Yet I enjoy its effect on my psyche. Days before I think about my dad, and his dad, in unusual ways \u2014 considering whether to put a picture of dad up on the blog, or FaceBook \u2014 then the pictures of dad and grandpa run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,32,27,34,17,28,50,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-events","category-family-and-friends","category-people","category-photography","category-travel","category-still-life","category-things","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7467,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}