One problem with virtual quakerdom is that RantWoman is down quite a bit on usual Sunday exercise. This past Sunday RantWoman needed a call to do something about that. Here are samplings from sights along parts of RantWoman's travel routes.
Friends who need a mantra for the travels may consider "safe continuous travel networks for all modes and travelers of all abilities." Okay it's too long for a mantra. Assuming anyone aware of RantWoman's lack of gifts in the realm of singing were willing to let RantWoman near further choral composition, out might pop something along the lines of "why today's RantWoman worries a lot less about nuclear war and a lot more about sidewalks than the RantWoman of previous years and what all this has to do with fighting climate change." Today, though, we are doing choral compositions. We are doing walking meditations from the clangy crumbly sidewalk corners of Planet RantWoman near Meeting.
First legs of journey: Walker St past the Got Green garden tothe bus stop to catch the 48 bus. Ride to the last stop at 15th Ave NE and NE 42nd, of not for one thing because that intersection is NOT that RantWoman remembers a hot spot on the city's map of car vs ped crashes in the U district.
Next sight: Magus books a fabulous used book store whose titles in the window and on shleves int eh sidewalk always tempt RantWoman to pretend that trying to read regular print is anywhere near realistic.
Next, a rogression from a "Notice of Proposed Land Use action documented elsewhere in this blog. Presently, the progession a big hole that will turn into something taller and modern at 12th Ave NE. The big hole is surrounded by chain link fence and crumbling sidewalk.
No picture because RantWoman was too busy dodging the weird protruding supports for the chain link fence around the construction site and the crappy sidewalk due to construction vehicles
Proceding to Roosevelt, the bench that isn't any more, because clearly the modern rule of urban environments is that if any piece of humanizing infra might possibly be used by either the unhoused or the transit dependent house, it must be removed.
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| There used to be a bench here |
A great patch over some tree root vs sidewalk issues
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| Tree sidewalk tar patch |
A bench that it would be hard to take away but deisgned not to stretch out on.
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| A Bench that would be hard to take away |
Open doors for worship
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| Meetinghouse, the view from the bench |
Don't be late. There might be worship happening but late arrivals not welcome. Okayyyy thinks RantWoman who gets places on time on the bus and is sometimes annoyed when for example more than one member of Worship and Ministry flounces in ..LATE.
And we will not even go near need for places for people to pee on weekends.
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| The vegetation is still lovely |
Closed doors with homeless guys
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| Homeless neighbors chatting |
Scooter guy
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| Scooter rider checking phone while in the street. |
Purple azalea
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| Purple Azalea Public Right of way |
Another bench that isn't anymore
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| Who needs windows or a bench at the bus shelter? |
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