palis Fes Estates one block from the ocean we were welcomed to that community
Palistas that hate Lula. And you know what they told me? They said, "Oh my god, if Lula wins, it's going to be a
it in California in palis Fes by ourselves but um when I was writing this book my
they were building palisades of wood to protect themselves, they were burning log fires to keep away the wolves, and so forth, you could say early American explorers could
We met Nell in Palisades Park. The day that we met her was a sunny, warm day and she was eating an ice cream cone in her wheelchair and motating forward by pushing her feet along
not the Palisades and that's not Brentwood and this part of Santa Monica is not the same as South Santa Monica and it's not the same as north of
And this is a picture of the Palisades, right across from New York City.
We met Carol Ann in Palisades Park. You may have seen her there. I think she's still there and we've seen her numerous times and spoken to her more than one time.
uh who lives in the Palisades and uh the other two of the others Nancy and margerie Schwarz we'd all work together
This thing here where the hand this is a Palisade slot.
Just recently at Ralph's Market in the Palisades, a woman turned to her son and said, what's your problem?
We started talking because she was sitting on a bench in Palisades Park and there was a little pair of pink moccasins next to her and she asked me if I wanted them. She hated
And then a few weeks later we were walking in Palisades Park and there is Star again, a totally different person, practically flying through the park, flying with joy with
he's now back to being uh being a firefighter and lives in Palisades and they you know he's back to being
is itself in a way that is unique to Santa Monica so the Palisades people and
election and when you talk to Brazilians they said oh my god you know sa Palistas
We felt the weight of that total absence of sound when we arrived in the devastated neighborhoods of Altadena and the Palisades
We found out that she's actually local, lives in the Pacific Palisades, and she leads groups.
so being 14,000 feet can still be quite an accomplishment, so I recommend North Palisade right, good mountain.
So they have found that and there are receptors in the tendons of the eye, called palisade
And then we have Erma and the other woman and then down the way she was sleeping in Palisades Park. She appears to be wearing a blanket made into a jacket and the arms
and getting outside the city and biking in one of places I like to go is in the Palisades which is across from the
Park which um hopefully you if you have not been to on the edge of the Pacific Palisades you should go to and do the
I took a bus ride an hour each way to and from school from Inglewood, California to Pacific Palisades.
I don't know if you guys know Southern California, but each way, to Brentwood Elementary, then to Paul Revere Middle School, then to Pacific Palisades High School, sometimes going
And actually, the mountain that he talked about, even though it's 14,000 feet, North Palisade is one of the more challenging and beautiful mountains I've ever climbed,
You can see those women there. The one on the far left believe it or not, the one who was crying out, we saw in Palisades Park. She wasn't making any noise. Can you imagine?
And the last time we saw her, she was sitting on the cannon, you know the old Civil War cannon in Palisades Park, with a cordless microphone in her hand. Not cordless fancy
the water. So, everybody knew something had to give, and a lot of people, a lot of locals braved the weather that day, braved rain and sleet to stand on the palisades and watch