This is how we spent Rosh Hashanah. Seriously. And I took this picture. There was literally "not a cloud in the sky." Sort of unbelievable. And sort of wonderful. (More pictures here.)Aunt Becky is visiting and she had researched the Self-Realization Temple as a place we could spend time to celebrate the new year in our own way. It was beautiful and free AND there was free parking - how cool is that?! This is just another reason I love house guests!
It's amazing that this tranquil, beautiful, serene place is on a major road, but all this serenity did not shield us from a truly LA moment. As we were exiting Sam was approached by a woman who said "I think something happened to me." He had seen her meditating earlier in one of the temples and he asked her to sit down. She calmed down a bit with him but then Becky and I arrived and we asked what was going on. Apparently, according to her, she had (a) either had a transformative moment in the temple or (b) there was something in the "health bar" that she "took from under the sink" in the house of the "alternative doctor" she works for in the Pacific Palisades. I noticed that her eyes were dilated and immediately assumed she was on 'shrooms or acid. She thought she might puke, and that she had been poisoned. I took her into the bathroom but she decided she felt much better sitting next to Sam. She had called her boyfriend so we waited with her. We asked her what she had eaten, if she was on "street drugs" (Aunt Becky's words) or prescription, if she had allergies - she answered no to all questions. We hoped her boyfriend would give us a clue as to whether or not this was normal but when he showed up he seemed surprised, but not overly shocked. And then they left. It was all very unreal and yet very, very mellow. So West Coast!
The rest of the day was spent on UCLA's campus - first at the botanical gardens and then at a coffee shop. Good Stuff. Happy New Year!
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