note to self
pay wicked good attention….. be really generous sharing me with folks out there in the world – especially the San Marcos kids today….. find a storage facility and rent a space and get my stuff out of Joyce’s garage back there in Portland cause she deserves her space back and she’s been such a true friend, loyal and always there, and what’s greater than that….. make a deal with a moving company which I hope they don’t turn out to be wacky and/or crooked….. come on – have some faith, Brah….. drop in Friday morning to the San Diego senior center out of which a woman named Maria has been supporting me since I very first figured that heading all the way down there to SD was my path….. forget my thought-about October 22 ending of this daily Blog and go on writing and posting and blogging forever….. consider boogie boarding at OB Thursday afternoon even if the water’s getting too cold and the overall planet temp ain’t quite as hot as they think it might be, so’s to better warm my ancient but still-cute butt….. keep paying wicked good attention….. keep shining….. please finish my un-finished books, will ya!!….. make Golden Hill the center of my world, includes great coffee shops and beauteous walks….. start painting again, Bro, like pdq….. nourish this grateful heart of mine, kind of like the Isley Brothers’ heart, except this one’s mine….. go tell it on the mountain…..
Bud: from today’s Globe. I can’t open the rest because it’s behind a pay wall.
Tom Morey, inventor of wave-riding Boogie Board, dies at 86
One of Southern California’s finest surfers of the 1950s and early ’60s and, at the same time, a working jazz musician and an aeronautical engineer, nothing Tom Morey did made as big a splash as the 3 1/2-foot board he carved from a piece of foam in 1971. Continue reading →
Thanks Nancy. My friend Kate forwarded me this article from a Portland paper the other day. It was reading a story on him and his surfing and then developing the boogie board in a local Encinitas mag that gave the me the idea in the first place. Morey boogie boards are everywhere.