1. The Un-California - Daniel Weintraub
2. This short story by Daniel Weintraub is about Sacramento. Sacramento, being a beautiful, growing city is considered Un-Californian because of the way of life here. People are considered to be almost equals, the rich living close to the poor, the fact that there are no hills to overlook the town, so the super rich can not be the elite and look over the city as if it is theirs, everyone is on the same plane. The weather is nice, and people are not upset or angry when it rains, they understand that in order for them to continue their way of agricultural life, that they need a fair amount of everyone, sun, rain, and clouds. Sacramento is a little bit of everything, but not like the rest of our beautiful California State.
3. My Favorite sentences are "It's not as if the city's streets are now crowded with Hummers. And those you do see tend to be spattered with ud, ust back from a trip to the mountains. Around these parts, people actually drive them there." because I think that this is so true, people buy these big trucks and SUV's and just travel around town. They are such a waste of gas and money, the only real use for them should be in the snow or high mountains.
4. This reading made me think about how places can change so quickly. Santa Rosa used to be a pretty small, not to busy, quiet town. Now Santa Rosa is becoming a commuter town, with thousands of residents, and houses and buildings going up everywhere, like Sacramento. Sacramento didn't use to be so big, but like everywhere else, its growing to be a monster. Appartments in the city are starting to be placed around, and the whole downtown area is starting to look almost like San Francisco. It is just crazy how things can change so dramatically.
5. I did not know that Sacramento had 2 rivers running through it, the Sacramento river and the American river. Driving through Sacramento, I had only ever seen one river, and knowing that its almost always hot there, I think that having these two rivers there is probably a big help to most people looking to cool off.
1. Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin - by Deanne Stillman
2. This short story is about the Mojave desert, and all the possibilities it can bring. The Mojave is a place of silitude, a place where you can go and think about whatever you want. The desert is an empty place where any of your dreams can come true, where you can talk to the wilderness, and the wilderness will talk to you. It brings you close to nature, and with that, you feel one with yourself and humanity.
3. My favorite sentence is "I know I am close to the Mojave when the L.A. radio stations fade from Grammy Award winners to Christian advice shows and I start receiving tansmissions of other bearded evangelicals, primarily Z.Z. Top" This is my favorite because I think that it is funny how peoples interests change throughout the state, people in the desert could not give a rats butt about the Grammy's, but they love their good ol' Z.Z. Top music.
4. This reading made me think about how I need to find myself my own personal place of solitude. Somewhere where there is now distractoins, no noise, nothing but good old nature and what it brings. Somewhere where i can think and act as I please, no one to conform to.
5. I have always heard of the Mojave desert, but I never knew where it was, but now i know that it is in California. California seems to have everything, the ocean, the forest, the desert, and many beautiful lakes, it has everything you could want.
1. How many angles - by David Kipen
2. This story is about Los Angeles, and the center of everything. The center of things are not usually what we think they should be, as in this story, David thought the center of Los Angeles should be a freeway, but in reality the center is not even a paved road. Things are not usually what we perceive them to be, we should all venture out and find things out for ourselves.
3. My favorite sentence was "the geometric center of anything is never what or where you think it is" This is my favorite because it seems so true, nothing is ever what it appears to be, you just have to go through with it, and find out the circumstances of your actions.
4. The reading made me think of life, and the fact that we do not know everything. There is always, and will always be the unknown, and that is what makes life interesting. Going out and discovering things for yourself, and finding what really makes you happy is what life is about.
5. I also thought the center of Los Angeles would be somewhere very populated, with freeways and building surrounding it, but in fact the center is this quiet, non residential area, a beautiful sanctuary.
1. Centered - by Veronique de Turenne
2. This short story is about the trip to the center of California. California, being the busy, populated, beautiful state would seem to have a center filled with cars and phones and freeways, but at the center of California, there is nothing. Just the vast wildlife, and rolling hills, and the green pastures. The wildlife is just afraid of you as you are afraid of it, and this is a place where I want to be, a place to watch the sun set with nothing around to bother you.
3. My favorite sentece is "In a state this big, where the holy trinity of Smogland, fogland, and logland divide us, what could the geographic center possibly look like?" This is so true because everywhere in caifornia is all poluted now, smog covering the hills and sky, I want to find a place like this where there is no smog, where there is no cell phones, nothing but lush beautiful scenery.
4. This reading made me think of how poluted and distant from the earth we are. We are not in touch with it, we are the destroyers of it. We need to start realizing this, and change our ways, we need to enjoy the outdoors and the rolling hills instead of wasting our life watching tv and seeing the same sights, everything is more beautiful in person, and we need to see them before they are destroyed by our stupidity.
5. Before reading this, I never knew where Highway 49 led, now i know that it leads through the Sierra foothills, leading to Downieville, the center of California. I am going to have to go there since it is so close!
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