Vacant lots and bulldozers don’t always get me down.

Forty years ago, El Paseo de Saratoga Shopping Center was a vibrant cosmopolitan epicenter of culture where monks and musicians gathered. It lives only in memory.

I am not suffering over this. If one becomes attached to a shopping mall, suffering will emerge because all shopping malls, especially in San Jose, are transitory. They all age. They all change. If the columnist fails to understand this, then he remains caught in a trap, grasping at impermanent phenomena.

Why am I telling you these things? Because right now, the Quito Road corner of El Paseo—today’s El Paseo—is gone. Flattened. Demolished. Don’t worry, it’s just one corner, so you can still hit up Noah’s Bagels and Panda Express.

On a recent visit, I couldn’t watch the bull

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