Reality — that paler, starker version of our imagination
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Dear friend — For years I’d been saying I wanted to visit Ojai, and for years I’d not gone — it was just so close by I felt I could go at any time, which ended up being no time. Just a couple hours from Los Angeles, Ojai is a small, hippie-ish town known for its resort hotels, farm-to-table restaurants, and relaxing vibes. I dreamed of going to Ojai without actually going to Ojai for so long that the place took on almost mythic proportions in my mind: preternaturally blue pools that induced a hypnotic level of calm, food so delectable as to alter states of consciousness, sunsets igniting the sky like a Rothko-inspired aurora.
Reality — that paler, starker version of our imagination
Reality — that paler, starker version of our…
Reality — that paler, starker version of our imagination
Dear friend — For years I’d been saying I wanted to visit Ojai, and for years I’d not gone — it was just so close by I felt I could go at any time, which ended up being no time. Just a couple hours from Los Angeles, Ojai is a small, hippie-ish town known for its resort hotels, farm-to-table restaurants, and relaxing vibes. I dreamed of going to Ojai without actually going to Ojai for so long that the place took on almost mythic proportions in my mind: preternaturally blue pools that induced a hypnotic level of calm, food so delectable as to alter states of consciousness, sunsets igniting the sky like a Rothko-inspired aurora.