Kenny Landes | Graphic Design | Web Development | San Francisco

I’m excited to announce that I have started training through the National AIDS Marathon Training Program to run in the San Francisco Marathon on August 3, 2008.

It’s an issue close to my heart. I have lost many friends to the disease over the course of the pandemic. I am running in their memory and to make a contribution to my community, which has suffered tremendous losses.

Please join me with your support for this worthy cause by clicking the yellow button below to go to my fundraising page. Donations will benefit the San Francisco AIDS Foundation which serves people living with HIV and AIDS in San Francisco, and it’s global affiliate, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, which serves people around the world.

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I’ve discovered that when I run, my mind and body tune into each other and everything in my life becomes clear. Recently, I’ve been doing long runs a few weekends each month. I run a little over 13 miles, from the Ferry Building in San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge and back. It is certainly one of the most beautiful runs in the world.

The proximity of natural and man-made wonders, the contrasts between the City and Presidio National Park, all the wonderful scents of seafood and sourdough going through Fisherman’s Wharf and the salty taste of sweat and sea air beading up on my face as I run all combine with an intense feeling of connection with everything around me leading to an overwhelming sense of serenity.

My life is truly blessed.

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Just a quick note to say that there was a significant earthquake here about 20 minutes ago. I was lying in bed watching Discovery Channel, thinking about last weeks’ fires and that sometimes we get earthquakes when we have hot weather out here in California—we call it shake-n-bake—when suddenly everything started shaking.

At 5.6 on the Richter scale, it counts as a big earthquake, but since the Bay Area has been pretty widely strengthened since the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, I doubt there will be any serious damage reported.

Anyway, for what it’s worth, I’m fine. I will now return to my Discovery Channel program, already in progress.

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Fall is in the air, and it’s rained extensively here over the past few weeks. San Francisco is one of those places where it is cold when everywhere else is hot, warm when everywhere is cold, and windy, always windy! Basically, there are only two seasons here: mild and wet, then cool and dry. When it rains, it really pours. When it is dry, it is dry for months at a time. But I love it all the time!

When I first moved here from San Diego on January 21, 1993—the day after President Bill Clinton was inaugurated—I had no idea how in love I would fall with this place.  It really is a magical oasis, the kind that dreams are made of, but I just call it home.

It’s been wild ride, to say the least. I even left town for a few years to go back to school at SDSU. After graduation, I took a job in Las Vegas, but San Francisco was always the place where I would return.

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