Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
- William BlakeBehind the Locked Door
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The Attic – Where Artists And Browsers Can Meet
The elemental properties that made up the Sea Gull Restaurant were food, art, music, people, and place. The atmosphere ultimately created was one of home and family. The properties and atmosphere came together at a particular point in time. It was during the...
Angst
“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous...
The Sad Story of Three Misfits
Three men I knew but not as well as I thought—a father, a disgruntled employee, a son. Tragedy, families ruined, a bizarre plot to assassinate a President and detonate a dirty bomb in Washington D.C. by a disturbed young man who according to a TIME magazine reporter...
Coffee
Panorama photo of Martin Schmidt's coffee art by Krissy Jones Farmer Brothers locked up the restaurant market by loaning out equipment—stainless cabinets, brewing machines, pots, and other essential accessories. The policy helped cash-poor restaurateurs by...
May 11
This odd mathematical coincidence caught my eye today as I was trolling Twitter. Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 (see Maria Popova's article at Brain Pickings) Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 -- See below Maria Popova @brainpicker For Richard Feynman's...
How I Learned To Eat Escargot
Snail shells are one of many examples of the Golden Spiral in nature. One way to approximate the Golden Spiral is with a mathematical series called the Fibonacci series. The ratio between consecutive Fibonacci numbers approaches the golden ratio as the Fibonacci...
Henry
Part of the job of running a restaurant is ordering the food and supplies. The two biggest suppliers when I first started at the Sea Gull were Monarch and Sexton. Today both these companies are part of the giant food distributor US Foods, but they started as...
The Attic Gallery Art-In — Part III
Since I have a surfeit of pictures from The Attic Gallery Art-In, it seemed appropriate to put up one more post with pictures and no further comment. They show the astonishing talent contributed for free by the local artists of the Mendocino coast. The pictures are...
The Attic Gallery Art-In – Part II
In the first part of The Attic Gallery Art-In, I left you with a link to Complementarity and the Quantum of Life. Artists seem to have an intuitive sense of complementarity as indicated by the reference to Blake in that article. A great artist understands how to use...
The Attic Gallery Art-In – Part I
The Sea Gull burned to the ground forty years ago this year. It’s easy for me to remember the date because my friend and key employee, Lorna, was born on December 12. We took a few minutes to comment on the irony of that coincidence, but we didn’t dwell on it for...
Steps to Security
I recently read The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans by Neal Gabler. As someone who has worked for thirty years as a financial adviser, reading the article was both sobering and painful. It was sobering because it gets to the root of the angst in...
Kelley – Sculptor, Piper, Busker
Copied From Northglow, January/February 1984, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 12-22 Editor’s Note: When Michelle Robinson sent us this article about the many-faceted Kelley, she explained in a covering letter the reasons for the introduction and conclusion and the way they were...