La Jolla lifeguard box
Block-letter poetry on a bronze-green box overlooking La Jolla Cove.
For the benefit of Googlers, perhaps, here's a fragment of the text.
TRANQUILITY
BOOMER
FRESH DEEP SOUL PURITY
SPRAY GENTLE BREEZE
WAVES BREEZE REEFS
SPIRITUAL HEALING
BODY SURF RESPECT ROCK
WORMS FINS ENDLESS
PELICANS UNPREDICTABLE
FRIENDS RIPTIDE
A FREE SPIRIT PALM TREE
ADRENALINE RUSH
FUN EEL GRASS MAGIC
ETERNAL CALM PICNIC
BOOMER CAMARADERIE
BUNGALOWS YIN YANG
CHANGES COMMUNITY |
Lots of mysteries around this box. What do lifeguards keep locked up in a small metal box on a post? Spare speedos? And why the elaborate yet primitive ornamentation? Is it all just a defense against graffiti?