What is Los Angeles? “The California dream,” whatever that is to you. To me it’s a warm sunshiny day at the beach, a turquoise glassy ocean with perfectly shaped waves to surf on. Palm trees, sand, dolphins, and plenty of time to relax and love life. Southern California has been the light of my life, but as they say, you can only know light if you've known the dark. My darkness was Northern California, my original hometown. The San Francisco Bay Area, where it rained so much,