The object that surround us here in this Beautiful Museum are lovingly and superbly conserved as if they were all made yesterday or teleported a regular from every age of the past into our present. Even in the greatest rural cemeteries like this one, the Allegheny Cemetery in pittsburgh, the passage and pressure of time are everywhere visible. The residues of past eras coat the graves and factory smoke and coal dust. The stone and metal erode. Slabs tilt and sometimes fall into the ground. By the way, this is not what every grade in the elegant what every grave in the Allegheny Cemetery looks like. Images dissolve before our eyes and the names of the dead, the whole reason for this above ground apparatus, even these often disappear. As Oliver Wendell holmes wrote about his local graveyard in cambridge, massachusetts it slowly disappears. The mosses creek, the gravestones the mosses creep, the gravestones lean. The decaying gravestones have age value. Triggering metaphysical ruminations
90 minute talk. Professor savage everyone in this room has probably had the experience of wandering through an older u. S. City and stumbling into the beguiling section of a rural cemetery. With its vast collection of gravestones and tombs and miniature temples interspersed among rolling hills, woods, and vales. Highly manipulated landscape is an Outdoor Museum in more ways than one. It was a striking difference. The objects that surround us here in this Beautiful Museum are lovingly and superbly conserved as if they were all made yesterday or teleported a miraculously from every age of the past into our present. But even in the greatest rural cemeteries like this one, the Allegheny Cemetery in pittsburgh, the passage and pressure of time are everywhere visible. The residues of past eras coat the graves and factory smoke and in factory smoke and coal dust. The stone and metal erode. Slabs tilt and sometimes fall into the ground. And, by the way, this is not what every grave in the Alle
Everyone invage this room has probably had the experience of wandering through an older u. S. City and stumbling into the beguiling section of a rural cemetery. With its vast collection of gravestones and tombs and miniature temples interspersed among rolling hills, woods, and dales. Dales. It is an Outdoor Museum in more ways than one. It was a striking difference. The object that surround us here in this Beautiful Museum are lovingly and superbly conserved as if they were all made yesterday or teleported a regular from every age of the past into our present. Even in the greatest rural cemeteries like this one, the Allegheny Cemetery in pittsburgh, the passage and pressure of time are everywhere visible. Coatesidues of past eras the graves and factory smoke and coal dust. The stone and metal erode. Sometimes fall into the ground. By the way, this is not what every grade in the elegant what every grave in the Allegheny Cemetery looks like. Images dissolve before our eyes and the names
Of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, members of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes i have no speaker cards does any of the members of the public wish to speak on a nonagenda items general comment is closed that places us under Department Matters directors announcements. Good afternoon, commissioners and happy new year to all of you just one announcement it is note in the written directors report on the housing Bonus Program i think you had a presentation were moving forward with not only the program but a series of Public Meetings and were trying to prepare public hearings in the supervisorial districts in district 2, 7, 3 and one in that order and looking to do one in all district i want to just the you with your tentatively schedule at the Planning Commission to approve or for them to act on the program at the end of january on the 27 yeah 27 and we do anticipate further changes as he go forward a substantial program weve spent a lot
Paying us were missing an opportunity to shine. Spotlights on the city of San Francisco and we talk about worldclass events i believe the San Francisco Ethics Commission is going to shine during this week and i think it is an opportunity to embrace and move forward im say it again, i truly building as someone born and raised in the city of San Francisco were a sports town we love our sports franchises whether the 49ers or the goins were talking about a soccer team or anything coming to the city of San Francisco our residents not burr we love our sports team it is a source of prides for generation in the city of San Francisco and will be gordons and for those who dont believe it from my prospective are from a different planet i want to thank everyone for what we did and all the members of our city departments that are working hard to put on this events i actually agree with some of the comments reason a around a coordinator but i want to take a moment to thank and put my full confidence