Zina and Rose

Many people seem to be coming back to Santa Cruz/The Bay Area, and this makes me secretly happy. Rosey and Tom are moving to Oakland, so Rosey can go to CCA (I am so proud of her! That was my dream after high school) and tom can be his usual intreguing handsome DJ self. Ha. Rosey is very elegant, and a wonderful photographer that I am lucky enough to have posed for multiple times in the past. Some of these pictures are on her website along with beautiful shots like this:

Rosemaya Marie Lakos, my oldest friend


JJ and Renee just moved back to Santa Cruz, as did Sam, and Matt Hogan. I am happy to go visit Santa Cruz now and have an even wider selection of wonderful people to try to see. It's hard to fit it all into a 2 or 3 day period.

BUT Zina Denevan, my sister, my girl, my blood and bone, is moving to Detroit with Sasha her BF, so that he can teach at Wayne State. This is hard to take for me, though I support her in everything. Zina is like pure essence of Santa Cruz (stay tuned for dorky solliquoy); she looks like a surfer girl with her long white-blonde hair, she eats organic food that she grows herself, she has a tight and complex family, she is biligual and incredibly smart. In each of these traits I can draw parallels to Santa Cruz as a surfer town based around the beach, as a healthy haven for eco-conscious life with an agricultural past, as a place that was colonized in the 60's by back-to-the-land hippies who made strange and wonderful families, as a town of equal parts Mexico and America, and as the place nourished and supported by UCSC.
I'm sure I could do this sort of similie for everyone from Santa Cruz, because we are all formed by it, but still....I am basically going to miss her. I wish that I saw her more since I moved away, but whenever I go back we just pick up like we don't live 3 hours away. I tell her everything, and feel so good doing it. She is the kind of person who really listens when you talk, and asks questions I never even think to ask. It's conversation that crackles and moves and matters....
here I go again.