A Trip To The Beach

The one thing that I do love about living in the San Francisco bay area is the closeness to the wonderfulness of the beach. To be honest, it is a past time that I hardly ever do. Perhaps I'm taking my closeness for granted. The thing is, I'm not a surfer or anything else that involves a board, I don't collect sea shells and stones, I love to take pictures but it's not something I always do at the beach, and I don't own metal detector or big straw hat to metal detect something in.

The truth is, I'm just a beach fan.

So, when my friend suggested we go last Thursday, I thought about it and decided "Hey, let's take the Jackmeister too!"

It was a relief to actually get out and find the beach again. I actually feel this way about any kind of nature or water substance. If I had decided that I wanted to go for a hike instead, I think it would have cleansed my soul just as much, but, as it were, we chose the beach.

I tend to forget how much I love the outdoors and the green of woods. I forget particularly when my life gets busy and hectic. But it's nice to sometimes have a reminder that we, as humans, were not born in cubicles. Sure, I love a city atmosphere, a concert, a theatre performance, and shopping, but there is something about nature that I simply cannot get from the city.

It's just an attachment that I think people seem to forget in this world. Particularly with the television season starting up again. :)

As someone who is without cable, I feel slightly superior as I read my book. HOWEVER I love my Netflix, so I'm JUST like everyone else. Thus, I think going to the beach was good for me. And for Jack. He slightly got over his fear of water and trotted about the waves with the rest of us. It was adorable. He even still smells like the beach a little.

Not to mention, he found that the entire beach was a huge sand pit to be dug in. It was kind of annoying at first since our blanket seemed to be his target with the excess sand, but eventually, when we saw his enthusiasm, we had to love it too.

Ahhhh, the simplicity of digging a hole.

I hope to "get back to nature" more. Even if that involves some different settings than the beach because I found myself calmer as I came back to work. It was like a breath of fresh air.

It's like I forgot, for a moment, that I was an animal too. We all are.

:)

To be or not to be...

"...poor Ophelia
divided from herself and her fair judgement,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;..."

- Cladius in Hamlet
Act IV, Sc. V

I love this quote. Isn't it true? And it's really so easy for women to be divided within themselves... between sanity and insanity, reality and dreams. It doesn't mean we are the frailer of the species, though. I think it just means we're more connected to another world than men are. Sorry guys.

I love a good quote, actually. I'm such a sucker for them... especially when they're Shakespeare. I got this little tidbit while watching the Royal Shakespeare Company's performance of Hamlet on DVD. I got it through Netflix and I kept it long enough to watch the movie twice. (That's a three hour production! Indeed, I LOVED it!)

There's something about Shakespeare that I just love and, since I like to consider myself an actor of some sort, creative in mind, body, and spirit, there is absolutely nothing about the Bard that I'm afraid of. I would LOVE... repeat that LOVE to do a Shakespeare play or festival or show or whatever!

I'm such a nerd.

But, seriously, for those of you Shakespeare nuts out there, this movie is awesome. I mean, it IS the Royal Shakespeare Company for pete's sakes and it IS both Patrick Stewart and David Tennant. Apparently, Jude Law (who played Hamlet in another production) made some snide comment about David Tennant's Hamlet on a talk show. I don't even think he knew Tennant's NAME. I think, if I would have been in the audience, I would have been like "It's David Tennant you asshole!"

Yea, I love Jude Law, but seriously... don't mess with Doctor Who man. He will mess you up with his sonic screwdriver.

That sounds kinda dirty... not meant to, though.

ANYWAY... I've noticed that a LOT of my blog posts lately have been about things that I love like television shows and words and now quotes. Maybe I should make that something I do on a weekly basis... you know, mention something new that I love. Fun no?

In the meantime, watch Tennant in the clip from Hamlet. Then decided whether or not Jude Law is full of beans... I think he is.