I could have spent Black Friday in the malls, fighting crowds, standing in endless lines, eating bad mall food, maxxing out the Amex. But instead I spent a glorious Friday with good friends, enjoying the fabulous SoCal weather and scenery. I think we should make this a Black Friday tradition!

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Watching the fireworks up and down the coast from Palisades Park

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If this was me driving down Main Street I'd be listening to this:
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All that we see or seem/ Is but a dream within a dream.
- Edgar Allen Poe

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"Open the door now.
Go roll up the collar of your coat
To walk in the changing scarf of mist."

Carl Sandburg

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