Dates and updates

On a Saturday evening, sitting outside Community Market...

Gentleman, to a group of women:  "Can I join this table of goddess women?"
One of the goddesses:  "Only if you promise not to use that word."

Guy, pushing a drink back toward his pal.  "Nothing sweetened with dates.  Or coconut, or rice syrup.  I just want a good old-fashioned refined sugar buzz."

Woman passing by, "I've never heard so many people talk about tea as they do around here.  It's like I'm in the English countryside or something."

At the table next to me:  "Your weekend update from west county.  People are meditating... people are doing yoga...  people are writing in their dream journals, and buying organic fruit.  Thank you and good night.  May your third eye dream pleasant things."

Favorite Community Market customer comment:
"Why do you need all this information?  People in Sebastopol don't bounce checks."

Favorite blog comment of the week:
"I miss Sebastopol!  My little zen utopia of a town."

Bumper sticker:  "What would Kali do?"



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Astro-logical

Conversation overheard at Coffee Catz: 
(this was not, I should point out, a meeting of the Preppy Astrologists, although I would like to meet that crew)

First woman:  "Well I don't know what Mars is doing, but Jupiter is kicking my ass."
Second woman:  "It's like I'm in a swamp, trying to walk and I can't.  I keep setting simple intentions but they are not materializing.  I'm trying to move forward but some unseen force is holding me back."
Third woman:  "Could that be Pluto?"  {Chuckles all around.}  "And don't get me started on the eclipse."
Man, with purple hat:  "Transformation is all around us.  I'm so glad to be here with each of you right now, acknowledging the transformation."
Second woman:  "Transformation, or transmutation?  Because I think it is a transmutation."
First woman:  "No, I don't think transmutation will come for a few months, when..." (some planet moves into some new position and something happens with an opposing something).
Purple Hat Man:  "Interesting.  Transformational transmutation perhaps?"
First woman:  "Or a transformative transmuting metamorphosis?"  
Third woman:  "Now you are just not being logical."


Local flier:
"Macrobiotic Potluck Dinner"

Favorite line of the week:
"Welcome to Sebastopol.  Yoga pants capital of the world."

Favorite blog comment of the week:
"Sebastopol's Farmers Market is like Burning Man with food."
(thanks Carmel)  :)

Sebastopol snippets cont.

"I know - ginger lemonade.  Lavender lemonade.  Honey lemonade.  Can't we find some place we can just get normal lemonade?"

Small sign on a coffeehouse table:  "Reserved 6-8 for a meeting of the Preppy Astrologists"

"And folks were getting upset.  I was like, 'Calm down.  Everyone relax.  Chill out.  Take some kava kava pills.'"

Woman sitting outside Community Market:  "Yes, the person sitting next to me was a hippie.  Or as I like to call them, a 'hipper-than-thou.'"

"Remember the old days when you could just make a cake that wasn't gluten-free?  When you could serve ice cream without having to have a dairy-free alternative available as well?  When you could have diet Coke at a birthday party and not get lectured about it?  Life was simpler before I moved here."


Favorite Sebastoblog comment:
"Your latest update from Sebastopol, CA.  Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your sign."