A Few Good Details

Couldn't quite get it together to post last night after the book group meeting...everyone left relatively early, but Mom stayed for awhile. So after a good long "worrying about family" discussion with Mom that lasted way too late, I just had to crash. Won't be posting tomorrow either, as we're heading up and over to Nevada City to visit my bro and his family for the weekend. Should be plenty to report when I get back, though.

Last few days have been fairly unremarkable as far as big issues go. But there have been some good small details. Best thing about yesterday was a gorgeous drive into SF (for a client meeting) on one of those fresh smelling blue sky warm sun crisp air perfect Bay Area Fall days, coming out of the Rainbow Tunnel and seeing the GG Bridge, the City, the sparkling water of the bay with white dots of sailboats, the brown hills of the Headlands all spread out in one swooping panorama. Love it. My favorite view ever. (Or at least top 10.)

The best thing about today was walking down San Anselmo Avenue (the main drag of the precious little town I work in--I'm not making fun, I really love it. I've got *history* with San Anselmo Avenue, given that my mom's had a store there for nearly 30 years now) with my coworker, on another crisp sunny Fall day, and going into the foofy chocolate store and browsing around. The most amazing find: a mojito truffle, with an absolutely stunning ganache center containing a perfect taste of fresh crushed mint and a gorgeously smooth heart shaped outer shell painted with edible metallic gold. Woah. Gotta get me some more of those li'l beauties. It seriously made my whole mouth go "Oh. My. God."

I am continually impressed, grateful and humbled by the wide range of human endeavor--from the small to the large, from truffles to cities, humans actually *are* capable of making beautiful, complicated things.