TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Travel California: Cambria Pictures and Guest Journal Entries

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Travel California: Cambria Pictures and Guest Journal Entries

(Zebra in the field behind us)

We keep a Guest Book in our Cambria place. It's more of a Journal where guests can write or scribble or draw in it as they please. I'm quoting some entries. I'm also posting pictures taken at Cambria and North of San Simeon (where the seals are). The pictures above show the zebra of San Simeon in the field behind.

Raw Watches

by Elizabeth

April 2001

Often the cows would line up to watch

the cyclists race by. She said to her

friend, Did you see that Jersey? And

her friend answered, I am a Jersey.

Valorie's Blanket

by Jeanie

April 2001

It was dark and I was asleep. Somewhere in my sleep trance I felt and heard Cecilia come into the room to get a blanket out of the closet. I thought, "She's cold," and in that thought time I felt the blanket placed onto my bed and covering me. "She's so sweet" came my very last thought before I fell back into deep sleep.

When I woke up the sun was shining and there was no extra blanket on my bed!

Valorie came to visit and send us her love.

Thank you, sweet Angel!

Untitled

by Virginia, David, Jesse

2/19/02

Spacious, freeing, sweet Cambria,

flowers teetering right on the brink of blooming,

the sea wild and ineffably powerful

these past days ...

We've lit fires,

gazed at stars

walked through "Ireland"

(the name we give to the walk "East-West"

across the beautiful pasture walk at the end of Windsor)

eat at the incomparable Bistro Soliel

walk hours along the sea.

Now, back to the madness of L.A.

The tradition of celebrating an Aqaurian birthday,

now 15 years along is the jewel in the crown of days.

Thank you, Cambria.

From,

Virginia, David, Jesse

Colors of Cambria

by Geru

10/28/02

There is a color of the water here at sunset that I found on a rock. It is blue-grey-silver. It is alive. The wide open space of the home got me to breathe and feel space inside myself. This opening is furthered by the day at beach listening to the waves with their rhythm of my heart -- which brought peace. So immediately I got sick --- ha-ha-ha --- Then as the tension receded from my body and I slept soundly a second night, I awoke refreshed and ready to enjoy the last morning here in Cambria. I will pass back into the life that unfolds before me, but when I need to feel the soft feminine relaxed color of Cambria within me, I can pick up this stone and take a deep breath of peace.

Thanks,

Geru

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Tags: travel, California, Central Coast, Cambria, holiday, seaside, Hearst Castle, zebra

This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.