My four year old is not whining, just curious as we stand in front of one of our favorite farm stands at the Saturday market. “Is it because they are from another country?”
He currently works as a clown, making balloon animals for tips at weekend street fairs and farmers markets. But for a lot of years he made money playing music on the street. In the 1970s he moved from his native Boston to San Francisco, where one night he got the best tip of his life.
that help keep traffic flowing across the Oakland Bay Bridge. The lights cascade and wink, answering to the rhythms and patterns created by artist Leo Villarreal.
Several days each week, I am drawn into my kitchen to begin again a process that feels ancient as earth. There are reasons for this. Bread is history— for people who find their roots in Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa, there are also roots in bread making.
