proud to be here and thankfully to the time to be here and it is an honor for me. it is the second time to appoint a poet laureate to our city, and this is going back to the previous administration, when lawrence ferlinghetti took the baton. he has now passed it on, officially, from jack kirsch men to diane as our fifth poet laureate. you would have thought that it must have gone on longer. but i am proud of it. as was jack, and i do not see him here, of his stewardship. jack and i did not always agree on every issue, and i went into this with some risk that i would be scorned even after appointing him. i would never have appointed him if i thought it would change his tenor. quite the contrary. i have admired him even more because he did an outstanding job as a steward of that position and really democratized the position even more reaching out into the neighborhood and also reaching out around the world in international issues, internationalizing our status. that is really i
lower the cost and makes solar affordable. for further information visit our website or come visit us in person. all the classes at the pacific energy center are free of charge. thanks for showing us an actual system being installed and thank you for being with us. hope to see you soon. did mor. i am delighted to welcome you to the richmond library. it is a wonderful space. thank you. [applause] i m very honored and feel very privileged to have the library be at the center of the selection for san francisco s poet laureate. this is my second experience under mayor nredom, newsom. i want to thank you for a couple of reasons. first and foremost to bring the announcement to the richmond. it is an opportunity to preview this beautiful library opening tomorrow, a grand reopening of the richmond library. the first in the city, from 1914 cricket from 1914. this is no. 10. we are on a roll. secondarily, it is a port important because the poet laureate has a tradition people,
using the most innovative technology available. these devices allow people to remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. it is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely. did. i am delighted to welcome you to the richmond library. it is a wonderful space. thank you. [applause] i m very honored and feel very privileged to have the library be at the center of the selection for san francisco s poet laureate. this is my second experience under mayor nredom, newsom. i want to thank you for a couple of reasons. first and foremost to bring the announcement to the richmond. it is an opportunity to preview this beautiful library opening tomorrow, a grand reopening of the richmond library. the first in the city, from 1914 cricket from 1914. this is no. 10. we are on a roll. secondarily, it is a port important because the poet laureate has a tradition people, and this library what better place to celebrate the announcement a
stars in the sky without imagination there is no memory without imagination there is no sensation without imagination there is no will, desire history is a living weapon in your hand and you have imagined it. it is thus that you find out for yourself, history is the dream of what can be, it is the relation between things in a continuum of imagination. what you find out for yourself is what you select out of the infinte sea of possibility no one can inhabit your world, yet it is not lonely. the ground of imagination is fearlessness. discourse is videotape of a movie of a shadow play, but the puppets are in yr hand, your counters in a multidimensional chess which is divination and strategy. the war that matters is war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it. the ultimate famine is the starvation of the imagination. it is death to be sure, but the undead seek to inhabit someone else s world the ultimate claustrophobia is the syllogism. the ultimate claustrophob
using the most innovative technology available. these devices allow people to remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. it is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely. did. i am delighted to welcome you to the richmond library. it is a wonderful space. thank you. [applause] i m very honored and feel very privileged to have the library be at the center of the selection for san francisco s poet laureate. this is my second experience under mayor nredom, newsom. i want to thank you for a couple of reasons. first and foremost to bring the announcement to the richmond. it is an opportunity to preview this beautiful library opening tomorrow, a grand reopening of the richmond library. the first in the city, from 1914 cricket from 1914. this is no. 10. we are on a roll. secondarily, it is a port important because the poet laureate has a tradition people, and this library what better place to celebrate the announcement a