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Osprey
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Baja? Why wait?
Grass Widow
Early on, a few white ones came all the way down the Baja California peninsula to the very end. Most stopped well short of this prickly place –
content to enjoy the lovely strangeness of the north and mid-drift. They came because of pure wanderlust and curiosity. Many new ones come for little
reason – they belong nowhere; Contrarians riding their ponies backward they can be found anywhere there is no law, pure (or almost pure) water and a
few others like them.
Legions of workaday Califas vacation in the south, treating Baja like a grass widow who is waiting, not high in a meadow, but in an oven touching an
unfathomable sea. More and more retired boomers are moving to this Florida Lite place and finding almost what they have been dreaming of all these
years.
Midlife visitors are often disappointed to find the widow could wait no longer and has taken up with others who love her rustic charm. They may
remember her gently handling the reins on a buckboard rumbling up a road to a rancho – if they wait too long they may find another vision; a woman
they cannot recognize who is almost trotting down a busy street, screaming into her cell phone and clutching her yoga mat like it was a Ming silk
tapestry.
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micah202
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....mushroom season already!!??  
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Osprey
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No seasons for me. I don't need no stinking hallucinogens. I'm high on Baja. More on old than new or future I think.
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DanO
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You got a chuckle out of me again, George. Fortunately, a good stretch of bad road, the lack of an electrical grid, a fickle water supply, big
Pacific swells, and lots of wind have combined to keep the yoga mats at bay for my little neighborhood. Rumors of development swirl around
periodically but always die off, just like the spring flowers. Even the tuna pens couldn't make a go of it (but there's a silver lining -- the float
rings make sturdy driveway borders).
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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pauldavidmena
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Contrarians of the world unite! Happy Hour begins... now.
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Iflyfish
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Indeed Osprey, indeed!
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watizname
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Jorge, sometimes you blow my mind.
Thanks.
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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freediverbrian
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I put on some Greatful Dead reread the post and understood everything
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willyAirstream
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I read it backwards and found the secrets. Always enjoy your thoughts Osprey.
Grateful and thankful.
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Osprey
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Thanks Willy, whatever works. Aboard ship in the Navy, out of boredom I suppose, I read all of Shakespeare's comedies upside down.
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Udo
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Osprey and myself have a very close relationship friendship, however long-distance it is. George is a terrific fisherman and part time non-fiction
writer.
p.s. all the speculations about my early demise are premature.
I may have only 4' of colon left, and will need to walk with an ostomy bag around my waist for the rest of my life, but you can't keep an old German
warhorse down for long.
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Thanks Willy, whatever works. Aboard ship in the Navy, out of boredom I suppose, I read all of Shakespeare's comedies upside down.
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Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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willyAirstream
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Osprey, any links to your stories? I enjoy your writings.
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Kgryfon
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I had to look up the term "grass widow." Never heard it before. Thanks for broadening my horizon with such a wonderful little piece.
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BajaRat
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Good stuff, Cheers 
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Udo
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willyAirstream, Just type in the BN search criteria OSPREY, and you'll get all of George"s posts since day one.
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Osprey, any links to your stories? I enjoy your writings. |
[Edited on 7-10-2014 by Udo]
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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805gregg
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Too late, been there done that, time for new places, there is always a nice place waiting to be found
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Bubba
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Good stuff Osprey.
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Timinator
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There are lot's of places in Baja that aren't going to see silk laden maidens with cell phones and yoga mats for quite some time. Although, I
haven't seen a wild buffalo in a while.
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Genecag
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very poetic and meaningful!
Make it a Great Day!!
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Ken Bondy
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I understood every word. Just not the sentences  Seriously Jorge I always love
your writing!! You know that.....
carpe diem!
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