Monday, November 10, 2008

Cal Center




It is not easy to find the right road to the Geographic Center of California. Six-tenths of a mile before arrival is a sign informing you you are close. Once you find the spot, well, you know exactly where you are: right in the middle, east-west and north-south of pleasant confusion. Stairs circle the center, making it as easy a circumambulation as you are likely to find anywhere. Buddhists call it "pradakshina," or, going around an important object clockwise to make "white magic." Doing it Buddhist style is, however, just a suggestion. Just remember that re-charging the state's magic wand is never a bad idea.

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