Coronado Magazine - May 2020

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SCOTT AURICH PRESENTS CORONADO’S FINEST PROPERTIES Go to scottaurich.com to see floor plans and 3D interactive tours of all my current listings for sale.

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922 Glorietta Ave | $6,395,000

475 A Ave | $4,399,000

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1119 9th St | $2,789,000

872 C Ave | $2,750,000

140 Carob Way | $2,395,000

711 Tolita Ave | $2,395,000

1117 9th St | $2,350,000

3BR, 4.5BA, 2,760 SF Corner lot w/elevator, fenced yard

4BR, 4.5BA, 2,651 SF Covered front porch w/basement

Build your dream home on this 7,500 SF lot

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629 B Avenue | $2,195,000

1099 1st St. #109 | $2,195,000

1101 1st St #309 | $2,075,000

1155 Star Park Cir 2C | $1,449,000

714 E Ave | $1,995,000

4BR, 3.5BA, 2,430 SF Roof top deck, 2-car garage

2BR, 2.5BA, 2,234 SF Bay & city views

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51 Catspaw Cape | $1,725,000

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3BR, 3.5BA, 2,319 SF Contemporary in Downton L.J.

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1043 Ocean Blvd | $11,000,000

929 1st St | $6,400,000

258 H Avenue | $3,030,000

767 I Avenue | $2,625,000

911 E Avenue #101 | $765,000

10BR, 11BA Represented Buyer & Seller

6BR, 5.5BA, 4,613 SF Represented Seller

7BR, 5.5BA, 4,232 SF Represented Seller

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Thank You to Our Team and Community

As we respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to recognize the individuals at Sharp Coronado Hospital for standing strong and serving the needs of our patients with the extraordinary care we call The Sharp Experience.

We also offer a special thanks to our remarkable community members for their continued support. Your generous donations and gifts, as well as the many messages, letters and cards of encouragement, have inspired us all. We are honored to serve you.

To learn more about our efforts, visit sharp.com/coronavirus.

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The Official Magazine of Coronado, California

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09 The Wonder of Coronado 17 Local Artist Helps Bring Attention to a Good Cause 42 Lessons Learned Along the Camino de Santiago Your Favorites

22 At Home

True Colors in Coronado

31 Confessions of a Perfect(ish) Mom Like Mother, Like Daughter

38 Operation Homelife

Creating Connections, Creatively

52 Yesteryear

The Golden Age of Coronado Polo

56 Finance

Spring Clean Your Finances

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Business Development

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Rescue pup Porsche is not convinced about being used as a substitute face mask for Wag'N Tails owner Melanie.

The Wonder of Coronado

by Belinda Jones

Just when you think you couldn’t love Coronado any more…

We always knew our island community was

remained calm and well-stocked and our usual sing-

something to be treasured, but seeing such resilience,

song “thank you” to the sweet staff took on a whole

resourcefulness and good humor at this most

new gravitas. Down the road at Tuesday’s Farmers’

challenging time has filled us with even more pride and

Market, shoppers quickly adhered to the new social

wonder.

distancing rules, patiently lining up and waiting their

Everywhere you look in Coronado, bad news is countered with positivity - rainbow hues chalked on

turn to buy local fare in the sunshine.

We are fortunate that even if our exercise quota

sidewalks, flowers blooming at every turn, a comedic

was limited to walking around the block, it would

face mask serving your morning coffee, an empathic

still be enchantingly scenic. Of course many choose

exchange with a stranger because we’re all keenly

to cycle, and bike use and purchase is up, meaning

aware that everyone is facing their own struggle.

Holland’s Bicycles has a steady flow of customers

As soon as the shutdown was announced, locals

seeking expert advice or help with a repair. Speaking

clamored to volunteer their services and the N2N

of repairs, there’s no putting off those home

Neighbor-to-Neighbor program quickly evolved,

improvement jobs with hardware stores open long

checking block by block to make sure everyone,

hours at both ends of the island!

especially at risk seniors, was cared for. Meanwhile

While some people have had extra time on their

PAWS Helping Paws ensured our furry family members

hands, certain essential workers have had to take on

were also offered protection.

extra shifts. Postal worker Stacie McKissick confided

While off-island supermarkets experienced uncouth

that the new rules of not touching your face hadn’t

crowding and ravaged shelves, Boney’s Bayside Market Coronado Magazine

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fazed her since she had been trained during the anthrax scares in 2001.

Despite being under extra pressure, she hasn’t missed one day of breezy cheer on her route.

While most offices were obliged to close, the City of Coronado has redoubled its efforts, keeping everyone informed with clear, consistent COVID-19 updates and responding to the heart-wrenching plight of our small businesses by offering $2 million in Lifeline Loans.

The Coronado Chamber of Commerce personally called every eligible Tier 1 business owner (all 134 of them!) and within a week of receiving the first application, the city began cutting $15,000 checks “with an ease that could bring us to tears,” so said Kristy Pierre and Katherine Farley, florists of Root 75.

Shannon Wiegel of Charisma Home & Gifts was equally delighted, speaking from beneath her Hotel Del face mask: “It means the world to us to feel supported in this way!”

Shannon also credits her faith for sustaining her family through this time, as does Melanie Parks of Wag’NTails pet store, doggedly determined to get through this crisis and now happily offering self-service dog washing in upgraded tubs.

There are certainly an abundance of angels living among us on this island. The landlord who called a local non-profit and told them he would not be collecting rent for the month of April, the woman who placed an order with Coronado Cupcakery to show her appreciation to our local firefighters, Coronado Public Art Commissioner Brad Willis fundraising to enable FiveLoaves

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Yana Aldridge of Cafe 1134 delights customers with daily face mask costumes from Prince to chic Parisienne, Darth Vader to the Lion King!

Laura Tovar of Crown Bistro sends a beautiful message to her customers with her outfits as well as her delicious fare, served with pretty floral accents.

Shannon Wiegel of Charisma Home & Gifts gives the City a thumbs up as she collects her Lifeline Loan check wearing her Hotel Del face mask from FiveLoaves TwoFishes.

TwoFishes to distribute free face masks to the community, the Pay It Forward campaign inviting locals to buy gift cards for Night & Day so that our first responders and health workers could collect an appreciation meal.

David Spatafore of Blue Bridge Hospitality has been hit hard having multiple restaurants on the island but, thanks to a donation from the McMillan family, was able to bring 170 meals from the Little Frenchie kitchen to Sharp Healthcare doctors and nurses.

Meanwhile, Garage Buona Forchetta announced, “No one goes hungry on our watch!” and delivered free Family Meals to locals in need, despite having debuted their Coronado restaurant just as closure orders were issued. Many have marveled at their cheer in the face of adversity.

“It’s easy to be charming when things are going well,” co-owner

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Marco Sedda notes. “It’s when the times are hard the true test comes.”

There can be no doubt that Coronadans’ elegant optimism and grateful attitude have been key in keeping us all buoyant.

“Our focus is now on a brighter future,” confirms Sandro Lattenero Of Nado Republic, revealing plans to beautify the Crown Shops parking lot so that, one Sunday when the restrictions are lifted, he can set out tables and bring the pleasures of an Italian piazza to Coronado.

What could be nicer - locals coming together to chat about the week while enjoying al fresco fare and, best of all, the opportunity to

Sandro Lattenero of Nado Republic is making plans for brighter days ahead.

look around and see the faces of our friends and neighbors, united once more.

Here’s to that day!

Nelson of Holland's Bicycles is apparently experimenting with a mustache under that mask...

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SOROPTIMIST

Local Artist Helps Bring Attention to a Good Cause

by Ellen Breitner Earlier this year, Soroptimist International of Coronado (SIC) went to local artist Kathleen McCabe and asked her if they could use her art piece “Sisters” for the cover of their 17th Legends Luncheon invitation and program. McCabe graciously agreed to let them use the image.

Members were excited over the art, one volunteering, “This is perfect. The image brings to mind SIC’s mission of joining together to help women and girls, and it represents the friendship bonds that are formed with the women in SIC working towards that shared goal.”

Two days after the invitations began arriving

McCabe was 9 years old, her mother had

served on the Board of Directors for Quilt

in everyone’s mailbox, SIC announced that

a discussion with Marjorie De Laurentis,

Visions, became Regional Representative

they were unable to go forward with the

who was lamenting about wanting to teach

for Studio Art Quilt Associates (saqa.com),

luncheon this year due to the pandemic,

sewing to her children, but she had six sons.

and a founding member of Paradise Textile

but they still wanted to further recognize

McCabe’s mother didn’t hesitate to volunteer

Artists in San Diego. Her artwork has been

McCabe, a talented artist and supporter, and

her; she was one of five in the first sewing

exhibited nationally and internationally

share her story with others.

class and that’s how it all began.

along with being published in books and magazines, and she has curated and juried at

McCabe is from Coronado, one of nine

During the time McCabe was a young

children born to a Naval Officer and his

mother, she found she needed a creative

wife. She has spent most of her life here, and

outlet and became serious about creating

As her website explains, “Kathleen interprets

her history and feelings about Coronado can

art with fabric. McCabe went on to receive

people, places, natural elements and life

be seen in her works on the subject. When

an art degree at San Diego State University,

situations through images, primarily

art quilt exhibits.

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representational, rendered in cloth. Her

explained “are poignant for that moment in

Her mother had traveled to Guatemala

unique fiber work has been described as

time.” When seen from a distance, you think

several times, and inspired by those trips,

painting with fabric, drawing with thread,

her works are done in oil paint, and it’s only

McCabe traveled there twice, bringing back

and creating with cloth.”

when you move in close you realize it’s all

colorful fabrics that she used in “Sisters”

fabric and thread.

and continues to weave into her artwork,

McCabe categorizes her subject matters,

especially the vibrant works she’s done of

and they include Succulents, Coronado,

“Sisters,” the cover art SIC selected, was

Portraits, Structures, Floral, Guatemala,

inspired by an image of a cave drawing in

and Desert. When asked what inspires her

France. The shape of one of the women

“As an artist, it is important to me that the

pieces, she said “Often it’s when the sun

reminded McCabe of one of her sisters, so

viewer takes a step back to consider what my

hits something just right” and she needs to

in 2005 she created an image of herself with

art means. I have something to say. What

capture the vision. With her portraits, they’re

her three sisters, using mostly fabrics from

the viewer interprets is personal to that

usually inspired by her family, and as she

Guatemala, along with U.S. sourced denim.

individual, but it is most gratifying to me

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when my artwork speaks to the viewer, evokes thought, and especially gives them something to contemplate afterward,” said McCabe.

McCabe became familiar with SIC years ago when she was a single mother. She shared her view of SIC by saying “The encouragement and assistance the members of this organization provides opens the door of possibility for so many women who may have no other avenue of hope.”

McCabe’s most recent show, “Shifting Tides” at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, Oregon ended on April 27. Upcoming shows that will include McCabe’s works are “Southern California Contemporary Quilts” at Oceanside Museum of Art, May 9 - Sept.

13, 2020; and City of Coronado “Celebrate Local Artist Series” banners on Orange Avenue 2020. Gallery openings will depend on the current status of the pandemic.

For more information on McCabe, go to kathleenmccabecoronado.com. She is also featured on the Coronado Arts Commission’s website, coronadoarts.com.

SIC is grateful to her for allowing the use of her art to celebrate their annual fund raiser.

SIC’s re-imagined fundraising venue - that you can enjoy right in the comfort of your home – will be an online, virtual fundraising event. Please look for more details in the near future, coronadosoroptimist.org.

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AT HOME

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by Denise Lyon

We have been fortunate in Coronado during this health

crisis. People are behaving respectfully and taking the

necessary precautions to stay healthy. In spite of all of

our lives being disrupted, our town seems to be adapting beautifully to the many changes we have had to make.

People are going on more walks, working on their yards,

stopping to admire the sidewalk art work, observing our local birds and flowers, and enjoying the quiet streets. Families have more time together. There is a kind of peace here, a time for reflection and time to discover the beauty around us.

On the other hand, during this quarantine, parents must run a household, work online and home school. In addition, some families have elderly parents and/or neighbors to look after. Parents today have many more responsibilities and are looking for ways to soothe nerves and beat boredom.

Consider the rainbow, a magical bridge across the sky.

Finding and seeing a rainbow is exciting. Around the globe they symbolize a promise of hope, fortune and success.

Bring some of that beauty, magic and color into your home. Here are a few interesting and entertaining ideas.

We can pull through this pandemic together and celebrate the remarkable privilege of being alive.

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Fresh & Healthly

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Planting seeds, herbs and flowers is quick, easy and rewarding. I repainted my terra cotta pots with a rainbow of pastel colors and planted them with my favorite herbs. It’s so nice to not have to go to the store for a few sprigs of parsley when it’s so easy to grow.

This simple exercise gives us a close up view of the intrinsic magic of nature. Nature is a great inspiration in defying the odds. Think of a plant that pushes through a crack in the cement, animals that migrate across miles and face hardships and yet find their way back home, a tiny acorn that grows into a huge oak tree or a rainbow that appears at the end of the storm.

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Masks

C olor ed Dyes

If you want to create your own dye, you can boil red cabbage. It creates a purple color that, with a squeeze of lime (acid), becomes red. Add baking soda (alkaline), and it becomes blue.

Wear gloves and use clear glass bowls to see the color magically change.

I used this dye to color flour sack dishcloths (can be found at Target) to make face masks and used extra dye to color white wash cloths. The color washes away with use but the project is an engaging science lesson involving color and simple chemical reactions..

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s e l b a t e g e V Fruits &

Bring a rainbow indoors with colorful fruit and vegetables.

Each color contains different vitamins and minerals, a perfect set up for a delicious nutrition lesson.

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Ra inb ow-B ri g ht

Add a rainbow of colors to waffles and pancakes with fruit powders, like dragon fruit (bright pink) and blue spirulina (vibrant blue), that turn pancakes and waffles into brilliant colors. If you don’t have the fruit or vegetable powders, just add a drop of food coloring to the batter to turn ordinary into extraordinary.

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Books

Lo ve F or

Books are another way of going on adventures without

leaving home. Mason Cooley was spot-on when he said, “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.� Share the journey and read aloud.

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Confessions of a Perfect

by Hattie Foote

(ish)

Mom

Like Mother, Like Daughter

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PARENTING Hello from quarantine! I am writing this in April, and my hope

I have been so impressed with how our schools and teachers

is that by the time you read this we will be slowly and safely

have handled this situation and watching the kinder Zoom

emerging from this nightmare.

calls is pretty adorable. I am grateful for all the hard work they have put into the distance learning, and I am sure Lux

Today marks one month since we have been at home, aside

is grateful she won’t just be learning about Real Housewives

from the few grocery stores runs I have had to do. A lot has

from her mother.

changed from the last time I talked to you! I am now a homeschool teacher, my cute red manicure is not so cute, and I

I asked the kids what the first thing was they wanted to do

have cried several times at Vons with anxiety, Its fine, we are

when this was over and they said Disneyland! (Yikes, I am

fine, I’m fine...”

definitely going to pump the breaks on that request!) I want to go to dinner with my friends, the beach, and yes, I want to

It has just been so surreal hasn’t it? It feels like things went

go to Target! I want to hug everyone, and I mean everyone;

from 0-100 quickly. One minute we were at Open House

strangers, acquaintances, but most of all my mom.

night at our daughter’s kindergarten class, and the next minute, school was cancelled indefinitely. I have tried to keep it pretty positive but accepting that the school year was about to look very different was hard for us.

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PARENTING I’m extremely lucky that she lives a few blocks away, so even though we can’t hang out, I can stand under her balcony like Romeo and yell up to her. I drop her groceries off and Facetime 73 times a day, but I want nothing more than to sit close with her at Claytons Bistro & Bakery and resume our lovely breakfast dates.

If anything, this experience has made us appreciate the tiny things and to not take our lives for granted.

That, and it has also made me into a complete raging germaphobe! As Mother’s Day is upon us, I thought it was fitting to introduce you all to my favorite person in the world. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that she’s way more fun than me. She’s bossy, she’s sassy, and she is a crossword prodigy.

I always say she could easily win Who Wants to be a Millionaire and she is easily the most generous person I know, so she would probably give her prize earnings to her grandkids or a total stranger.

To know her is to love her, so everyone meet Mom. I mean Margo Roberts.

Tell us a little about yourself and your family: I am a mother and an artist. I am the mother

a lot of time in Mexico and France and I

of two creative daughters, Hattie and

have been to Antarctica. I have also studied

Cecilia, a joyful son-in-law Christopher, and

at Oxford and was supposed to go back

grandmother to two super grandchildren,

this summer, but well guess what...that old

Lux and Hunty! I am happiest when I am

Coronavirus put the kibosh on that!

with my family and my sister’s family. We all

Mentioning

dream of winning the lottery and buying a

bragging. Truly anyone can go. But while

compound!!

you are there, you pinch yourself thinking of

I’ve lived in New York City, Massachusetts,

all of the great minds that came before you

New Mexico and California. I have spent

and your pea brain!

Oxford

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What is a big mom fail that sticks out to you?

I have two biggies that sta nd out. We were living in a rural town in New Mexico and I forgot to pick Hattie up from her bus stop at an arroyo, (which is an irrigation ditch from the Rio Grande). Poor little thing was crying and all her little friends were standing there patting her back. It broke my heart.

But it also looked like a Norman Rockwell painting. Weird, huh?

The other was when we failed to realize Ceci was very nearsighted. She was almost 7 years old! When we stepped out of the building after getting her first glasses, she said, “Momma... I can see that building across the street!” I was dumbfounded and broke down crying at how I had truly failed to notice this!

There are other fails that are funny, like telling Hattie that the crystal emblazoned flip flops she wanted for her wedding were too expensive. I could make them a lot cheaper.

Famous last words. Even I wouldn’t wear the ones I made. She really did look very cute in the expensive ones I eventually bought her!

Can’t leave her sister out. One night while getting Ceci ready for bed, I asked, “Why do you have two pairs of underwear on?” She said, “I don’t know, Mommy. You put them on me this morning.

Oh boy big fails little fails ... they are all part of the package!

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What are your favorite things about raising kids in Coronado?

Oh, that’s easy... the beach, boating and a huge circle of amazing friends who would do anything for you!

If you could give one piece of advice to a new mom, what would it be?

Don’t try to make perfect children... try to make happy future adults!

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OPERATION HOMELIFE

Creating Connections, Creatively

By Krysta Murray

As we approach peak PCS (Permanent is if you’ve been a part of it for awhile, you Sign up for classes, look up groups in your area Change of Duty) season, many military might actually know some people already of interest to you. Another option for military families are once again facing relocation. stationed here from previous duty stations, families is that many commands have a family Though there is a travel ban in place by the or a friend of a friend puts you in contact. readiness group (FRG) of families that are Department of Defense bumping many of For newer families or for those less military- also attached to the same command. They these moves, June through August is when populated locations, there may not be a single usually hold meetings to discuss upcoming we see the most moves. Not to gloss over this person you know. You can make life a lot events and socialize. You can also reach out stressful time of checklists and coordination easier by finding your people. So, how do you to them for emails and potential Facebook and attempts to plan, but I’d like to focus on avoid being an anti-social hermit?

groups to get involved virtually.

the settling part.

There are the traditional ways of meeting Since so much right now is forced to be The household goods have arrived, you’ve people, if there isn’t a pandemic with social online, this is a great time to be creative. unpacked most of the boxes, and the craziness distancing guidelines in force. These would be Search for online groups you can join. For eases into making this new and strange place hitting up public places in your community, me, I’m an avid reader and at my last duty your place. The nice thing about the military such as the gym, library, parks or coffee shops. station I found that there wasn’t currently an

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OPERATION HOMELIFE

If there is one thing this social distancing has taught me is just how much, even for a homebody introvert such as myself, that I still wish to meet friends at the beach and let our kids play in the sand. Or grab coffee and catch up with friends, in which we will likely talk about our latest reads.

Don’t let the current situation of the world keep you from settling in and feeling welcome.

You are never alone when you are a military family because there are others in this with you, who completely get it and are willing to give you an introduction from six feet away or from your inbox. active book club. So I started one. We’d select I often find that I make too much of, well, The nice thing is that these unique military a place to meet and discuss our book for that everything when preparing a meal. I am not life situations create a common connection month. We’d all chip in to order coffee and alone in that, so set up some food exchanges! in and of themselves. No matter what it is donuts or bagels, etc. and gather to chat about Swap meal preps to change up your options.

that brings us together, move after move, I

books, which often led to other conversations

still have these close friends, just scattered

and created some fast friendships.

My husband and I love strategic, multiplayer all over the world. I find that incredible and resource management-type games so when we rewarding.

An alternative to this is setting up a virtual found other couples that also loved these kind event and logging in to chat at a set time. of games, we held game nights. I’ve also seen In March, we met up with friends we made While I no longer have that book club, many Bunco groups going to online formats in 2005 who were in the area for vacation. internet and cell service for the win on so people can still socialize and play from It had been ten years since we had last seen keeping those connections alive.

their own home.

them. It felt like no time passed at all. Except now we both have kids and their ages tell us

Maybe crafting is your thing. Find others Use this to your advantage to meet new people otherwise. We made plans to meet up halfway with similar interests, get the dish on the best instead of self-isolating. Being anti-social can between their current home and ours for a deals from local stores for art supplies, share be lonely and make the transition so much vacation together in the future. tips and tricks for projects and maybe partner harder. Plus it’ll give you something to look up to create some. Post videos of your work forward to when we finally can go back to Don’t miss out on making these connections. or make a tutorial. Literally anything you normal and have meet-ups in person again!

You just might make some lifelong friends.

enjoy, someone else is likely to also enjoy it and engage with you on it.

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Fields of grain were dotted with red poppies.

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Lessons learned along the Camino de Santiago

By Kris Grant

A walk across Spain unveiled gifts that will last me a lifetime.

As I write this, it’s Easter Sunday. I am alone, yet one of 26 million people who watched Andrea Bocelli’s “Music for Hope” broadcast over YouTube, live from Milan’s majestic Duomo Cathedral. Bocelli sang his final song, “Amazing Grace,” from the Duomo’s deserted terrace, with breakaway scenes of an empty Paris, quiet London and still New York. “I was blind, but now I see…” Such an interesting lyric for a blind man to sing, and yet he sang it pure and powerfully, with a hint of a smile at the end, perhaps conveying his hope for what lies ahead. And so I write…

One year ago, on May 8, 2019, I embarked on a journey to walk the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain. Today, I look back fondly and with newfound reverence, to the 45 days I spent in France and Spain, walking solo, yet connected in spirit with thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the world making the journey.

In a nutshell, the Camino de Santiago is a network of pilgrimage trails to Santiago Cathedral de Compostela in northwestern Spain. Sometimes called “The Way of St. James,” tradition has it that the remains of St. James (Santiago) are buried here.

There are about eight established Camino routes to Santiago through Spain, France and Portugal, and I chose the Camino Francés, the most popular route that leaves from the delightful southern French town of St. Jean Pied du Port, at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains and winds through Basque country, the northern plains, and the mountains of Galicia towards the sea.

Each night, I’d stay in an “albergue,” a hostel for the exclusive use of Camino pilgrims. At each albergue, I’d present my Camino passport and receive an official stamp. At the end of my journey, I presented my stamped passport at the Santiago Pilgrim Office, where it was carefully examined, and I was presented with a Compestela, an accreditation of my trek.

As I walked the Camino, six life lessons – gifts really – were revealed to me that I find are applicable to the far different journey we are experiencing today. So please let me share my trip in that light.

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My friends, Dineke from the Netherlands and Julie from New Orleans, entering the old city of Pamplona.

We’re alone but connected.

I am frequently asked, “Why did you decide to walk the Camino?”

Truth is, I wasn’t sure; it just called to me. My friend Mary Sikes said that for her, it was life changing and life affirming. I was moved when I watched the ultimate Camino movie, “The Way,” starring Martin Sheen and directed by his son Emilio Estevez. My friend and Rotary bud, Dan Gensler, and his daughter Brooke, and Father Mike Murphy walked it two years ago, spurred on in part by their Catholic faith and also as a fundraiser for Sister Ethel’s Missionvale Care Center in South Africa.

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wanted to blow up my “travel” of couch-to-refrigerator. I wanted to delete television, politics and breaking news from my daily routine. The Camino represented a dramatic commitment to a lifestyle change.

If you’re thinking about walking the Camino, you can easily join a community to point the way before you leave. I joined American Pilgrims of the Camino, a group that sponsors several get-togethers and hikes that resemble a typical day on the Camino.

On an Orange County hike, I loaded my backpack and walked with 70 past and future Camino pilgrims from the city of Lake Forest to Mission San Juan Capistrano, a distance of 12 miles.

And I did it a second time for added confidence. I knew if I could walk 12 miles in California, I could do it in Spain!

On one walk, I met Nina, a teacher, who was leaving the same day as I was. She gave me the name of an albergue in St. Jean Pied du Port that she heard was a great starting point. After

Day in, day out, I was affirmed in my belief that people are basically good and kind. If I asked directions from a server at a bar or at a local shop, he or she would walk outside with me and carefully point and explain the way, asking if I understood. I never felt brushed off.

The Camino did not disappoint: each day I grew stronger in recognizing that living is really about interacting with our fellow human beings. I loved the many times people passed by me with smiles and the simple greeting of “Buen Camino!” This literally translates to “good path” but is generally received as “good luck and happy traveling.”

“It’s all part of the package.”

There were tranquil days of blissful 70-degree weather and there were a few days where I pulled myself uphill in blinding rain, with sucking mud tugging on my shoes. One morning on the old Roman Road the wind was so cold that I wore my rain poncho to blunt its sting.

Once I dropped a glove and had to backtrack a half mile Did I mention that the scenery was gorgeous?

to retrieve it. In Roncesvalles, I paid for albergue workers to do my laundry and didn’t realize until I unpacked my

flying to Paris, staying at a hostel there, then taking the train

backpack in Zubiri that my LL Bean pants were missing; they

to SJPP, it was a pleasure to see Nina at my first pilgrim dinner

had left them to dry on the line. I wore shorts until I reached

at Beilari albergue. I met Dineke from Holland and Julie from

Pamplona, where I bought a new pair.

New Orleans, my roommates for the next two nights, with whom I

To minimize the possibility of bedbugs (and I never

would walk for the first few days. Dineke, an experienced walker,

encountered a single one), all pilgrims deposit their hiking

then bid us goodbye and shot ahead. Julie liked to leave later in

shoes on racks at the entrance of each albergue. One morning

the day, but we often arranged to meet up in the evening at our

I was one of the last to leave, and I found just one pair of

targeted albergues.

left. Yes, they were grey Merrells, but this pair was size 9.5;

And so, I’d often walk alone, but with hundreds on the

mine were size 8. (And I usually wear a 6.5; pilgrims typically

800-kilometer (497 mile) trek, following yellow arrows and blue

choose two sizes up to allow for foot swelling with all the

and yellow scallop signs, pointing the way.

miles they rack up.) Someone, probably thrashing about in

It was always easy and natural to join in conversations

the low light of pre-dawn, mistook my shoes for their own,

over breakfast or lunch at each “bar,” the name for eating

and off they went! Fortunately, the next town, Sahagún, which

establishments in the rural cities, with many strategically located

marked the halfway point of the trek, was fairly large, and I

at the entrance of each town, their bright red or green umbrellas

was able to buy a new pair of hiking shoes, which weren’t

calling out to weary pilgrims. And there would often be lively

great, but sufficient to get me to Santiago.

communal dinners at the albergues. Occasionally I’d walk for

I could have gotten upset at any of these events, but

long stretches with pilgrims from other countries. It was a nice

shrugged them all off, realizing you’ve got to take the bad

discovery to find that Americans didn’t dominate the landscape,

with the good and that it’s all part of the package.

and that the Camino was popular with pilgrims from South Korea, Argentina, New Zealand – you name a country, and I can tell you they were represented!

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The lighter the load, the easier the journey.

Months in advance, I began preparing for the trip, selecting a sturdy yet lightweight backpack and filling it with bare essentials.

I learned that most pilgrims would pack one pair of long pants, one pair of shorts and no pajamas, a couple of t-shirts, lightweight jacket and rain poncho. Each day we would wake up early to walk, arrive at the next albergue in mid-afternoon, shower, and put on the clothes we would wear the next day, while we washed and line dried the clothes we wore that day.

I found this simple routine to be so freeing, allowing me to enjoy the journey and not the burden of lugging possessions.

Possessions, I learned, do not define us, and the amassing of them does not make us more worthy.

The trip was not about accumulating “stuff,” instead, it was about sharing what we had and accumulating friendships and experiences, the real stuff of life.

Slowing down is good for the soul.

The scenery of northern Spain is diverse and also, it’s downright gorgeous. Swaying fields of wheat, dotted with red poppies. Walks cloistered in sheltering trees. Undulating paths with long descents into towns in the far distance, where medieval church towers mark town centers. Walks along acres of vineyards, the source of all the “vino tinta” that accompanied our dinners.

I quickly adapted to a new rhythm of life: walk, eat, sleep; repeat. It soon replaced the hectic and insane cacophony of traffic, congestion, electronics, and hurriedness.

As I moved slowly down the path, I heard the tinkling of cowbells, the “baahs” of sheep, the sound of wind rustling through trees, and, in villages, the ringing of church bells.

Often, the sound of birds, and sometimes crickets, surrounded me. On the first couple of days, I thought there must be homes just beyond the trees, because I kept hearing cuckoo clocks. I soon realized I was hearing the real thing – the call of the common cuckoo, a bird that migrates into Europe each spring.

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avoid the hot mid-day sun. At times I was the only pilgrim in

I’d begin with an early morning walk on an empty stomach (no

sight as I looked ahead and back on this vast expanse of waving

worries about bathroom stops!). After 10 or so kilometers, I’d stop

grain and nothingness. There was often silence, except for the

for breakfast at a bar. The craving for “café con leche” (which I

crunch of my shoes and the clicking of my poles on the gravel. I

can’t seem to find here in the states) plus a croissant and orange

don’t usually meditate, but this aloneness was sort of awesome.

juice helped pull me forward. I would watch as two or three

I’d look ahead and see nothing; where was that next village? Then

oranges were squeezed into a machine, which then dispensed the

a valley would suddenly appear, with a small village tucked in its

sweetest juice into my glass. After a half hour rest, I’d press on

hollow, along with my bed for the night.

another eight kilometers or so and stop for a light lunch at another

To accomplish a goal, take it one step at a time.

bar, usually taking off my shoes, stretching my toes, and changing my socks. And then I’d walk the final eight or more kilometers to my target town where I’d collapse on my bunk for a few minutes, then get up to shower (aah!), and get the day’s laundry on the line

Early in my trip I emailed my friend Sally, who had walked the Camino a year earlier. “Oh geez,” I wrote. “I still have 700 kilometers to go! How am I ever gonna do this?”

while the sun still shined, which, fortunately, it did until about 8 p.m.

I slept so well on the Camino! At all albergues, it’s lights

“Just put one foot in front of the other,” she advised.

out at 10 p.m., with most pilgrims in bed by 9 p.m. I’d close out

So that’s what I did. I relied heavily on John Brierley’s Guide

the day on my Iphone, under the covers, sending out Facebook

to the Camino, an annual guide printed on thin paper that maps out

posts, and captioning photos. But for the most part, sleep was

the Camino, outlining the elevation highs and lows of each day’s

most welcome after a full day of exercise. My legs and feet often

trek, and describing landmarks and albergues in each village.

throbbed at bedtime, yet were fully recovered when I awoke, ready for the next step.

“The Camino provides.”

There’s a saying along the Camino: “Have no fear, because the Camino provides.” You need shoes? The next city will have them; you need Vaseline for that blister? A fellow pilgrim will give you some. You’re low on water? Miraculously, a water fountain will be just around the next bend. It happened over and over. I found that I could let down my guard.

As I reached Santiago, I realized that the Camino was not so much about arriving at a destination. It was about enjoying the journey itself.

It’s one reason many pilgrims go on more than one Camino. I may go another someday, when the world is again “safe.”

“The Camino provides” is a philosophy that lasts far after the journey itself. I came away with a greater faith in people and their ultimate kindness, more confidence in my own capabilities and more patience.

Those gifts are certainly being validated today, as I watch fellow citizens making masks, while healthcare workers and first I made it! Proudly displaying my official Compostela in front of

responders bravely work the front lines.

Santiago Cathedral.

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About Last Month’s Cover Last month’s cover concept came from Denise Lyon. While working with the Coronado Floral Association for the theme of the magazine, Denise was inspired by the the season of spring and a garden of boxes.

“This time of year is the season of eggs, baby rabbits, seeds sprouting and everything waking up from its long winter sleep,” said Denise.

She encourages readers to find some containers to recreate the growth of spring.

She found six small, individual boxes, painted them and glued them together.

As for what she put into each one, Denise explains, “Eggshells are a wonderful container for a little soil and a seed, small plant or bulb. You can use a small wooden crate or box and put something in each section that reminds you of spring. Each section containing something that can later go into your garden and continue growing.”

Denise added a starfish, a memento of our beaches, a gardener’s frog, a bulb, an air plant and two small plants. The label “le printemps” is the French word for spring. Its literal translation is first season. Enjoy your first season.

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What’s in Season?

Party on Your Plate - Salad!

Everyone knows what a salad is - small pieces of food, most often a mixture of vegetables and fruits either artfully arranged or tossed. Salads offer the chance to create different combinations and experiment with colors and taste. They can be bountiful and beautiful. Buy salads prepackaged or make your own.

Anyway you put it together, salads are so beneficial with many health benefits.

Fresh, raw veggies and fruits have vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants. Add protein and you add amino acids. Avocado and nuts help absorb lycopene and lutein. If eaten before a meal, salad can make you feel fuller, and help in weight loss.

There are five types of salad: green or garden filled with leafy vegetables as a base; fruit, a mixture of fruits; rice or pasta with vegetables or fruits added in; dinner salad with a protein base of meat, egg or cheese; and dessert, generally with a gelatin or whipped cream base.

A note on salad dressings: beware the creamy versions if you are counting calories. A simple drizzling of olive oil is one of the healthiest dressings around. Just add herbs, garlic, basil, lemon juice or parsley for flavor.

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YESTERYEAR

The Golden Age of Coronado Polo

by Kimball Worcester, Coronado Historical Association Volunteer

The first two decades of the 20th century saw a blossoming in Coronado of visitors, residents, style, and abundance. A year after the Coronado Library was established in 1890, President Harrison visited the island, breakfasting at the Hotel Del. The dream of the Coronado Beach Company and its investors was coming to fruition, the Hotel Del well established and celebrated, residences built and inhabited.

Culture and vibrancy were well on the rise in 1905 when J.D. Spreckels commissioned the Coronado Country Club to be built and the polo field laid out on the southern side of the Spanish Bight. The lure of the luxury sport of polo in the gentle warmth of Coronado proved strong.

The Country Club offered a racetrack, tennis courts, golf links, a noteworthy grandstand, and an exclusive club for members. The initial membership fee was $25, with annual dues of $10.

Only the grandstand and grounds were open to the public. By 1913, the reputation of Coronado on the international polo circuit was such that a laudatory essay by the journalist-explorer Lewis Ransome Freeman was published in “Sunset, The Pacific Monthly” of February 1913, a copy of which is held in the Coronado Historical Association (CHA) collection.

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Charlie Chaplin, far left, and Maj. Colin Ross, far right, c. 1921 [CHA] Freeman was a famous war correspondent and adventurer, whose praise of Coronado for polo ran along these lines: “…a chestful of the ozone that blows across the Coronado polo field from the Pacific on an afternoon in February is champagne, an inspiration, and makes you realize that you are getting more out of yourself and your ponies than you ever suspected was there to get out.”

He describes the players from around the world who hold Coronado in the highest esteem for their sport, declaring that …”not a one of the old polo ‘Meccas of the Faithful’… has gained the hold on the affections of so many players of the game as has Coronado…”

The essay includes a dramatic photo of a Coronado match taken by Harold A. Taylor, many of whose photos of polo spectators of the time are held in the CHA collection. His signature can be seen at the bottom right.

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Before match play was discontinued in 1926, both professional players and notable amateurs rode the field, including Charlie Chaplin, yet another Englishman who made good in America.

In 1907 Maj. Colin G. Ross of the Canadian Army (having established the High River Polo Club in Alberta, Canada) turned up in Coronado and was tasked by the Spreckels company to “take charge of polo activities at Coronado.” The season extended from Jan. 1 to March 20, and Coronado held primacy as “… the winter polo resort of America.”

Thirty years later, Ross published an article in the “Coronado Journal” describing those golden pre-World War I years of Coronado polo and decrying the subsequent loss of luster. “Coronado Country Club had three perfect polo fields at that time—1910…Today, those fields…have been made into very bad golf holes.”

Ross died in Coronado in December 1938 at his home on First Street. The heyday of Coronado polo had passed, along with its champion. In the coming years, the Navy and the demand for housing in postwar Coronado would subsume the southern shore of the Spanish Bight along with the bight itself and all of North Island. The stylish era of the polo pony went the way of the orange trees and streetcars on Orange Avenue.

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FINANCIAL

By Chaz Fahrner, CFP®, EA Associate Wealth Advisor at the Gensler Group

of compounding interest. Debt is often necessary if you are

Spring is a time of new beginnings, colorful flowers, longer days

if you carry a high interest credit card balance from month to

and the annual deep cleaning of forgotten corners in your home.

month or take out high interest loans, debt can cripple you.

Since you are stuck at home, and I am guessing every inch of your

There are a few ways to approach paying off debt, but my

“shelter” is sanitized by now, why not take this opportunity to

favorite is to stack your debts from smallest to largest and

clean up your finances, too. Start spring with more than a clean

tackle the smallest debt first. This will give you some wins

house, start with clean debt, dust-free monthly subscriptions, less

with the smaller debts and motivate you to continue the

paper and less accounts to keep track of. Follow these four tips to

process of getting everything paid off.

taking out student loans or you are buying a home. However,

help tackle the financial grime and feel the financial cleanliness.

Dust Off Those Unused Monthly Subscriptions Mop Up Your Debt and Pour It Down the Drain

About 10 years ago, I made the decision to stop my expensive

Debt can be the biggest source of stress in our lives and cause

cable subscription and start using an inexpensive online

the most struggles to future financial well-being. The reason

service. I saved about 90 percent of what I was spending

paying off debt can be so powerful is because it may allow you

and never looked back. Today’s business trend is to peg

to focus those saved dollars on investing where you are earning

customers to a monthly subscription whether they use the

interest instead of paying interest, which can start the process

service or not. On many occasions, I have helped clients

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with their spending and while doing so, discovered clients

benefits to consolidating investment accounts: easier account

paying for subscriptions that were forgotten. The best way to

monitoring, one investment approach with complete oversight,

identify these unused subscriptions is to look at the details

and simplification when your required minimum distributions

of your credit card or debit card statements to make sure

start for retirement accounts.

every charge is accurate. Investigate anything that does not look familiar. You may be paying too much or not using some

The joy of finding loose change in your couch cushion is a

subscriptions and services listed on your statements. Examples

rewarding byproduct of spring cleaning your home, but the

to look at may include fitness gyms, Netflix, Amazon, Costco,

payoff from your financial spring clean may be much more

credit monitoring services, Dollar Shave Club, Blue Apron,

lucrative. You can save on interest by paying off debt and

newspapers, magazines and so on.

potentially gain money from cancelling unused subscriptions and services. You can potentially gain peace of mind by shredding

Vacuum Up Your Financial Paper Statements and Go

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If you receive financial paper statements, spring time can be

by going paperless and consolidating accounts. Not only will

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Page 3: Layout by Denise Lyon Photo by Daniel Toennies

The Wonder of Coronado Page 9

Belinda Jones, Aurthor, Communications & Marketing Coordinator Coronado Chamber of Commerce Photos by Belinda Jones

Local Artist Helps Bring Attention to a Good Cause Page 17 Ellen Breitner, feature contributor and Soroptimist

Photos courtesy Kathleen McCabe

At Home: True Colors Page 22

Denise Lyon, food writer, stylist, columnist and designer for Coronado Magazine Photos by Daniel Toennies

Confessions of a Perfect(ish) Mom: Like Mother, Like Daughter Page 31 Hattie Foote, columnist, photographer, mother of two

Photos by Hattie Foote

Operation Homelife: Creating Connections, Creatively Page 38

Krysta Murray, columnist, military spouse and mom

Lessons Learned Along the Camino de Santiago Page 42

Kris Grant, writer, photographer

Yesteryear: The Golden Age of Coronado Polo Page 52 Kimball Worcester, Coronado Historical Association Volunteer

Photos courtesy of the Coronado Historical Association

Finance: Spring Clean Your Finances Page 56

Chaz Fahrner, Registered Representative Wealth Advisor, LPL Financial member FINRA/SIPC. The Gensler Group Wealth Management Solutions, 619-554-1300.

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