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California*

92715-472189-thumbnail.jpgIt has been a long time since I've been back to California. The 49th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival is what brings me here. I flew into Los Angeles on Wednesday, and drove up to Monterey on Thursday. The drive was great. Living on the East Coast for the past 15 years, it was nice to re-view how beautiful California really is, especially once you emerge from the metropoli of Southern Cal.92715-472190-thumbnail.jpg Before going to the festival on Friday night, my cousins and I spent the day driving around Pebble Beach and the Del Monte Forest and Point Lobos State Reserve on the Monterey Peninsula. "Breathtaking" is, in my view, an inacurate word to desrcibe such beauty. For it is more like breathing anew: each time I am in such a place, I sense each breath as an infusion of Spirit, a reminder not only of beauty in the world, but of the beauty of my own being.92715-472191-thumbnail.jpg 92715-472192-thumbnail.jpg
To combine such visual beauty with the aural tapestries of jazz for the weekend, is indeed, enjoying the sweetness in life.
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(*listening to Alice Coltrane's "Om Supreme" from Eternity)

Posted on Saturday, September 16, 2006 at 03:25PM by Registered CommenterBryan in , , | Comments2 Comments

Reader Comments (2)

hey, bryan.

sounds you like had an awesome time up in the bay area. can't wait to see ya when you're back in so cal. peace! =)

hiro
September 18, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterHiro
Hey, so where is the entry about seeing his great high school friends? Hah! Good to see you again, Bryan.

Ken
October 2, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterKen

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