Why Orinda California?
How being flabbergasted inspires.
2 min readNov 20, 2023
Two pricey suburbs are lined up behind the Oakland/Berkeley hills in San Francisco’s East Bay. I once heard a standup comedian riff, Orinda is the Spanish word for ‘no black people’… and Lafayette is the French word.
In the 1970s my parents bought a house in the larger, third suburb in line; which was working class until the 80s boon inflated…
