Words From Da Road, Homie Homes

Friday July 3, 2009 11:21pm

We Started out the trip in a great city called Sebastipol which was a great city of retired hippies and Santa Rosa techs, and the culmination of the two is a swanky but quirky town filled with educated and fine mannered people. We had an interview with Jay Shafer, the founder of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company that builds or sells the plans to teenie and tiny homes. It was so nice to see the house that Jay lived in, and I would even call it a tiny mansion on wheels. He gave us some great advice on “find out what you makes you happy, and get rid of the rest” and that thought really resonated with what I have felt but never put words to, then we made a quick gaunt to the city, San Fran, where we saw rolling clouds slowly taking over the city, though thankfully it never reached the mission which was our destination. We stopped and got lunch and ate it at the park where live and free jazz collected and entered my ears and into my mind. It was perfect, and we continued on and found parking (a gift) on the street corner of 20th and Valencia. And we continued on to do an interview with Aleks,the executive director Loco Bloco, a community group that does outreach with communities dealing with poverty and the problems that all too naturally come out of an atomphere of help and hopeless( And Aleks came out of one as well), and in this mission they teach children drums, dancing, gardening, theater, etc. Alex was an amazing woman, one who came out of poverty, a gang and with only half of her middle school done. I loved that she was more like a peer, she was only 25 years old when she became executive director and has been bettering the program ever since. She kept on telling us how lucky we were to be given this opportunity and it really made me understand this experience so much more, and the words she left us was something to the tune off “ Live to love” and I really loved that sentiment she left us. Then we decided to go see their rehearsal and it was great to hear the drumming live and when they stopped to talk it took a second as the vibrations slowly decompressed which was not only psychedelic but beautiful... Then we went out and I met a person that works for Ning.com, a org that I actually am interested in and she told me to keep her updated about my projects and I plan on doing so. It was interesting because she never worked for start-ups and esp in support so it was interesting reminder to look out for opportunity in every shape and form! So yeah then I came back to the RV and bummed a clove from Jason and it got me as high as you know what would, and it really was a shock. And now I lay ready for sleep GOODNIGHT!