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I fasted today, but I didn’t go to temple for Yom Kippur. I just didn’t feel like going. On Yom Kippur, there is an important memorial service, and it would have been the first time going to the service for my father, and I just didn’t want to do it. So, instead, I just broke all the rules. I went to CVS pharmacy, bought myself a $3.99 disposable camera and walked to Hermosa Beach. It felt very spiritual walking around the beach looking for photos to take. Or then again, it could have just been hunger.
If you have any interest, you can see the photos here. One warning: the photos are not THAT interesting, and I’m not in any of them, so don’t get too pissed at making you do an extra click of the mouse for nothing.  If you’re never been this this part of the country, maybe you can get a sense of the “sleepy” beach community I’m living in right now.Â
I’ve grown to like Southern California, but I find October depressing in the dry West. I love FALL. I love what it represents — a new beginning. I think the time of the Jewish New Year makes a lot more sense than January 1st.  I love the change of the weather and the leaves and the new school year and the new TV season, and everything new that goes with Fall. As I was taking my walk today, I realized that today’s weather in Los Angeles was not that much different than it was on July 4th! Where’s the change?Â
Most of my blogging friends do NOT live in California. I know you sometimes laugh at us for being weird and electing actors to be governor, uh – TWICE.  But try to remember that the State of California has enhanced your life in many ways: the birth of the internet, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, California Pizza Kitchen, and the word “gnarly.”Â
Now it is your turn to pay us back —
Could someone help a Southern Californian who is homesick for Fall and email him a photo of a leaf or tree changing colors?
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