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i am in florida with a bad internet connection, a whole bunch of work to do, and two angry parents. my last few days in san francisco fizzled slowly out in haze of alcohol, flu symptoms, and premature nostalgia for such a lovely town. most of the month of july was marked by a slowly building upper respiratory infection for me. it was also one of
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You make an excellent point about Lakeland. It's too bad, though, that many of the things that one could find aesthetically pleasing about Lakeland are all-too-quickly vanishing as Lakeland becomes just another dot in the amophous Orlampa urban agglomeration. Mark my words: in a few years, it will all be warehouses and ticky-tacky tract houses.
There are parts of Lakeland that are stunningly beautiful. This is not because the buildings are necessarily because of the quality of the individual components of the urban fabric, but because they all work together so well in unison. Oak trees are everywhere to provide a wonderful canopy of shade, and Lakelanders really are fine gardeners. From a simple row of impatients, a stretch of bushy ferns, or even the carefully-tended rose gardens that the Victoriana-obsessed Lakeland elite find so appealing work quite well among the rows of wooden, cracker-box homes.
I think one thing at least one thing we share is our love-hate relationship with our beloved Lakeland. While it can be and is quite confining in numerous senses, there are still many things to enjoy about the people there and the comliness of the place. I love the feel of some neighborhoods: upholstered furniture that had seen its first days indoors molding on the unscreened front portch of some wooden home in "Dixieland"; I hate dealing with the de facto racist regime (county commissioners are all elected "at-large" though they only represent circumscribed districts - ensuring that minorities never have a representative in county government) and perilous push towards development at ANY cost that the elites have struck upon.
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