Delores Fisher: Photo Flashbacks of a Blogger June 2018

                             Delores Fisher during semester office hours

A global hello and warm hug to people with disabilities!

It's almost summer 2018 here in San Diego California. From time to time, I do a brief summary of the previous year and what I plan for the coming year. This summer, I decided to do a photo flashback, a review of images--many of which I chose not to include in previous posts over the years.

So, summer blogging hours are now open, welcome to a small part of my world!

Hey Notesong/ Carpenoctum2 readers, I still like to "take strolls" as much as possible, although I am not able to walk as fast or as far. San Diego harbor, Balboa Park, East Village San Diego continue to provide spaces of comfort and relative(though tourist filled)peace.

From time to time, I post about disability and coping in a world that is at times...surprisingly fascinating. Many of you have read about my struggles with a physical disability that at this point is relentlessly present and still incurable.My most recent change is from using one cane/crutch to using canes/crutches. My physical therapist is a no nonsense woman. My summer was painful, full of assigned exercises and self monitoring.

After the first two weeks, anger and frustration almost caused me to quit. But, a gradual improvement in muscle strength, a reduction in painful spasms, and an noticeable increase in physical stamina kept me praying and trying. It has not been easy.

 As I am now known to say, "This works. I'm still walking."  I just have to be more aware of where and how I'm walking.
 

    Bobby Hearns and Delores Fisher (I was a guest pianist 2017)

             Delores Fisher at Comic Fest 2018 (with two cane/crutches)


Events and people still hold focus. Most people are willing to share a photo op and usually during various events, I take photos often Here are a few to review summer 2017 until now).

           Host of 2nd Tuesday poetry readings poet Jim Moreno

 Internationals Poet Olga Garcia and Megan Webster and me at February 2018
 2nd Tuesday feature three of the 4nth poets back together again for a special
 night to join me onstage 

                           Lady Shadow (Ms Senior San Diego 2018)

Dr. Charles Tombs Africana Studies Depart.Chair SDSU and Community Actors Theater Director Jennie Hamilton(after her guest lecture for students in my Afras 140 class)


SDSU Phi Kappa Phi 2018

                                        Phi Kappa Phi President  Dr Norah P. Shultz, Ph.D.

             Executive Board Members onstage chairs pre-ceremony

    At Phi Kappa Phi Induction 2018 ( with student inductee)


 Comic Fest 2018 Talking to the artists . . . . .

The graphic artists from Accidental Alien (at Comic Fest 2018)

                                        Keithan Jones Founder of Kid Comics

I stroll down Little Italy's Farmer's Market to enjoy the ambience and the fresh produce.

     Little Italy Busker 2018 with his hand crafted street organ.

                                                       Vocalist Cedrice Webber

Balboa Park Strolling..................

                                                      Dancers at the Harmony Fest

Women's March.............

                                        San Diego Women's March 2018

                             San Diego Women's March 2018


 Los Angeles . . . . . . .

                                                       LA Train Station

                                                            LA Train Station

Sea Port Village San Diego  2018 . . . . . ..

Seaport Village (Anthony's Fish House---demolition 2018)

                                            Ravi "The Rock Whisperer"

 The Center for World Music is presenting a wonderfully inspiring concert series from Africa, the Middle East, and from(Click onto the website for more information)https://centerforworldmusic.org/event/songs-stories-series/

For the first concert with musicians from Africa, I Interviewed Matrida Umoja Band  and Revelation Gospel Band on stage as a "concert intermission."

This is the Matrida Umoja Gospel Band

                                                        Matrida Umoja Gospel Band

A surprise musical collaboration finale

       Matrida Umoja Band and Revelation Gospel Band

And of course I have been practicing for concerts and poetry readings. Shout out to Center For World Music outreach program headed by Stacey Barnett. I enjoyed sharing Afro Classical piano music with seniors last week. A few of the composers whose piano works I played: Afro-Canadian composer R. Nathaniel Dett,  Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African American composers Scott Joplin, and Harry T. Burleigh.

  Stacey, me and a resident after the concert

I took a few days off to rest before going back into preparations for several other appearances.

Oh yea . . .shout out to San Diego International Fringe Festival https://www.sandiego.org/explore/events/festivals-and-street-fairs/san-diego-fringe-festival.aspx
Get your tickets now or at the door, if available. Some shows sell out early. Stroll by the bay, enjoy a meal in the Gaslamp Quarter or on the expanding restaurant scene on Market Street. Don't forget to stop at the Donut  Bar on B street in the AM. Their donuts are works of art that have a creamy cake softness that melts in your mouth. The Donut Bar opens at 7:00AM and usually sell out before 1:00PM; standing in line for at least fifteen minutes is becoming an early morning tradition for regular customers.

 

 Delores Fisher by the Embarcadero 2018

Oh yea, stop by the BIG Kitchen in Golden Hills while you're at the Fringe Festival. It's a San Diego institution! Fringe Festival even has a musical about Judy and the Big Kitchen:

You may get a glimpse of Judy the Beauty humming, dancing around the kitchen, or just hanging out with regulars, swapping stories about the sixties and seventies, and SHE DOES have recollections about a lot of folks back in the day . . .even me   http://carpenoctum2.blogspot.com/2016/09/judy-beautythe-big-kitchen-saturday-am.html

Summer is only a few days away!

                                        

Delores Fisher