So I’m having a simple mid-week summer day without much on my schedule save lunch in San Rafael with the new development director at Spirit Rock, my Buddhist temple.
But while I’m having this nice little day, there’s a big change becoming official: today marks the very last day that the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is located at 1201 Ortega Street. From now on, it’s 50 Oak Street.
Needless to say this has been coming for a long time, but still: I’ve been hanging around 1201 Ortega since 1974. Thirty-two years in one building, and I’ve probably spent more time there than anywhere else, including home. And now, no more. As of today there is no conceivable reason for me to go to the corner of Ortega and 19th Street. I will get out to Irving & Funston for shopping (Andronico’s) and sometimes I go to Stonestown (malls are convenient, dammit, even when you’re a fully-conditioned San Franciscan.) But that’s about it.
So a little thinking about dividing lines, boundaries, all that. But in the meantime it’s a perfectly ordinary, unchallenging summer day. Change works that way.