Crazy Signs; Her Inner Child; Messages of Hope Viewing; A Talented Muralist

On our last day at the Coast Guard base in Petaluma, Suzanne decided to lift weights at the gym while I ran. I have been having some lower back pain, so skipped weights for a more relaxing 4 miler. She enjoyed the workout, but was taken aback by this sign on the basketball court wall.

Suzanne needed some unwinding, so she took a chance to let her "Inner Child" out. 

Fortunately, there were no signs reading “Adults, please act your age.” Or “Adults using kids’ facilities will be sent to detention.”

We are now half-way through our 2012 US and Canada Tour, and have arrived back in San Jose after our too-brief stop in Marin/Sonoma Counties. Last night we held the Messages of Hope documentary private viewing to a packed house for sixty-two very enthusiastic members of the Center for Spiritual Living, San Jose.

There were more questions after the viewing, and lots of interest in Suzanne’s S.O.A.R! Workshop (it will be presented on Saturday 28 July at CSLSJ, 9 AM to 5 PM). The book signing after the film also went very well.

This morning we got out for a waffle and a veggie omelet at a San Jose institution, Bill’s Café on Willow Street. It’s in a neighborhood called Willow Glen, with modest, but beautifully kept houses, and lots of small businesses along its central Lincoln Street. (Note: “modest” here in Silicon Valley means $600,000 to $800,000 for a 50 year old, 1,600 sq ft ranch). The food was great, but the walk along Lincoln was even more fun. We enjoy meeting new people, and we stopped to talk to Rene Guyot, an artist who was putting the finishing touches on this beautiful mural outside a soon-to-be-opening yoghurt shop. Rene recently completed a 21 foot long mural of pirates for a kid’s bedroom wall in a ritzy area of San Jose. He will also be displaying a 120 foot canvas in a museum here in the near future. Rene’s father was an artist, and he reminisced about using his French father’s paints and brushes when he was only 6 or 7. He obviously learned his art very proficiently...