Made of Sand

gail williams

Location: san francisco, California, usa
Birthday: January 01

Title: Director of Communities
Company: Salon

Bio: Gail works at Salon. She's a full-time online community junky with a strong affection for Salon's gathering places, Open Salon, the main Salon article Comments, and her first love, The WELL. So mostly her attention goes to conversation. Gail also plays with photography, video, craft brewing, satire, politics and hiking.

MY RECENT POSTS

Cheery, if not natural
December 21, 2011 10:29AM
Occupy Art!
November 22, 2011 09:55AM
Community event with Glenn Greenwald
November 04, 2011 10:36PM
Here comes our winter monsoon season
October 03, 2011 10:14PM
What does Open Salon want?
September 27, 2011 02:36AM

MY RECENT COMMENTS

“Very strange! I've been looking through the databases. Is it possible that the…”
February 06, 2012 07:30PM
“Very interesting indeed! Thank you.”
October 11, 2011 08:31PM
“I just "deleted" 175 spam blogs (they are restorable, I am told, if a r…”
October 08, 2011 03:29PM
“Painfully funny. I thought I'd delete a few spam posts this morning. Right now…”
October 08, 2011 01:13PM
“Thanks. I'm still shifting some other duties around... actually this is a vacat…”
September 30, 2011 01:38PM

Gail williams's Links

community thinking: The WELL online community
good old san francisco: SF Chinese New Year's Treasure Hunt, urban adventure!; Local craft beer places; Some of my SF photos

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 8:20PM

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Not every sand castle gets until the tide turns! Kids go "climbing" on the scultures after the annual sand castle competition at Drakes Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore.

Why Drake's? The white cliffs in the background are thought to be what the English explorer spotted on the California coast in 1579, where he named the land named New Albion. "Albion" is a classical name for England, described as the white lands for the ("alba") cliffs of Dover. These cliffs are off-white, but the man was homesick, so slack must be granted for his color descriptors.