RON HENGGELER

March 7, 2025
short-lived windows on my world 

When you  arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

Ocean on the stairs

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.                  Jean Cocteau

balustrade of the front stairs at home

Sunrise from my window

February 21, 2025

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

Isamu Noguchi

San Francisco City Hall

California St. & Polk St.

a view from the third-floor round room at home

Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill

San Francisco

first-floor front room at home

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

a morning in Hayes Valley

San Francisco

Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill

San Francisco

Jars in the first-floor pyramid room

Full moon

January 12, 2025

sunrise from my window in the third-floor round room

Sandy in the kitchen

Van Ness Ave. & O'Farrell St.

Costco

11th St. & Bryant St.

San Francisco Chorus

Carmina burana (1936) by Carl Orff at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco

Oh friends, put aside these sounds! 
Let us be more civil to each other,
And speak more joyfully.

Beethoven

South Van Ness at Market St.

detail in the first-floor pyramid room

morning light in the first-floor front room

Rodin's The Thinker

Legion of Honor in San Francisco

round room on the third floor

at the Safeway entrance

Church St. & Market St.

A view from Gough St. & California St.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Sandy sleeping atop the printer

front room at home

portrait by Mark Anstendig

Where's Waldo

San Francisco Opera House

Mission St. & 10th St. in San Francisco

Powell Street at Sacramento St. on Nob Hill

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.      

Robert Redford

Curtain call of the Cool Britannia ballet

San Francisco Opera House

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.   

Isadora Duncan

San Francisco Opera House

Sandy in the kitchen

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Leonardo da Vinci

top of the stairs at home

Curtain call of the Manon ballet

San Francisco Opera House

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

San Francisco Japantown

Webster St. & Geary Blvd.

The view from Post St. & Van Ness Ave.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. 

William Blake

Transamerica Pyramid seen from Montgomery St. at Commercial St.

Church St. near Duboce St.

San Francisco

(L) Beach & Sandy (R)

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.       Anonymous

Gough St. & Market St.

San Francisco

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

Grace Cathedral

Color is the fruit of life.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Happy Lunar New Year

Davies Symphony Hall

San Francisco

Atmospheric River on the night of Cool Britannia

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour. 

William Blake

Salesforce Tower as seen from Post St. at Laguna St.

Curtain call of the Cool Britannia ballet

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Curtain call of the Manon ballet

San Francisco Opera House

Feb.13.2025

Beach at the top of the stairs

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

       Wesley Bates

Van Ness & O'Farrell

front room on the first floor at home

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. 

William Blake

Curtain call of the Manon ballet

San Francisco Opera House

Feb.13.2025

Ocean in the kitchen

The San Francisco City Hall viewed from my window

      Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you    ascribe it to be. 

Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell

Van Ness & California

Kearny St. & Clay St.

San Francisco Chinatown

Thunderous standing ovations for the premiere performance of After the Fall  and Carmina burana at Davies Hall in San Francisco.

The Unanswered Question (1906) by Charles Ives, After the Fall (2024) by John Adams, and Carmina burana (1936) by Carl Orff.

February 19, 2025

The air has an indefinable softness and sweetness—a tonic quality that braces the nerves to a joyous tension, making the very sense of existence a delight.     

Scribner's Monthly

Curtain call of the Raymonda ballet

San Francisco Opera House

March 1. 2025

Raymonda, a woman ahead of her time, embodies the resilience and compassion reminiscent of Florence Nightingale. Set against the backdrop of the 19th-century Crimean War, this adaptation redefines the role of women in both wartime and society. Tamara Rojo’s bold reimagining of Petipa’s timeless classic highlights its heroic and elegant qualities, set to Alexander Glazunov’s soaring score performed by the Grammy Award-winning SF Ballet Orchestra.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, 
And all you behold, though it appears without, 
It is within, in your imagination, 
Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. 

William Blake