MGC BCH!

It's a glorious day in Venice, California! I was on my morning beach/Friday Farmer's Market stroll, and while waiting for the light at Windward and Pacific, I heard two tourist girls talking, and all they could say was "What a day!" back and forth. They were right. It doesn't get a whole lot more fantastic then the great outdoors today. Jasmine is in bloom, the air smells like the best perfume ever (with a distant aroma of breakfast bacon for good measure), the skies are electric blue, and the sun is shining bright. The surf looked great, and everyone was all smiles down at the beach. Magic.

On my way back, I passed this ancient VW bus, and noticed the custom plates ... MGC BCH. Magic Beach! The other day I saw someone write that sometimes you love a place almost like a person, and that is this magical Venice for me. Actually, I love it MORE than a lot of people these days.

Thank you, Venice, for all that you have been, are, and will continue to be if we have anything to say about it. And we do. Happy Friday! Happy Weekend! Please join us all for an entirely magical day of revelry for the annual Venice Mardi Gras parade! Dress up fun, and meet up at noon30ish (Venice standard time) on Rose and Ocean Front Walk. Let the good times roll on our magic beach!

Go Fwd!

Sometimes in life you get little messages from just paying attention, and sometimes they're perfectly timed. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I feel like a lot of times things feel real hopeless lately. Two halves of the country are fighting with each other. A new natural disaster seems to happen almost every day ... to the point where my little 8 year old friend commented on how there sure does seem to be a lot of awful things happening in the world, "like storms and stuff." And he's right.  It can all feel like an awful lot, and never mind even bringing your own stuff into it all - which can also be a lot. So, when you catch a license plate telling you to "GO FWD", you stop. You think about it ...

... and off you go. Forward. Thanks, Landrover in Venice. I will. As we all will. To better days ahead. I just know it.