13: Only in California
1. The first “Only in California” moment I had here in San Diego was while having afternoon tea on my hotel suite deck and noticing a group of about 25 paddle surfers doing yoga on their surfboards in Mission Bay.
2. Later, I regretted not taking a picture of the guy I saw sitting at an outside café feeding wild sparrows. He was surrounded by about twenty birds with several of them perched on his fingers.
3. HERE is a video clip of the presentation my husband (founder of Inward Bound Mindfulness Education) gave at the Healing the Hearts and Minds of Youth conference, which brought us to San Diego in the first place.
4. At the first hotel we stayed at, I was awakened one night by the sound of a lone late-night skateboarder skating across sections of sidewalk below our room. I thought it was the clogging of a horse’s hoofs on the boardwalk.
5. Getting ready to board the plane to fly across the country, I remember thinking to myself: There are so many ways to die. I’m surprised more of us aren’t dead already.
6. The last time I was overtaken by emotion: This morning while eating breakfast at sidewalk café when I saw an older guy in a Red Sox cap who walked like my father and was reminded of how much I miss him. He died in 2005.
7. “She’s fallen in love with humanity but doesn’t like anyone in particular.” ~ line heard while listening to a CD by poet David Whyte.
8. Recently googled from the retro-motel on the beach where we also stayed : How to make tea in the microwave.
9. Thank God for Starbucks.
10. A lot of people run here, but when Joe and I tried it I think we looked like we had just come from a robbery because we didn’t have running shoes and spanks on, or M3P player wires in our ears.
11. What’s the difference between a ledge and an edge?
12. Soon we’ll be heading to LA and driving down Santa Monica Boulevard which is why THIS song is in my head.
13. Watch a crazy swarm of sandpiper birds HERE.
February 9th, 2012 3:58 am
I can’t even imagine trying to do yoga on a surfboard. I have enough trouble keeping balance on solid ground. Hope you’re enjoying the trip to California!
February 9th, 2012 5:57 am
Great picture of the Surf Boarders doing Yoga….AMAZING, in fact….
#13 took me to a Video of mine from a “Ladies Who Lunch”…..Weird….! No Sandpipers…..
So, you will be on Santa Monica Blvd before you know it…..!
February 9th, 2012 7:29 am
#7 happens at the strangest times
February 9th, 2012 8:22 am
Wow. Yoga on a surf board. I had no idea.
Hope you enjoy your trip. It sounds like a blast.
February 9th, 2012 11:01 am
I like this TT more because you are away and I haven’t heard from you. I miss Dad too! There a gentleman in my church that looks just like him. I watch with such emotion and thoughts of our Dad!! Joe is doing a wonderful job!
February 9th, 2012 11:54 am
I fixed the sandpiper link. I had never seen so many of them!
She, if you email me we can talk. I don’t have addresses on my travel netbook but can reply to emails. xo
February 9th, 2012 12:07 pm
It sounds like you are having a great holiday. I’ll check out the sandpipers. Thanks.
http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2012/02/celebration-of-love-and-loversthirteen.html
February 9th, 2012 1:18 pm
#5 – ain’t that the truth!!!
February 9th, 2012 3:25 pm
The students pictured on my post are my former students who went together for 8 years – very good for one another a cousin caught the proposal on camera sandy
February 16th, 2012 2:13 pm
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