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This is a combination in my mind of Lorin 'Whitey' Harrison's surf barn on the avocado farm in Capo Beach where I used to go with the Sizemore kids. There also is a sense of Wardy's shop under the Eucalyptus trees at the mouth of Laguna Canyon Rd. and Third Street in Laguna. It also combines a slightly dinged up woody - we didn't worship them as some do now - we just enjoyed them for being old, impractical, and getting us to the waves. Enjoy!

When I had the pleasure of interviewing Jackson Ordean, he began by telling me he grew up barefoot and shirtless in a small art colony town on the beach..." pungent salt and seaweed smells up my nose and the natural 'music' in my ears of foamy water flowing over gravelly sand. It was all a crystal clear world without words. People spoke 'at' me in staccato sounds I didn't really hear, but I abstractly saw each facial expression and their moving mouths... I was in my own world of feelings and pictures...all I knew that was real and true at the time." He shared that at some point in his life journey,"... my 'left' brain turned on, about the end of High School, and it was as if someone had punched the 'reset' button. I enthusiastically...