The streets of Hayward, Oakland and San Francisco and the cars of the BART trains are places of happy chaos and spontaneous solidarity, but also contested spaces where violence often seems close at hand.
Because gratitude is not about making a long list of things that actually don't speak to our soul, coming from a place of pretend happy chasing more happy.
Nodutdol's Web site, which is in English at www.nodutdol.com, includes a journal and photographs by Yul San Liem, 24, who presents North Korea as a harmonious place, full of happy people free of Western advertising.
To that end, he used both new and existing regulations to monitor nightclubs, including taking the cabaret law a bit of archaic legislation that decreed there couldn't be more than three people dancing in a boite without a cabaret license out of mothballs and using it to punish places full of happy feet.
At both the hotel and the campaign headquarters across town, depression took the place of the happier, more hopeful emotions that held sway six hours earlier, before the roller coaster of election night 2000 began screaming down the rails.
In place of this happy-go-lucky Presidential tyro, there was a sombre-faced fellow who, as he thanked his family and his God for giving him the strength to get up and go every day, appeared to be all of his fifty-three years.
If everything works out here, Dr. Marlin said, he has dreams of similar projects in other places, of other happy marriages between localities separated by so much distance.
There is no place of arrival, no happy landing, even in a private jumbo jet.
