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Dedication to a Legend

Above – A photo of Evan’s license plate.

When the company I work for (Pacific Medical Buildings aka PMB) moved its office shortly after Evan Stone died, the company honored Evan by naming a conference room after him. Some items of interest in that room are (1) a photo of Evan’s license plate on his red Tesla that was buried with him (the license plate, not the Tesla), (2) Evan’s hat (he loved that hat), and (3) etched on the glass door of the room is his digital signature, one I saved on the network and placed in many PDFs of filings, letters, agreements and whatever else needing his signature.


As I’ve mentioned before, I knew Evan since 1992 when I worked with him at a law firm, and I later hooked up to work with him at PMB. He was a dear friend of not only me but his entire PMB family. 

When I walked by the conference room and saw the license plate photo it brought tears to my eyes, and it touched my heart to see etched on the door the signature that became part of my every working day there.

Evan truly was, as one of his friends told me yesterday “one of the good guys.”

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Empty Nest

Above – Selfie withh KJ just before she flew the coop yesterday morning.

KJ, my good friend since 7th grade, paid us a very pleasant visit from New Zealand.

She was here for a little over two weeks, and when she wasn’t off visiting family and her close friend, Connie, we had a really good time getting to know each other a little better and, as she said, she made a new friend (Bruce!).

A trip to Rancho’s in the golf cart…Dinner on the deck. KJ’s new friend took the picture.We met up for dinner in Mission Bay with another Jr high friend, Penny (Keenam), who traveled from Alabama to meet up with KJ.With our waiter …& enjoying a beautiful sunset!KJ likes her sweets … This was some sort of German chocolate cake on chopsticks. Yes, I had some too.Watching the sunset in OB.KJ’s youngest son, Jamie, flew out from Chicago for a few days and had dinner with us Saturday night. Ron stopped by later – a perfect photo opportunity!Beautiful!

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Only in OB Revisited

Above – Bruce Ron Maya Sparty Me & KJ (a friend of mine since jr high school) just in time for the sunset. KJ’s staying with us (from NZ) until next Sunday.

Sparty sporting Maya’s goggles.Cuddles after swimming.Sunset.“Daddy, let me fix your hat.”And now, only in OB … Where else can you see girls in their pjs eating ice cream on the main strip?And this. Oh my …

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Kando

Above – Little angel.

But look out. Soon he’ll be crawling down!

My yoga comrade Holly who visits from Pennsylvania sent me this photo of her nephew sporting his OBYoga BabyWear. Such a cutie!

This Redneck BBQ serves two purposes – grille & chill!



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RIP

William Pearce White 12/14/1924 – 12/8/2015

You will forever be remembered for your love, caring and generosity.

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Above – The OB Christmas Tree Friday, a day after we saw all the kids from OB Elementary School walking down Newport with their hand made ornaments. We drove by and they were all lined up to sit on Santa’s lap.

Below – Sparty in the car seat Thursday ready for music class.

What are they up to now? OB lifeguards at the arch practicing more lifeguarding maneuvers.

Oh, and how beautiful is this!!! From the top of the stairs looking south past Garbage Beach and the Coronado Islands. The lump on the horizon to the right of the islands is a huge cruise ship.

Friday night GNO with Boys at our good friends Kim & Dennis’ Escondido home. L-R (back row) Bruce, Me, Kim, Dennis, Vickie, Don. L-R (bottom row) Gail (peeking around the corner), John & Sean (our cook). We hired Sean to fix us a delicious Asian meal.

After dinner and after our wine & ornament exchange that Bruce said took us two hours. We had a lot of fun doing this, but I think the guys were falling asleep …

Photos from up North – Kando at 4 months old, and look at that, he’s already working on his first 100 words!

Kando’s first library story telling. According to Akuch, Alo is in there somewhere too …

Another one of those reasons to reflect on how fortunate we are – Just after the sunset Friday. In the foreground are the Christmas trees lit up across the street. Have I mentioned I don’t ever tire of November sunsets? Oh waitaminit… It’s December!! I love December sunsets!

Bill was moved to the VA Hospice Unit Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday he was resting comfortably and peacefully but Friday and Saturday he had pain and discomfort. We will see him again today and are hopeful they’ve got his medication squared away so he can rest in peace again. Robb and Akuch are driving down today to see Bill. They’ll only be here a couple days, but it will be good to see them and the kids. A reunion of cousins and enjoying the baby should be fun.

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Goodbye Moon

Above – Moonset this morning from the house.

Below (L-R) Barbie Kramer, Cheryl Odell, Mary-Louise McPhee, Chris (Cheney) Bayley, Gretchen Church & to the left of me is Linda Haselton Burke. I’ve known Linda since before I can remember, Cheryl and Gretchen from elementary school, and the rest from jr. high and high school. Linda and I reconnected at the 2015 OB Street Fair and have stayed in touch. Monday night Linda held a little get together at her beautiful University Heights home to celebrate my birthday, even though it was really an excuse to get together with long-time friends.

I do believe this was my Girls Scout troop 393!

Joanne, Jen’s mom, sent me these photos of the Ohio Thanksgiving vacation. Maya and Sparty have a lot of cousins there.  

  

Fun times yesterday waiting in line (outside the door) at the DMV. I realized around noon when I had to show my ID to have my signature notarized that I totally flaked on renewing my drivers license which expires Saturday! Already a bit on the stressed out side working in the office, trying to get to see Bill, teaching yoga at both lunch and in the evening and not being anywhere near packed and ready to go. So, I packed up my stuff, went to the hospital to see Bill only to find out he was in dialysis and they wouldn’t let me go in to see him, and waited in the sitting room for the doctor to respond to a page so I could talk to her (which she never responded to). So I left the hospital, drove to the DMV (now about 3pm) to find no parking places in the lot. I had to park a block away on the street and then wait in this line just to get to the information desk. By the time I was issued a number, there were 45 people in front of me. I got that mission accomplished, but failed the vision test so I’m now required to wear my glasses while driving. Whew! Hmmm … do you think that was too much information?

Finally, rest at last. At least for my students. I could have used those restorative poses myself!
  

After class we drove back up to the hospital to see Bill (9pm) only to find him sleeping. Another missed opportunity. He looked very peaceful an content and that was good to see.

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Jack in the Box

Above – Sparts. No comment …

Thursday we had lunch at SD Rowing Club, courtesy of Maeann. 

This is the mobile wood fired pizza oven and it’s owner/cook.

The view from the “Garty Pavilion.”

Inside – photos on the wall.

Ores

This morning – Bruce & Bear dropped me off, and then drove away …

Today is last day of Manouso workshop. Muscles are SORE!

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A day in the life

Yesterday Alo went shopping with Amma & Pappa. Above, he’s playing with a sticker the checkout guy gave him.

While Maya and Sparty contemplate which car they want to buy.

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Bruce & I went to a garden wedding for the son of one of my GNO friends. Nick, the groom, is an avid rock climber and was once on the US Climbing Team traveling the world climbing and competing. Nick’s now-wife, Steph, happens to be one of my yoga students, as Nick’s his mom, Gail. It was a really nice wedding in Gail & John’s yard. Here’s a photo of the trellis as we walked up the driveway.

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This brought back good memories of Robb & Akuch’s wedding.

And here’s a photo of 3 of us GNOers & the groom L-R Kim, Nick Vickie and me.

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Missing from in the GNO group photo is Gail, the mother of the groom.

During the ceremony, butterflies were released, and during dinner we had a visitor.

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Today’s going to be another hot one. Stay cool.

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LA Ceremony & what happiness really is …

The picture above is L-R, Ehrman (the Mighty Ruler), Gloria Goldberg (my teacher) and me. As I mentioned a couple days ago, Gloria was awarded the Lighting the Way award for her dedication and service in the field of Iyengar Yoga. I met Ehrman a couple years ago at an Arrowhead retreat. He’s an opera singer (baritone), and he sung the most beautiful song for Gloria and Guruji following her receiving the award.

Happiness is …

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… Alo, under the highchair with his belly button.

… and being IN the highchair with his best friend, Ernie.

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… and HUGS!!

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“AAAAhhhhhh”

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