March 13, 2006
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The Daily News
thoughts of home...
Snow on Rio Del Mar beach, near Aptos! Can this guy be
lofting a snowball over to Capitola, less than a mile away?
1 I just flew in from Malaysia, and boy!
2 So I land safely at home, and I find SNOW in Capitola! How'd THAT happen?
3 Okay, so it's Rio Del Mar beach, but come on! Aptos is a stone's throw from Capitola! Snow actually touched down on the BEACH! I didn't get there, but I thought I'd share that picture from the Merc.
4 I was in Malaysia Sunday, remember? Lent? Sunday? Anyway, on SATURDAY, the snow hit the BEACHES of Monterey Bay, and Santa Cruz, Capitola, Rio Del Mar. Amazing, this place we call home.
5 It also came way down, to around 600 feet, and all of Grant Park was dusted in miracle white powder:
Snow in good ol' Grant Park, Saturday.
3 Home. Grant Park. I took a cruise up there yesterday, and it was so frozen that the cows were delivering Frostees on cheap cones.
4 Some lady on television just started singing Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Greenday. Just now. How random. It just now drifted through my composing here, and it's now making sense of everything.
5 How fun. She butchered it, but still...well, here. It's like a soft dusting of snow, but a beautiful tune...think of home for a minute. Think of the warmth, the memories, the photographs, families, and laughing with friends...for what it's worth, it was worth all the while...
...another turning point, a fork stuck in the road...
6 Just thinking of Grant Park, Capitola, snow, and all. I actually wasn't in Malaysia yesterday. I was actually in the good ol' Theatre, painting, doing lights, and we took a break and went up to the hills, hoping to catch some of the snow.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go...
7 They closed the road right after Grant Park, so no such luck, but it was a brisk ride, and a wonderful break from doing the sets. We took the familiar ride up into the hills, always a magical, mystical ride, especially in the TOOOOONDRA...once up there, we looked over our great city, and at the amazing weather formations occurring above it and below us. Just, always amazing, always amazing...
8 By and by, and almost mysteriously, the sky gathered into this strange form in the middle of San Jose, almost a funnel, but of wet, and of rain. Misty, wet, cold, and mysterious, all seemingly at the same time...
8 The sky became threatening, dark, cold, almost scary were it not for it's dreariness:
9 And then, this beautiful, golden ray of sunlight shot right through all of the cold, the darkness, the fear, and the dreariness, to remind us all of how lucky we are to be able to call this sometimes miraculous place home...
10 It's hard not to see something like that as a light for all of us.
So make the best of this test and don't ask why; it's not a question but a lesson learned in time...
11 Indeed.
12 May warm thoughts of home be with you this cold day.
13 It's something unpredicatable.
14 But in the end it's right.
15 Peace. Love life. Love home. Love yourselves.
~h~
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