Hi Dien!

> I haven't gone body surfing now for a while,
> but body surfing is also a passion! The
> swirl of the wave around you as you are
> zipping towards the shore is a fantastic
> feeling (and you're getting a little bit of
> a massage by the wave, too, I think at the
> same time!).

***Body surfing is fantastic! I remember clearly the first time I was "tubed" while body surfing...it was electrifying! Now I am contemplating going to surf diva school next summer. My friend,Carol, and I think it would be hilarious.....

Once I had been sick for two weeks and went to visit my parents who lived at the ocean at that time. One evening I went and sat on a bench overlooking a jetty and the breakwaters with the spray just washing over me very lightly, very gently.....I was well by the next morning.

Nothing, absolutely nothing like the ocean.

*sigh* meanwhile in Bakersfield it is 112 today.

With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE