Freddy Boshe is an actor, an artist, a performer and an all around entertaining individual.  I ran into him one day at the Barnes and Noble on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica.  It was an afternoon of serendipity, in every conceivable way.

I took the afternoon off and decided to take care of myself and see where the wind blew me.  I started off with a great workout at the Santa Monica stairs and then followed my intuition to spend some time reading magazines at the corner book store.  That Barnes and Noble has a great set up for chilling out for hours, if one so pleases.  Usually, when I go there to flip through the latest glossies, I most often head straight for the fashion or architecture sections.  I like to get visually inspired in that way when I'm working on something new for my green jewelry designs.  

But this time, I was immediately drawn to the Psychology Today magazine which had a cover title "Serendipity: Seize the Power of Chance".  The cover art had a big green clover on it made up of all kinds of different green objects - green houses, green phones, green scissors, green jewelry and a bunch of other green stuff - so that naturally caught my attention, since I'm always on the lookout for the latest articles on being green.

My afternoon was going quite nicely, and I really felt "in the flow", so this seemed like the perfect article to pick up.  When I looked for a place to sit down, though, there was only one spot available.  The place was packed and the only opening that I could find was right next to a very attractive gentleman.  I almost felt like I shouldn't sit there, as not to seem obvious that I thought he was cute, but I literally had no other choice.

Once I sat down, I watched a series of serendipitous events begin to unfold.  First, the attractive man that I sat down next to immediately introduced himself and asked me what I was reading. His forwardness was unexpected, because most people don't talk to each other in a public setting like that.  Second, he immediately asked me what I did for a living.  So, I mentioned that I did a number of things, but that I designed green jewelry and was a green builder for quite a long while.  Next, he asked me what I really thought about people, buildings, and things claiming to be "green", because he was on the fence about the validity of the subject.  I explained that I did feel that great strides were being made in a greener direction, but that I feel that it's still definitely a work in progress for all of us.

He appreciated my answer and went on to share his thoughts.  He mentioned that he had just heard about a house being re-purposed and redesigned from a Boeing 747 and had been flown in to be reassembled in the remote hills of Malibu.  Right then, the gentleman next to us said that he saw it being flown in with his own eyes and couldn't believe the sight.  Next, a third gentleman standing in front of us chimed in and said that he had just interviewed the green architect of the project for an article he was working on.  Then, given the number of serendipitous events in the moment, I looked to my right and saw a fourth gentleman reading a magazine about airplanes.  So, I took the chance to mention that I had just picked up a magazine, by chance, about serendipity.  We all laughed, and then Freddy and I went on to discuss why he felt that this airplane home wasn't really green.  He felt that since it had been flown in from so far away, goodness knew how many thousands of gallons of fuel were used to erect the "green" home. 

I had to agree with him, but I explained that as a person who has been working in the green field for decades, whether in green building, Green Hollywood, green fashion or green jewelry, I felt that we are making significant strides in the right direction and experiments like the Boeing 747 home are all a part of our learning process.  He appreciated my sentiment and then unexpectedly blurted out that we should go to the Getty Museum to look at art.  It turned out that he is as addicted to the design world as I am and lives and breathes art for both a living and a hobby.

The Getty ended up being closed by that time, so we decided to take the three-block walk to the beach while we chatted a little more.  I came to learn that he was a performance artist, a painter and an actor, as well as a green skeptic, and I appreciated all of those qualities about him.  I very much enjoyed finishing our serendipitous conversation and found it amusing that the whole thing started with a of feeling of being in the flow and the cool looking cover of a green-colored magazine.  

Check out the Broadway show that Freddie Bosche was a lead performer in, it's pretty phenomenal!  Fuerza Bruta