On Monday I was at the park with Javi and a group of students from University High School walked by laughing and joking. I thought momentarily about how lucky they are to be at this point in their lives when there is so much opportunity and adventure ahead of them, but I also remembered how challenging and confusing that time of life can be. It’s so hard to know which path to take, there are so many options. I don’t think I’d want to go back and relive any period of my life, and I don’t think I’d want to change anything in my past if I could, knowing that any little change could have a huge impact in terms of what my life would be right now, especially if making any changes meant there was a chance I would not have had my children. I can’t imagine what life would be like without them. Later on Javi and I went down to Baker Beach and there were tons of teenagers there — I have a feeling it was senior cut day today. The smell of pot was very heavy in the air!
On Tuesday I walked to Tennessee Valley Beach and saw a bobcat on the trail!! I’m getting my beach time in before I head to Wyoming for a month. While I was there, I gathered some sand and pebbles and ocean water in a jar to bring to my sister’s friend Julie, who lives in Utah. I’ll be staying at her house for a couple days on my way to Wyoming. One of the things she misses most living there is being so far from the ocean. I’ve always lived close to an ocean, Concord was the furthest and then the beach was only an hour or so away. It’s so strange to think that many people go this whole lives without ever seeing an ocean.
