JettyGirl: A one million
dollar check arrives in your mailbox with a
note that reads, "Half of this amount is
yours and the other half is to benefit the world
around you." How would you spend the money?
Heather Tiddens:
Set up and fund a yoga/health program for folks
with diabetes: exercise, nutrition, counseling,
yoga classes and ceremony ...an integrated program
to shift us off of the "American lifestyle"
of fast food and short-term symptom relief and
into a holistic approach to deep mental, physical
and spiritual health.
JG: Describe the best surfboard
you've ever ridden and why it was special to
you.
Heather: Two boards:
my first new board, an Al Merrick ('79?) - a
beautiful 6'8" round pin single fin with
channels and a bitchen' airbrush. Sure wish
I held onto that one. Second board is the most
recent - Kelly's C.I. Wizard Sleeve: a 5'8"
4-fin round pin. Got it last month and it's
the best Rincon board I've ever had.
JG: If you could travel
back to any time in history and hang with one
person while they go about their daily activities,
who would it be and why?
Heather: Back to
'63 when the house we live in was built: hang
out with the electrician so I could find out
why the heck the electrical is so screwed up.
JG: For thirty days you're
stuck on a desert island with one book, one
song, one surf movie and one snack food. Which
ones would you choose?
Heather: Blank
pages to write my own book. Song, my own voice.
Surf movie: watching the waves peel around the
reef of the island (or The Women and the
Waves - hee hee). Organic McCowen farm
picked apples from Connecticut.
JG: What is your best surf-related
memory of 2009?
Heather: Black
Friday from 6 - 7:20am in the Cove. Solid, pumping,
very uncrowded.
