Apologize for the long absence. My family and I just took a long overdue trip to San Diego to see family and friends. We currently reside in the Central Valley where I grew up, but when I was in the Navy I lived in San Diego for a few years. I actually wound up staying there for 10 years.
It’s weird because when we went back I thought I would feel something, but I didn’t. I lived there for 10 years. It’s where I lost my mom, discovered myself, met my partner, and had my son, but I didn’t feel anything. I think it’s because I had gone through so much there including a DUI. While San Diego is unbelievably gorgeous and has so much to do, it just wasn’t the place for me. I didn’t feel grounded there. Everything was just so stressful all the time, all the traffic, fighting to find parking, fighting to find housing, fighting to survive really.
My favorite thing to do back when I was single and young was to just hangout and get tipsy at the Nude Beach at Black’s Beach. It was so nice and freeing to just be in the water and lay on the beach and get an all over tan. Usually people would leave you alone, but every now and then you had to deal with some creeps, but usually faking a phone call would get them to leave.
I used to love going to the beach and being in the cleansing waters of the ocean, just aware of being in a body of water that spreads over so much of this earth and touches so many things. I was in the same waters as whales, sharks, fishes, corpses, poop, you name it, it’s probably in the ocean and we are all touching it at the same time.
Since going back for a visit, the water just isn’t the same. It’s not refreshing anymore. It feels gross on your skin and makes you itch, it’s not as clear. We really need to do something about it. I can’t believe people are just okay with how much pollution goes into our water systems, and earth in general. It’s crazy. I think we can still make change, but it’s hard to have hope now when every time you open the news–at least in America–there is some new travesty or conspiracy being peddled. I’m so over it. I miss when we used to come together as human beings to improve things together, not just to kill each other. There has to be more to life than just a mass of humans fighting over resources on a floating rock hurtling through the galaxy and universe. Maybe this is why no extraterrestrial entity wants to deal with us. We just act ghetto as a species. LOL
Henry's Emporium of Wonders 