"the coldest winter i ever had was a summer in San Francisco", is what the informed newly relocated San Franciscan has smashed in their ear from the minute they move here. Ye old adage need not apply 2 weekends ago when i received an informal invite to hang in mason park with the crew on a beautifully sunny summer day. It was nice to relive the old days of doing nothing but bullshitting and drinking pbrs with your friends.
In a genuine attempt at avoiding self righteous proclamations, or pseudo-esoteric babbling.. ill just simply say that there is a certain kind of clarity from spending time with people that you care about and know care about you.. Just a bunch of folks sitting around listening to real views and honest opinions.
Ive lately been thinking of the reasons why i feel exhausted by eccentricities of 'creative' people. Sitting in the park that day just made me realize how lucky i am to have the opportunity to know and be surrounded by the people that inspire me through their honesty.

Took a day to recharge over the weekend. Ended up having the pleasant opportunity to spend it with my girl at a wonderful place called SOLAGE, in calistoga. Amazing what hidden and inspiring wonders are right underneath your nose if you take the time to recognize them.

I havent written much in awhile. I forgot how liberating it can be. The time it takes to do everything one must in order to maintain what they call 'normal' occasionally distracts from valuable introspection and simplification in ones life. I was inspired to return to writing today by a friend who shared a brief and concise entry from 'Self Control, Its Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan, 1905'

It spoke of enlightenment through simplification, which for one reason or another, has resounded in my mind. Perhaps because of the deviations from the 'common course' or influence my life has taken in the past year and perhaps because of the sacrifices I am willing to make in the foreseeable future. Everyone yearns for simplicity; a deduction of peripheral for the sake of clarity. So, with this forum I plan to account things, places, people, teaching, art, music and all things that resound with me as 'catalytic heroes' on my quest for a simpler way of being. Like all things subjective, im sure some will like and some will dislike where im coming from, but above all else i hope this log evokes something, for better or worse.