by beachraven | Mar 4, 2022
Sunset, Monterey Bay, Monterey California I’m finding it difficult to write because everything I put down seems trivial. I awoke a few mornings ago to a rush of feelings, like a raging river filled with a profound weariness mixed with self-righteous...
by beachraven | Feb 26, 2022
Cannery Row, Monterey, California It started with a feeling. I don’t know if I can describe it, but I understand it when I feel it. It’s made up of bits and pieces of an old story or a memory, a flash from my childhood made current by recent thoughts. It has...
by beachraven | Feb 12, 2022
Veteran’s Park, Monterey, California There are 185 wooden steps up the Stairway to Heaven to the Huckleberry Hill Nature Preserve. Giant Monterey Pines surround them, and the air that drifts off the bay is fresh and invigorating. Like steps in places like...
by beachraven | Feb 4, 2022
Sunrise, Monterey, California The unemployment office sent me to a place called Mecanex Corporation, a factory that made parts for long-haul diesel trucks among other things. My job was in the plastics department running an injection molder. It took them two...
by beachraven | Jan 28, 2022
El Porto, Manhattan Beach, California One of my favorite surf spots was El Porto in Manhattan Beach in front of the Chevron refinery. Paddling out just after dawn before the onshore breeze picked up, the ocean surface would be like glass. Sitting on my board...
