Here is to happy chakras

A few weeks ago I was at lunch with some co-workers, outnumbered by several who do not live in Sebastopol (although we all work in Sebastopol).  One said, "I could never live here.  There is a one-way street through the middle of town.  You are driving and can't turn this way, and there are protesters over there... where are you supposed to turn??"

I have been looking for a place to live and so have spoken with a few landlords on the phone.  One in particular sounded quite quirky, and just as I was thinking that she inquired: "Before we get any further I should tell you I'm a Libra with a Scorpio rising.  What about you?  Hopefully not a Virgo-anything."  Semi-dramatic sigh.  "I really don't do well with Virgos."  (I had told her I pay my rent early, am clean, employed and would not be around much.  But Virgo would apparently trump all those things.)

And because I am in the process of packing my things I have found items I didn't remember I had. One was a card from a woman whose daughter I had babysat years ago.  At the end she had written, "Thank you very much for all your conscious childcare."  Another was an "energetic" picture of a woman someone had drawn for me a long time ago, with smiley faces adorning each of the chakras.

My co-worker (from Santa Rosa) was "quizzing" her young daughter Yahel, asking her some random questions.  One was, "What is the capitol of California?"  To which she answered, "Sebastopol, of course."  Her mom also told me that one of her kids' dreams is "to be Sebastopolians."
(Of course if the question had been: "What is the yoga pants capital of the world?" then her answer would have been correct.)

At Ragle Park I heard a mom tell her son it was getting time to leave.  After a few minutes she said, "All right.  We really need to go.  I have to drop you off before my class!  And you do not want to be around Mommy if she doesn't get her qi gong fix!"


More license plates:
LIKMNDS
YINIFY
PRNYMA (bonus points if you know what this is referring to)

And you know when you are coming out of Starbucks, and you see this in the car parked next to you?