{"id":5042,"date":"2008-10-17T13:12:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2008-10-17T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T20:21:16","slug":"a-song-and-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5042\/a-song-and-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song and A Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week or so ago I was out for an early morning run through Balboa Park<\/a>.\u00a0 This is one of San Diego’s gems and part of what makes living here worth the cost.\u00a0 It was daybreak and quiet; mostly the sound of my own footsteps echoing across the Spanish style buildings that house the many museums and exhibits.\u00a0 Occasionally I would see another runner or a young couple up early for a walk (or maybe they were still out, ending their evening with a walk).\u00a0 Mostly though, it was a wonderful run of solitude.\u00a0 As I came up on the little art village I turned in to its plaza.\u00a0 Here, in a few hours time, there would be artists selling paintings and sculptures and all forms of creativity.\u00a0 I still don’t know why I veered in, the plaza does not go anywhere.\u00a0 It is just a cul-de-sac of stone pavers lined by small, decoratively painted arts and crafts buildings used during the regular business hours of the park.<\/p>\n

There was one other person on the street that early, unloading paintings from his van and arranging them just so.\u00a0 He looked to be in his late fifties and he looked to be happy, but more than that he looked interesting<\/em>.\u00a0 I found myself slowing down as I made the turn to go back by him; I guess I wanted to connect somehow… there was something about this guy.\u00a0 So I stopped and said hi.\u00a0 We talked a bit about his paintings and we talked a bit about my run and pretty soon we were just talking.\u00a0 The kind of talk that is comfortable, like you already know each other.\u00a0 His name was Steve and he was almost 74 years old, yet we had a lot in common.\u00a0 He had been a shot-putter and football player just as I had.\u00a0 We knew the same names, although he knew them as the guys that came along after him and I knew them as the guys I tried to emulate while growing up.\u00a0 Our philosophies were similar and our backgrounds too.\u00a0 It was a rewarding conversation Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week or so ago I was out for an early morning run through Balboa Park.\u00a0 This is one of San Diego’s gems and part of what makes living here worth the cost.\u00a0 It was daybreak and quiet; mostly the sound of my own footsteps echoing across the Spanish style buildings that house the many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-flourishing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18001,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18001\/overnight-news-americas-wealthiest-people-are-about-to-discover-just-how-much-poor-undocumented-and-homeless-people-deserve-to-live-in-vacant-office-buildings\/","url_meta":{"origin":5042,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: America\u2019s wealthiest people are about to discover just how much poor, undocumented and homeless people deserve to live in vacant office\u00a0buildings.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been expecting this news for a while, but I didn't know how it would play out. 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