Thanksgiving Day, 2010

Neighbor Killing Neighbor...in the Inner Sunset.

The group called The Inner Sunset Park Neighbors has been doing great work , until now.

Now they have mounted a Campaign to Kill their Neighbor at their eastern boundary:

The HANC (Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council) recycle center...at Frederick and Arguello....

You can Google it, or read the bloody story in today's SF Chronicle.

Very sad way to manifest Neighborliness. I am told tha ISPN has plans for how they will use this space, once the corpse of the 35 year young Recycle Center is hauled off and buried.

445 Lawton, #3

We need to be part of a "Village".

I live in San Francisco, California. The smaller area of S.F., where my home is...is called "The Inner Sunset District". It is one of the three segments of "The Sunset District", the other two being the Mid-Sunset, and the Outer-Sunset.

Four years ago, my wife and I and our daughter bought a condo in Huron Village, in Cambridge, Mass, where Heather goes to school. ... Right from the start, thinking of Huron Village gave us a "warm and fuzzy feeling". We felt an identification with the other members of Huron Village, a kinship... It felt like "its own entity", even though it is just a mile north of Harvard.

Last year, just for fun, I googled "Huron Village", and was delighted to see some clips on YOU TUBE, about Huron Village. One of the villagers had gone around with a cameraman friend, and interviewed his fellow vilagers, to get a handle on the gist of being a member of Huron Village.

If you have a minute, please do that google search, and see that video, to get this idea.

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Although I have now lived in the Inner Sunset District, for 40 years,... I do not get that same "identification" that I do, when we are visiting the kiddo in Huron Village, which, if it had a Village ball team, I would feel impelled to root for, as they represented My Village, ...not just my shopping district.

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So: this blog is an attempt to see if folks in S.F. , and in particular, my neighbors, right around me, would be open to having the S.F. Planning Dept re-envision my immediate area as "Inner Sunset Village". I want to be able to go down to Big Rec ball field, and root for my Inner Sunset Village Whippets... My neighborhood is more than an "economic unit", more than a shopping district. We are family. We, in fact, are members of the same Village. We just don't think of it in those words. We should. No?