Today is just the sort of day – a cloudless sky, crisp breezes, wee whitecaps, metallic sunlight reflecting almost painfully – when you’d have called.

You’d have asked me – if I had time – if I’d like to join you for a walk, maybe on our blufftop boardwalk; or, if I had time, to take a little drive down to the pier. We’d watch the panorama: families and lovers, surfers, dogs – all tasting/testing briny gusts.

We made that time. We’d talk of nothings, just Appreciation: Time and Beauty and Creation. We had it all there by the sea, didn’t we?

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