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Week #48

29 Sunday Apr 2012

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art, friends, wine

j: Some of my favorite people in the world came over Saturday, bearing VIP wine tasting passes to the Steven Kent Winery in Livermore. We were hoping that VIP meant we’d walk on a red carpet, swim with some dolphins, and eat delicious vegetarian delicacies stabbed through with toothpicks, but none of that was included. The wine was good though, and Sharyn, our tasting guru, was so much fun we invited her to go on vacation with us, either to Italy or into outer space (we could not quite reach a consensus).

This painting was hung on the tasting room wall and it stole my heart and my imagination. I love its vibrant color, texture, sensuality, life. I couldn’t afford its $1850 price tag, but I did want to share it with you.

jb: This weekend, after an 8 year hiatus, I returned to my favorite sport ever – scuba diving. All week while preparing for the trip I was anxious and excited and uh, anxious — would I still be able to do it? Would my ears clear? (That’s always been an unpredictable and intermittent problem for me and caused me to miss out on a lot of dives.) But I could! And they did! And even though the dive conditions were just so-so by most standards, for me watching the kelp sway in the ocean waves, seeing the sun rays streaming through the kelp forest, swimming along with kelp fish, finding starfish clinging to their hiding places, breathing underwater and watching my bubbles float to the surface — it was perfect. And the next day, I took my son tide-pooling (another favorite activity of mine) and I got to share the ocean’s treasures with him. All-in-all, a wonderful weekend at the ocean.

I didn’t have my underwater camera (this time!) so I’m sharing a picture from our tide-pooling adventure instead.

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Week #18

02 Sunday Oct 2011

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art, girl power

j: Walking Lexi through a park we don’t usually visit, I came across this tower of tiled artwork by elementary school kids. I loved all the drawings, but this was my favorite. It was done by a third grader, which just amazes me (I wish I’d have gotten her name in this shot, but I was using my phone, wrestling Lexi, and in the process of getting very sick – the next two days were about to be horrible). For me, this picture is all about girl power – strength, agility, confidence, the climb we all face, literally and spiritually to realize our full potential. The fact that it was drawn by an 8-year-old makes me smile. If I’d been drawing pictures like this in third grade, I wonder who I’d be right now…

Lost and found

jb: Today was not the fun day we planned. That day was lost to us when we had to detour due to road closures for a BIG EVENT. And despite the efforts of Alfred-the-wonder-GPS, we couldn’t get to where we wanted to go, only drive in circles, ever more frustrated until it was too late to get where we wanted to be. We were a car full of sadness and despair.

Then we made our own detour to the farmers market, drank coffee/hot chocolate, ate a sweet treat, and found a used bookstore to check out “just for a minute” but stayed two-and-a-half hours reading, browsing, getting lost in the magic of books and the joy of completely unscheduled time — together.

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