J. Crew?

No, J. Dub.

Flynn City

school foyer

One-day Cleanse

With a little help from the great Got Junk truck, we managed to dump the depris and diesel from the garage and cleared the former tenants' garbage (you can't even imagine)from the school space. With his trio of new trusty ladders, jw discovered a treasure of trash in a not-so-nice nook in the ceiling, including a foam mattress, slide projector and a heap of rubble. All clear for the start of construction; not to mention plenty of parking. Ahhhh....

reclamation

with the wave of a magic wand (and much creative thought and elbow grease), we hope to quickly convert this current sty into the new home of ashtanga yoga san francisco.

Introducing....

marketing in the making...see also, ashtangayogasanfrancisco

Get Well, Guruji

Took a break from the Page Project to be with our teacher, Pattabhi Jois, and support his recovery from a sudden bout of blood-sugar imbalance and infection. Saw him safely out of the hospital and into his bed at home, where we hear he is improving, slowly slowly. We wish our 92-yr-old guru, a picture of unwavering strength and determintation, a full and speedy recovery!

The Plan

So, we’ve got our project; all we need is a plan. Tiptoeing even further into the frightening world of the mature and responsible, we interviewed a handful of architects – three Johns and a James. They ranged from young and enthusiastic to severely modern and extreme (“tear it down to studs, lift the entire building and see where it cracks”) and even a small-world story, friend of the family who fell somewhere in between. We chose a guy both practical and edgy, excited and inspired: John Lum. (His people skills were a plus.)

The plan is to give a shot of botox to this wrinkled Edwardian, merge our two top units into one, and recreate the backyard space which right now includes a dilapidated metal garage, rotting wood staircase, antique washing machine, and garbage-can storage that looks like the dump itself. Dreams of a home for our cars (ahhhhh), a mod staircase, a spot of green and our very own roof garden are just that right now: dreams. But we’re refining the art of realizing them.