Several children and I were going through the alphabet playing a game that involved food items. I got stuck on K. "I can't ever think of any 'K' food," I mused.
A young boy looks at me. "Um, kale?"
"When all else fails, go to yoga."
"I'm looking back over our online purchases. God, we buy a lot of essential oils."
On the trail near Analy I stopped and talked with another walker. She told me she tends to alternate between Sebastopol trails and Spring Lake. I asked if she noticed any difference in conversation topics when she is in Sebastopol. She thought for a moment. "Well, in Santa Rosa it's a lot of talk about their dogs and what they bought at Costco and where they went on vacation. Here, I've overheard so many conversations about the latest supplements they're using."
Waiting in line at Community Market, a customer approaches the cashier and askes if there are chocolate bars in the store. He laughs as she points to multiple options directly behind him. "I didn't realize I was standing right in front of a tower of chocolate."
Another customer, "Oh yeah, the health nuts around here have to have their chocolate fixes."
A friend relayed to me, "My girlfriend and I arrived at her new rental with five bags of groceries. The parking lot was packed and we had to park out on the street. We tried to decide which would be the least likely bag of groceries that might be stolen if we left it unattended [since the window on her truck was broken]. At first we thought nobody would take the bag of lettuce and chard. Then we had second thoughts being in west county and decided to leave another one. Anywhere else, we laughed and said to each other, a bag of healthy foods probably wouldn't be so vulnerable!"
At the library: "If you see a bunch of yin yang images in the shape of a moon printing out, those are mine."
A neighbor of mine: "I get into my car and see the neighbor's kids 'painting' something on their car. As I back out of the driveway and can see it better I notice the words LOVE and KIND HEART in white against the windows."
"She told me she wanted to do something enlightening. I told her, we're in Rohnert Park! I don't think there are many enlightening things around here. This isn't Sebastopol."
"It was your typical west county dinner. Drums going, lots of sliced vegetables, herbally infused water. Different bean dishes and way too much hummus."
License plates:
BAY LEAF
NO GRAIN
SLONOMA
HRMONIC
DO CHILL
Sebastoblog has a sister column in Sonoma West Times
http://www.sonomawest.com/sonoma_west_times_and_news/opinion/columns/sebastoblog-hippie-haven/article_93b6bbd4-87c1-11e9-b93f-13ce4e23b8d7.html
