watching the waves, a few surfers catch some perfectly, everything is in it's place, you can feel those negative ions dancing around
i have breakfast in an old cafe i used to hang out with in my surfing days, whaleys, down on the ocean, healthy soya burgers and smoothies, good food, a nice place, northern beaches girls in bikinis with surfer type boyfriends driving around in jeeps in the sunshine, muscles bulging out from their topless bodies, yeah it was a strange culture, that surfy time, a good one but a closed one to me, i never fitted in with that scene although i wanted to, the surfy ethos works for me, catch waves, ride em.
anyway that was twenty years ago, now it's been taken over by chinese people who have turned it into a diner, it's okay, i guess they let me read the papers, they smiled and offered me good service, it was just different from how i remembered it. maybe everything is, maybe i'm different, i am. everything is different, that's what happens in the space of 20 years.
someone saw a picture of me with long dreadlocks and looked at me and then said, 'what happened to you?'
'life sister,' i said, 'yeah i surfed a few waves and rode them, some wiped out, some washed me up where i didn't wanna be, some were just great rides and zen others had a ulterior motive, some were just nasty and vicious but here i am, a different man, a very different one, but one i like, one i can live with.
so here i am saturday morning reading papers, when i see scientists have discovered einstein's theory of dark matter is correct, there is an opposing force to gravity, dark matter. you would imagine a discovery like this would be on page one, headlines but it's on page seven, in a tiny little box.
i look at all the other events, the usual stuff, and i think wow, here we are floating on this amazing blue orb in an infinity of nothingness and all we do is fight and squabble, when the odds of life itself are so slim we should celebrate every single second of our experience. that's what im gonna do, in-between ranting about politics and stuff and making strange music and writing weird passages, deep down, i'm gonna stay in the moment and celebrate every single beautiful moment of life.
i finish my breakfast and head home. it's a gorgeous day and it's getting better.