hitting the jackpot

I worked this last weekend. It seems I had been spending most of the weekends in San Francisco.

But work happened, so I stayed put.

On Friday night, after work, I drove to Fairfax for some hot yoga (hatha not bikrams).

I drove home in the dark night, all blissed out from 90 minutes of sweating and stretching.

Sir Francis Drake is the main artery in and out of here, a two lane road that curves through West Marin’s pastoral lands.

The drive to Fairfax takes me past farm lands on rolling hills and through a dark and majestic Redwood forest.

Every time I go somewhere, I pinch myself. I don’t have to commute but when I do want to leave, I get to drive embraced by Redwoods.

So here it was Friday night at 9 PM.  And it was the darkest of dark.

As I exited the forest and entered farm land all there was was a black night sky, bright stars and a crescent moon.

I imagined my previous Friday nights in the city. at 9 PM, things were just getting started, people were out. But, here, we were all slowing down.

I like the city but I also love this. The smell of of the redwoods, the silence of the night, the owls and skunk and deer that cross my path in their nocturnal habit.

I have been here 6 months. I spent a lot of my life moving every four months. The 6 months flew by and I have no desire or intention to leave. I am in love with Northern California.

I have been described as shy in my life. It’s funny to think of now.

I guess I don’t talk much out of my element, it is how I know whether I am in the right place.

Here, in California, I can’t stop meeting and greeting people. I am constantly talking and striking up conversations with new people. I wouldn’t be described as shy here, I am in my element, with my people.

Some people say be satisfied with what you have but I say never stop searching for what makes you shine. Lord knows, I have lived so many different lives in the last 15 years. Sometimes things jive, sometimes not and sometimes you feel like you have hit the jackpot.

xx