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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (20250)	3/31/1999 11:14:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The Huntington Library's Desert Garden blew our stockings off. Wow. Pure pleasure. We got our noggins burned, and bot hats. That garden pretty much cinched up our desire to move to the warmer climes. Dash is an old hand at Pasadena/San Marino/Altadena; our old stomping grounds. He's also very funny, and perceptive. He's that kind of proof that people don't need education to be literate. We drove around and looked at our old houses, and the surreal mid-city beauty of the forest houses in Pasadena-San Marino, et al. We really enjoyed them, heck who wouldn't want to live there. But then the residue we all panned down to, was that none of those people are as wealthy as we, because they live in the place they do ~ LA. LA is one of those cities where wealth is 95% useless. It can't be used to decrease freeways, driving time, inequity, air pollution, noise, etc. Wouldn't trade. Mean it. We have higher quality of life than those people. Maybe they don't know it. I don't mean to pick on anyone. Jerks. Field rats. We had some terrific fun. Wonderful conversations. We are all old friends, and there is no ice to break. Watts Towers. COOL! Wow! If a person can accomplish something like that in their life..... Felt the same way about the Van Gogh. Super-humans. Monday after VG we headed out to Anza Borrego, where we spent the rest of our time. Hearing and watching birds. Behind our room. With oranges, lemons, grapefruit, and sacred datura. Quite a beauty. The desert wasn't dusty. That's amazing. AMAZING. The back of our suv didn't get dusty, even tho we drove over the sands for days. The colors of the landscape ~ AHHHH. AHHHH! Drove down canyons in quadrants of the Park where we saw no one the whole day. Wow! That is really wonderful. Quiet. Sizey. Respectable and respectful. We deserve it. Rocks, blooms, the teentsy differences between the environments a few feet away that shelter/demand different plants. Wonders. The desert is a place of wonders. Special; everything is special. Only the Special survive. Very, very, exciting. And yet calming, too.