A yoga student bursts into class: "I was rushing to restorative yoga. The irony!"
An account of Easter morning: "Our crystal pile by the garage got ransacked during an Easter egg hunt. The children all thought the Easter bunny had left crystals. Seemed very ordinary to all of them."
At the post office I heard a customer request "those magic stamps." I was sending a letter regarding taxes so was surprised when the worker, eyeing the IRS address, suggested: "Let's use a stamp with the word 'love' on it."
I was looking at my car on Bodega Avenue. Cars were zipping by and I wondered if it was okay where I'd parked. A guy passing by saw me scoping it out and remarked, "Your car is probably okay. But Sebastopol is a hippie oasis so you do have to be careful of drivers around here who are pretty checked out."
"They were talking each other's ears off like the two Geminis they are."
My niece finds a jacket she hasn't worn for a while. She tells me there is something exciting in one of the pockets. She slowly reaches in semi-dramatically and retrieves a small bottle of essential oils.
A woman sitting in front of Whole Foods: "I'm like trying to explain to this new guy I'm dating that there is a difference between a psychic versus a fortune teller."
A friend of mine is house sitting in Sebastopol. In the long note the owner left her she stated: "Most of the neighbors around here are nice. But be leery of the really nice ones, they are usually selling something. So unless you want to end up with a year's supply of organic gmo-free herbal lotion or bio-something protein powder, beware!"
From my neighbor:
My daughter and I went to the dog park at Ragle and when we got there there was this dog barking its head off through the fence. The owners asked if we could wait a minute and they would all leave with their three dogs. Then the crazy dog greeted our dog and the owner said, "Your dog is really balanced. That's why my dog is calm now because he's a really unbalanced dog but your dog is balanced so your dog balanced my dog out."
The other Sebastopol moment happened at Retrograde café. I was bussing my dishes and a guy was doing something to his coffee and I couldn't figure it out so I was watching. He started to explain what he was doing. "I'm blending coconut oil, peyote and psilocybin mushroom powder." I believed him for a split second and then he looked at me and said, "No just kidding." I replied: "I believed you since we're in Sebastopol."
License plates:
WLD SGE
SHARE
ZEPHYR
DOG UNIT
