“On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail.
Reasons the card, but passion the gale.”
Alexander Pope
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Category Archives: November
Sunwise Co-op in Davis
“A garden requires patient labor and attention.
Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or
to fulfill good intentions.
They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”
Liberty Hyde Bailey
On my trip to Davis I learned about an amazing community. While I was taking a short walk through the neighborhood where I was visiting, I discovered the Sunwise Co-op community.
Sunwise Co-op was built in the early 1970s by a group of UC Davis students from the on-campus cooperative houses. These students had a vision of how the future of Sunwise should be.
The students wanted a place in the community where low-income individuals could live together in an ecologically sensitive, sustainable, vegetarian, organic, collective manner. The founders of Village Homes, Michael and Judy Corbett, shared this vision and provided the land that would become the home of the Sunwise Co-op in Davis.
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The Will To Help Others
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and
to show compassion and the will to help others.”
Albert Schweitzer
Paris EMTs help the injured during the terror attacks on November 13, 2015.
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Winters Wonderland
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Confucius
We arrived in Davis, California early Saturday morning around 1am.
This morning I decided to explore the town of Winters. It’s just a short thirty minute drive outside of Davis.
Theodore Winters, for whom the city of Winters was named, was described in an early issue of the Winters Advocate in 1876 as a “capitalist.” You can learn more about the history of Winters at their website.
As I drove along Russell Boulevard headed for Winters, I stopped and took some photos of the beautiful fall scenery.
The following are a few shots I took of the small quaint town of Winters, California.
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The Town of Davis
“Open up that golden gate
California, Here I Come.”
Al Jolson
Well fellow bloggers, I’m headed up to Davis, California once again. Except this time, my son and I are traveling to Davis in our new 2016 Honda Accord.
A few weeks ago my husband and I bought a new car. Our old Honda Accord was on its last wheels, so to speak. After 13 years, and over 200,000 miles, it was time for a new car.
With the purchase of our new Honda, I was wondering how long it would take my son to invite me up to Davis again. Of course he will be doing all the driving in the new car which is fine by me. I’m looking forward to spending time with my son and the cooler weather and beautiful autumn colors of the town of Davis.
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