Its 6:32pm, July 2nd. Exactly three years ago, at this exact moment, I crossed the city limits into San Francisco. Only a few weeks prior, I had come to San Francisco for the first time in my life with my best friend Jason Tate. Like any good friend would, I abandoned the road trip to Seattle I promised to take with Jason and decided to stay in San Francisco for another few days because I couldnt bear the thought of leaving. Little did Jason realize, only hours after he left me in the City, I had met up with a nice breeder couple in Excelsior from Craigslist and signed a 3 month lease that was to start on July 1st. Ill never forget how it felt to see San Francisco for the first time. It wasnt a feeling of awe at the city itself, but a powerful sense that this was where I belonged and that for the first time in my life I was home. When I moved to San Francisco, I knew no one except my friend Ethan from high school who was down in Santa Clara (A special thanks to Ethan for his role in my relocation to SF... He knows what he did :D ). Now, three years later I am incredibly grateful for every friendship Ive made and no matter how busy our lives get or how far away some of you may move... Ill never love any other people in the world like the family that Ive made for myself here in the City by the Bay. To conclude, my favorite quote of all time. Nothing more perfectly describes how I feel about San Francisco... Theres a theory that we are all Atlanteans. Who? Us. San Franciscans. Edgar grinned indulgently, bracing himself for another yarn... Well, in one of our last incarnations, we were all citizens of Atlantis. All of us. You, me, Frannie, DeDe, Mary Ann... We all lived in this lovely enlightened kingdom that sank beneath the sea a long time ago. Now weve come back to this special Peninsula on the edge of the continent... because we know, in a secret corner of our minds, that we must return together to the sea. The earthquake. Dont you see? You said the earthquake, not an earthquake. Youre expecting it. Were all expecting it. So what does that have to do with Atlantis? The Transamerica Pyramid for one thing. Huh? Dont you know what dominated the skyline of Atlantis, Edgar... the thing that loomed over everything? He shook his head. A pyramid! An enormous pyramid with a beacon burning at the top.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 01:51:56 +0000
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