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Kris Farren Moss's avatar

Now this is the kind of vanity I can get behind! Thank you for transporting us to this magical place.

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@oliviajoffrey's avatar

Right? I feel like I need this reminder on my bathroom mirror, looking me in the face every day. We are so much more than our shell.

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LESLIE T's avatar

Love this! I seem to recall Zarzuela also....but was it a restaurant??

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@oliviajoffrey's avatar

I bet it was a restaurant too. The Zarzuela my mom took us to was at the Oakland Coliseum and this particular show featured Placido Domingo singing in Spanish…

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Eva Schreier's avatar

Excellent piece and excellent reminder!

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@oliviajoffrey's avatar

Thank you Eva. I seem to need to remind myself regularly too, just because the culture we swim in tells us the opposite.

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Barbara Mangini's avatar

So GOOD.

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Brooke p's avatar

Your voice stirs my soul! Love experiencing the magic of beachtown bohemia through your writing.

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Molly Gary's avatar

Love this! Your mother and her friend Harriet are very similar to my own mother and her friend Julie. They were smart, avid readers, interested in the world around them, politically opinionated, and such good conversationalists. I loved to just sit at the table and listen. They too were sometimes vain when it came to people who were not as interesting. Julie lived on Lake Michigan in a wonderfully bohemian house and was a professor of Women’s Studies at UWGB. She had a similar wide assortment of friends and like Harriet gathered them all on July 4th.

Thank you for this edition of Beachtown Bohemia, the memories and the reminder.

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