Reasons home is better than our trips, ranked in order of importance. !. Because there are no pit toilets at home and I don’t want to use pit toilets because I might fall in.

This is a thing I made. Please be careful with it.

Walking on a beach is not a place you expect to get sideswiped with feeling. If anything, whatever comes up does so gradually. But as I’m picking my way through sand scattered with shells, crab bits, and kelp parts, a piece of driftwood with a story appears beside me.

“Friends of the Moment,” she said as we were wrapping up a twenty minute conversation, “that’s what we are now.”