I have been apartment-hunting this week and have seen everything from super tidy crate-and-barrel square-box apartments in Foster City to cramped but warm/friendly communal spaces in Bernal Heights.
One house I saw near downtown San Mateo really took the cake when it comes to oddball yet strangely fascinating. It was a 5-room house with a huge backyard that included a number of fruit trees (avocado, fig, apricot, fuji apple, lemon, orange) and other fruit-bearing plants (10 different kinds of tomatoes, a blackberry bush), a full garden with corn, squash and the like, and a fire pit around which they "conduct Buddhist ceremonies." They plucked a ripe fig off their tree for me to take home.
The house is populated by "hippies who shower," though I had to raise my eyebrow a bit at that claim. Here's an excerpt from the intro e-mail one of the girls wrote to me (yes, she included the scrolly header up top)...
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Hi Stephanie,
We met briefly last evening when you came over to see the house, and I regret not being able to talk to you a bit, and get to know you.
A little about us: M****** and I are both healers and we work day jobs, M****** builds magical healing tools, and I do intuitive readings. M****** works at a coffee shop, and I work at a local furniture store. We are both masseuses and energy healers as well, and we are pretty free about offering help to people in our lives if they need it. I love nature, painting, dancing, and singing, and M****** plays guitar. M****** teaches [Renaissance] swordfighting in the backyard, and I teach channeling classes out of the house sometimes. Generally, authentic, deeply compassionate, honest people are a match for us. Creative, nature loving, spiritually interested people are especially welcome.
Warnings: Sometimes the house gets messy, and stays that way for a week until someone has the energy to clean it. A couple of our housemates smoke, but they do it outside. And, there is cat litter. 'nuf said.
A****
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