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Friday, June 22, 2007

To Love where you Live....

It's night's like tonight that I am reminded--clearly... that I love where I live. It's not JUST my house, my Fermata, that I love, although living in such a wonderful house, and being aware of the struggle, the sacrifice and the love that made my house possible is AMAZING, but, it's living in Downtown Fresno that I love. It was in the hight 90's today, but, tonight was in the 80's and had a wonderful warm breeze--a perfect warm summer wind. I rode my bike downt 2 blocks to the Arte Americas plaza, and heard Patrick Contreras and American Gypsy, with an amazing mandolin player, Emma Scow, and 2 little boys who played flamenco guitar, and flamenco dancers-- then, a great cuban pianist played salsa music, and people danced. The beutiful latin women with the long skirts and bare feet--twirling and gliding--is there anything more beautiful than a woman in a skirt and bare feet-- with glistening smiles and hair blowing in the wind?? and the handsome young me, in their shorts and flipflops, dancing with the white girls--then, the fathers dancing with their little daughters and granddaughters--the music was gentle and playful and full of life and love--- and I sat on my bike, just outside the fence, and "stole" the music---along with many of my neighbors and their children--and I LOVE where I live! The ride to the plaza draws me by houses built in the 10's and 20's and are stately and proud, and some are begging for someone to rescue them, to care for them--to restore them to their intented beauty--I heard laughter, and saw my neighbors sittin on their porches, and in their yards--also stealing the night and the music and the warm summer breeze. Dogs barking, train whistles crying, stars dazzling above--this is mine. HOME.

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