“In 2008 we weren’t drinking as much so we wanted a non alcoholic drink we could enjoy when we were out. We started playing around with home brew kombucha and making batches of it, many batches turned in renting a 500 sq ft space to craft it. Then in 2010, we got so into it we started bottling and distributing it. Read More

“I like your style.”“Preciate it bruh.”“What are you into homey?”“I’m a poet.”“Can you recite a poem right quick?”“Yep – Please wake me when I am free, to a new world and society , while I stand tall With my left fist high I died thousands of times before you’ll ever realize. While my teardrops avalanche to the… Read More

“What do you like to do here?” “I like to watch movies and nothing else. I have a bit of a movie addiction. I want to be a movie critic but I’m moving back to Missouri soon.” “How come?” “This little one in my belly right here. I’m going back home to raise him with my tribe.”… Read More

“What’s your favorite thing about San Francisco?”“The vibe. I moved up here from San Diego because there was nothing for me there. There’s an energy to this city, especially Haight st. that I’ve never found anywhere else. Here people are excited to be alive.”… Read More

“We’re visiting from Somalia!”… Read More

“This is my new cuddle buddy, he’s perfect because he doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night horny as shit.”… Read More

“I just got this sweater. I’m not sure I like it…does it make me look fat?”… Read More

Right – “I was an immigration judge and he was an interpreter in the immigration court.”“So if someone comes here ‘illegally’ how do you decide if they get to stay?”Right – “If they say they’re afraid to go back we listen to their explanation about what makes them afraid. The law doesn’t cover everything that happens in other countries. Read More

“He kept staring at me and was making me uncomfortable so I went up to say hi to him to make him uncomfortable, but he was actually really cute so I got nervous and ran away!”“I got her number that night, we went out on our first date a week later to Monk’s Kettle. Now we have our… Read More

This woman came up holding several copies of the homeless paper Street Sheet. When she got to the bench I was sitting at she said “Hi, my name is Cynthia.”“Dijon.”“How are you?”“Good.”“This paper is published to inform people about homelessness, and what it does is give me a personal choice. Instead of sitting on the sidewalk with some old… Read More

“You look awesome.”“I know.”… Read More

“My name’s Grace. I live in the senior center up on Fillmore. I’m 72 years old. I’ve lived here since 1972 and I stayed until 1976 when I moved to Richmond because I didn’t want to raise my kids in the projects, but that was before there were all the drugs and foolishness going on out there. Me…I just liked to work, go… Read More

“How you doin today?”“I’m hurtin, my ankle is broke and it hurts so I can’t move real good.”“What can I do to help?”“I just gave some money to a guy to pick up my pain medicine from the store. I hope he comes back. I don’t think he’s coming back.”“I think he’ll come back.”“Ohh, it hurts…”“I can… Read More

“I’m from Senegal, it’s the opposite of here. There everybody respects everybody else. And we believe in community there. There are no homeless people. You’re only homeless if you want to be. Otherwise we take care of each other. If you come over to my house, you can eat whatever, stay as long as you like, it’s no problem. If you see a… Read More

“I just moved here from Maui to live the California dream we’ve all heard of.”… Read More

“You have beautiful eyes. Would you mind if I take your picture?” “Well, let’s talk for a minute. I don’t know you.” “My name’s Dijon.” “Vicki, where are you from?” “Atlanta.” “Ohhhh, Georgia huh. I’ve been here a long time but I’m from South Africa. My dad is from South Africa, my mom is from the west. She… Read More

“Say hello to my little friend.” ~ Tony Montana… Read More

“My brother was all good until my mother died. She had been sick a long time and had prepared us so much, when I was 9 she told us she had 2 years but she didn’t die till I was 13 so I was ready…I was fine but everybody else, not so much. As soon as my brother got to the house and… Read More

“I’m into brains, and how they work. I used to study neuroscience. I just really want to know what makes people tick.”… Read More

“What’s your favorite thing about him?”“It’s all of him together, it’s just his whole essence.”… Read More

“In the sweat lodges I run we do rituals to cleanse and emerge as a group. We recognize each other as spiritual beings having these temporary human experiences. We delete some of the programs that we’ve downloaded that are now obsolete. It’s like having old software on your hard drive that’s slowing your computer down. Those extreme temperatures force your body to make… Read More

“I moved here from Nicaragua when I was 14 and have been here my whole life.” “Has the neighborhood changed much since you’ve been here?” “Oh yeah, in 1972 the milkman would bring milk in glass bottles to your doorstep and leave them. And no one would touch them. Now…forget about it. People will kill you here on the street for… Read More

“I love bellydancing, the movement, sharing the culture with the people I dance for.”… Read More

“I make trippy sunglass called PRIZMEYEZ. They make all the lights you look at turn into prisms. I wanna turn the world into a psychedelic rainbow.”… Read More