She claims the earthquake as her very own. When the earthquake hit I was on Highway 17 on my way to a gig. The asphalt split open in front of me and the impact popped both front tires. I was in the auto-repair business at that time. When I returned to work four days later and found myself under some grimy old car picking up where I left off, I said, At any moment the earth can split open, or these walls can tumble down.
Life is too fragile to spend doing something disagreeable.
The following week I put that business up for sale and by January it was sold. I took the proceeds and built a guitar shop. I dug into the personally satisfying endeavor of building and playing classical guitar. Besides the birth of my kids, that was the best thing that ever happened to me. We had just come back from a walk.