johnny heim elementary jack and encouraged him to read and to learn. as i understand it, johnny about him this money to go to school. we come down here for his birthday on january 12. the owner typically has cut cakes. we will set out and write. we have meetings in the area where we have workshops. the writing process is a creative process and while it's internal, it draws on so much insight but also what's going on in their world. i walk in there and i just feel good. i feel creative. i feel connected to something that's been around a long time and will go forward. i think that is part of the energy of oakland. right now we have a renaissance in the literary scene. there is the book festival and the bay area book festival and it's been around a couple years. these are named after and transferred containers. it's all about writing. whether it's on a blog on the computer, on the printed page. the energy of the people. there is a love of writing, a love of wanting to be together obviously part of it because with the whole bay area growing, it is hard to g