Dang! It’s been almost a year since I last posted anything here. Better late than never, they say, right? So why, after all this time, am I posting now. Well, it turns out a friend of mine, known affectionately as the ‘Crusher of Dreams’, asked me about my website, so… here we are. It would not be right for her to check out the site and see an almost year old post, now would it? So, today’s post — aptly named, I think — is dedicated to the Crusher of Dreams. By the way, for those wondering, I shot and processed this with my iPhone 4S while down in Monterey, California, a wonderful place I and my family fell in love with. Â I posted this shot over on Instagram as well, where you can find me @jacquesgude.

Soul Surfer

I’m always meeting cool and interesting people, like this surfer dude I met yesterday morning down at Venice Beach (name withheld, just in case he’d rather not be named). Â He’s been surfing here, pretty much everyday, since 1982, and he had some great stories about sharks and dolphins, as you might imagine. Â You could tell from talking to him, and from the gleam in his eyes, that he he was really passionate about the surfing lifestyle and that he would not likely trade that for anything. Â Talking to him kind of reminded me of Patrick Swayze’s surfer/philosopherÂ character, Bohdi, in the very cool “surfer movie” from way back in 1991, Point Break. Â If you have not seen it, it’s worth seeing.

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Dreaming Out Loud

Surfin’ through Life…