by beachraven | Jul 27, 2019
Azi Feduoi, Fishermans Wharf, Monterey, California At the entrance to Fishermans Wharf, which is mostly a tourist attraction selling chowder and taffy, there’s a plaza with a short wall next to the bay. Musicians perform there, some of them homeless. It’s mostly...
by beachraven | Jul 19, 2019
The Peace Fence, Monterey, California It was hard to get. You had to have connections. If you looked right, long hair, bell bottoms, tie-dye, you could buy it in the park in a matchbox for two dollars. Two people could smoke a whole joint, and we’d just laugh and...
by beachraven | Jul 12, 2019
Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California Late one afternoon, it started to rain, a soft, cold mountain rain, and my dad went into the camper. I walked over to the string of fish, hanging in the lake, to clean them before I went in. I was about half done and...
by beachraven | Jul 6, 2019
San Carlos Cathedral, Monterey, CA An Altar of Nothing I was in a meditation group for over a decade. The meetings were held in the living room of a beautiful Spanish revival home near Hollywood. The room was empty except for the fireplace, an Asian rug covering the...
