Yesterday I ran 2.23mi(1) in memory of #AhmaudArbery, who would have turned 26. He was shot on 2/23 for jogging while black. The video is horrifying. #BlackLivesMatter because how is this still happening in 2020. #IRunWithMaud
This weekend #RunWithMaud in solidarity. If you’re in SF, you can start at Haight & Ashbury, run up Ashbury until it merges with Clayton, turn up Twin Peaks Boulevard, and turn around a bit after the first major turn, before the hairpin turn(2,3), running back down to Haight & Ashbury to complete 2.23 miles.
↳ In reply to issue 6103 of GitHub project “browser-compat-data”From a strict interpretation, in the W3C at least, a specification must be at least a publicly published Working Draft (WD) by an active Working Group (WG) to be on an official "standards track", and thus that should be our condition for explicitly labeling a technology in a W3C document as "standards track".
At a minimum a specification must be accepted into a WG’s charter, and not just as a NOTE, in order to qualify to be standards track. However it’s not actually on that track (and citable as such) per se until the WG has agreed to publish it publicly as a WD.
By at least a WD, I’m explicitly saying yes it can also obviously be a Candidate Recommendation (CR), Proposed Recommendation (PR), or Recommedation (REC, or edited, or amended). If it’s an Obsolete Recommendation we should use the "Obsolete" label.
If it’s only in an Editor’s Draft or a WD (before a CR), that would be reasonable to label as "Experimental", as anything that’s not yet in a CR can "Expect behavior to change in the future."
If a document is for example only developed in a Community Group (CG) such as WICG, it is not standards track (CGs cannot make standards), and thus we should explicitly label any technologies there as "Non-standard", until such document makes its way into a WG and the WG publishes it as a WD, therefore publicly signaling that the WG has agreed to advance it onto the standards track.
For IETF and other orgs, I’ll let others chime in about what state a document must be in to transition between "non-standard" and "experimental" and "standards track", or "obsolete".
“The indie web” was a name given to the collective us that used and still uses our domains for our actively independent web presence, a practice Blogger FTP helped enable for many years, for many people. Our sites worked (were at least viewable) without requiring (truly independent of) another web site or service being actively up & running.
Blogger FTP was a nice-to-have, even if/when it was down, your site and permalinks were still browsable, and you could still manually FTP and edit your site, your blog, on whatever generic web hosting service you were using. You could migrate your blog by FTPing your static storage files from one web host to another. Without any database export/import/(re)configuration.
Subsequently of course https://indiewebcamp.com/ was founded, eventually (and currently) https://indieweb.org/, recognizing a pre-existing practice by naming it and giving it a community focus. A community to discover & find each other, to actively collaborate, building on each other’s ideas & building blocks, evolving our sites, innovating the practical peer-to-peer web with a plurality of approaches, designs, interoperable implementations, and sustainable solutions.
🏙🌳 March 27th, SF distancing day eleven. Midday run/walk up to Corona Heights for another clear view of downtowns, San Francisco and Oakland(1). Later that afternoon a trip to Cole Hardware, limited to 15 store customers at a time(2). Inside, purchase limits on bleach, soap, paper towels, and gloves(3).
👥📰 March 26th, SF distancing day ten. Longer line to get into Haight Street Market(1). The newspapers reported on the $2 trillion stimulus(2,3). The New York Times in particular noted that states have begun discouraging visitors from other states, or requiring them to stay in quarantine, e.g. for 14 days.
☁️🌊 March 25th, SF distancing day nine. Spent nearly the whole day inside, drove to the beach (when we were still allowed to) as the sun set. Made it just as the sun sank into the horizon, just an orange dot filtered by the clouds(2). Ocean Beach was nearly empty.
As I approached the shore, I saw numerous small dark shapes in motion where the waves lapped the sand. When I got closer I realized they were birds, hundreds of them(3). I’ve never seen so many birds flocking together at the beach. Something in the waves made them briefly take flight(4).
The wind had really picked up. Orange glow on the horizon where the sun had been, the wind strong enough to blow ripples in the millimeters deep water on the sand(5). Walking back, the wind paused for a moment, long enough for the wet sand to sit still and reflect the sky(1).
For a #NewPossible future, cc: @LondonBreed can SF do more of this?
* Immediately pass a coronavirus relief package now that provides emergency funding assistance to cover expenses to massively test the population in the millions and provide emergency food and shelter to all homeless and poor. * Provide a protection and testing plan for incarcerated people while in custody and upon release. * Expand SNAP and unemployment for the duration of the pandemic. * Immediately legislate fully paid sick leave for all workers. * Implement an immediate moratorium on evictions and utility shut-offs. * Emergency funding for family and community-based childcare for families who cannot work from home.
👥📰 March 24th, SF distancing day eight. New requirements announced by the city have been implemented, like limiting the number of people allowed into grocery stores, one in one out. Line down the block to get into Haight Street Market, people in line stayed about six feet apart even without explicit markings(1).
The day’s newspapers showed progress in some areas like testing(2), critiques (New York’s density enabled the virus, yet why haven’t denser cities worldwide had the same problems?), and premature considerations of lifting restrictions by the president and wall street executives(3,4).
🌸 March 23rd, SF distancing day seven. Had a nice afternoon run to the Conservatory of Flowers and back. The flowers in the gardens out front were in full bloom. One week of sheltering in place.
🌳🌇 March 22nd, SF distancing day six. Later run than usual, made it to Kezar Stadium just after sunset on a mostly clear day(1). That morning I picked up brunch to go from Zazie, including a complimentary bag of their buttermilk pancake mix(2). It had been a week since I’d celebrated my birthday there, so much had changed already.
“This virus has worked liked an MRI or like an X-Ray on societies & countries and exposed their barebones and exposed ... almost in the same way that it seems to prey on people with other illnessess, people with co-morbidities, it is doing the same with societies, it is expanding & amplifying all the weaknesses, all the injustices, all the racisms, all the castisms.”
“Right now what's happening is that national authoritarianism is colluding with international disaster capitalism and data gatherers and they are preparing another world for us.”
“For me writing is thinking. I write to think. It is almost like talking to myself. Sometimes the only reason I write is in order to not lose my sanity.”
“A lot of people think that democracy equals elections. And this is the stupidest thing that has happened to us. Elections are just one part of it. Sometimes I just look at it as vote for the enemy that you want to have.”
↳ In reply to @solarpunk_girl’s tweet@solarpunk_girl #moralimaginations are refreshing like our cleaner air, encouraging us to look farther, to distant views suddenly visible, and listen to new sounds, voices, ideas we can hear as the noises of broken systems subside. Thank you
🌁⛰🏙📰 March 21st, SF distancing day five. Ran up to Twin Peaks, North Peak, and South Peak for a clear view of Sutro tower, Mount Tam, the Golden Gate Bridge, downtown San Francisco, East Bay hills, and tiny container ships & the Grand Princess still idling on the bay(1).
There’s a third mini peak south of the two official Twin Peaks, with a beautiful field of poppies(2). At the time I’d stopped to admire the poppies on the inside of the hairpin turn up to Twin Peaks(tantek.com/t55h1). Afterwards a post-run stop at Haight Street Market for a coffee.
The day’s weekend Wall Street Journal had a photo of a nearly empty Times Square, a scene previously only imagined in disaster movies (and Vanilla Sky). The headline article described how 1 in 5 Americans were now under orders to limit their outside activity(3).
⛰🌁 March 20th, SF distancing day four. Ran up to Tank Hill for the clearest views. Distant sights like Mount Tam and the Marin Headlands had sharper outlines, and crisper more colorful features. Even the Golden Gate Bridge seemed to shine a brighter reddish orange(1).
To the Southeast, a clear view of the bay itself, including tiny tankers, cargo ships, and the white outline of the idling Grand Princess cruise ship parked in the bay, behind bright views of city neighborhoods(2). Only a couple of others were up at Tank Hill park that day, observing distancing requirements in addition to the views(3).
Stopped by Haight Street Market for more supplies, noticed that they had suspended all self-serve food options(4), including their delicious soups(5). The cafe’s tip jar choices reflected reactions to only a few days of sheltering at home(6).
The day before (Thursday) the Governor of California had essentially replicated Monday’s San Francisco shelter-in-place order for the entire state, the first state to do so, which the Chronicle reported in large type(7).
The New York Times exclaimed in all caps: DOCTORS SOUND ALARM AS A NATION STRUGGLES above a map of the United States, with numbers of cases and proportionate red circles(8). Later that day, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York states issued their own shelter-in-place orders.
It would take two more weeks for most other states to follow suit.
March 19th, SF distancing day three. First run since my 50-miler. I had rested my legs, only brief walks for a few days, then longer walks, up & down hills. When that felt completely fine, I decided to try an easy run. First up to Buena Vista Park where the poppies were in full bloom(1), then over to Corona Heights Park, where the clean air provided very clear views of downtown San Francisco, and across the bay to Oakland too(2)!
Finished my run with a coffee from Haight Street Market, where they had just changed store hours to close earlier for sanitizing, and limited the first hour of opening to those 60+ years old and Instacart workers(3).
Scanning the newspapers while waiting for my coffee, the day’s headlines captured only a few concerns & fears(4,5,6).
As a visual palate cleanser after those headlines, here’s my almond latte in a paper cup(7), since they stopped serving in reusable cups two days ago (tantek.com/t5661).
⛰🌁 March 17th, SF distancing day one. Cleaner skies made for an exceptionally clear view from the top of Buena Vista Park. Mount Tam, Marin Headlands, and the most red-orange I’ve seen the Golden Gate Bridge(1) from that spot. The purple flowers at the summit looked particularly brilliant(2).
Down on Haight street, several stores had closed per the sheltering orders, and posted signs accordingly(3,4,5,6).
Haight Street Market was still open, including the cafe. However, they had stopped serving coffee in personal cups(7).
🌅 Sunset at Ocean Beach on March 16th, the evening before distancing in San Francisco. A surfer calls it a night(1). A minute later, clear dark blue to yellow and orange gradient on the horizon, reflected by the wet sand(2 click the image for wallpaper original)
Earlier that day (a Monday) the mayor had held a press conference to announce the shelter-in-place guidelines. Near the end she literally said: “This is not the time to panic.” https://youtube.com/watch?t=3165&v=_VwHUvVyO_M Which of course is exactly what authority figures say in natural disaster movies, right before everything goes horribly wrong. I went to the store and stocked up on groceries for 2-3 weeks, just in case.
Drove to the beach and watched the sun set, not knowing when that too might be forbidden.
↳ In reply to @teleject’s tweet@ari4nne I’m so sorry to hear of @teleject’s passing. Only found out this morning :( He contributed so much to our community, and was kind & caring to everyone. Condolences & love. <3
Four weeks ago today I celebrated a birthday with friends at Zazie, one of my favorite restaurants. Happy, grateful, and feeling pretty good after running so many miles the day before.
It was the night before San Francisco ordered everyone to distance and shelter-in-place. I had a feeling that evening might be the last chance to see friends in a group, that Friday the mayor had forbidden gatherings of 100 people, after the governor forbade gatherings of 250 the day before.
Four weeks ago and it feels like it’s been months. So many changes, so many things have broken down, so much tragedy from so many things that have been revealed for how broken they already were.
That night though, I was happy to see friends and celebrate another trip around the sun (as well as a 50 mile trip around Marin). Thanks friends, thanks Zazie for taking such good care of us (and all the precautions), and thanks Erika for making the night happen. 📷 @erikawxyz
Been ordering takeout from Zazie once a week since. They’re a great place that treats their employees well (three of them are co-owners!). If you’re in SF, consider ordering takeout from them as well: https://www.zaziesf.com/
🐝🌳🏙⛰ Last day of March: spring flowers blooming at Buena Vista Park(1). Find the bee?
Ran to Corona Heights afterwards, nearly empty except for the 6 feet apart warning signs(2). Clear & crisp view of downtown, despite thick clouds overhead(3).
After a quick loop back and around Mount Olympus, ran across to Twin Peaks, where the barricade I saw the day before had a new CLOSED sign placed in front of it(4), detailing which activities were still allowed inside: run, bike, hike, enjoy nature(5).
Ran up to the top and found pal Courtney! I took a physically distancing selfie of us at the North peak(6) before we ran (always keeping our distance) up & over the South peak, mini third peak, and back down to Clayton street where we parted ways.
Decided to check out Kezar track, which also had a new warning sign at the entrance(7) with a different set of specific messages(8).
The track itself was nearly empty, calm & quiet under an overcast sky(9).
Meetable clusters events in the same month under a common heading for that month,
and shows events in date order, regardless of location.
Events on the same day with a specified start time should be sorted by
the UTC value of their time, so they’re listed in absolute temporal order.
For example, the
events on 2020-04-08
are almost sorted by UTC time order, however,
Online HWC Karlsruhe Europe/Berlin 18:30 (UTC 16:30) should be listed before
Online HWC Europe/London 18:00 (UTC 17:00),
whereas currently the London event is listed first.
Listing events in absolute temporal order is particularly useful when the majority
(or all) of the events are online and thus potentially available and open to
people outside the specified time zone of the event, especially an adjacent time zone.
☁️🌃🏙⚠️🌲☀️🌳 Late run this past Sunday, the sun had set by the time I reached Twin Peaks(3) and kept running south to the North Peak(2). In anticipation I had worn my headlamp, turning it on for the return run after running past the South Peak and mini third peak after that. First time seeing the city at night from the North Peak(1), a view only for those willing to run/hike trails in darkness.
Earlier that day (or perhaps Saturday) the north side of Twin Peaks Boulevard was blocked off to cars with a gate, allowing only foot traffic, and a few intrepid bicyclists who had to swerve around it into the dirt on the side(4).
Started Sunday’s run with an ascent to the top of Buena Vista Park for sunset views filtered through foliage(5,6).
☁️🏙 ~1k' in 3.5 miles. Pretty clouds over the city, during my mid-day run up to and across the Twin Peaks hills and back. As of yesterday closed to car traffic, only saw runners and a few bicylists. The air just keeps getting clearer and clearer.
🌃🏃🏻♂️ Two weeks ago to the hour I was finishing 50 miles in the rain. Indoors all day Saturday, decided it was time for a quick run in the dark on empty streets(2), remembering that #NoFear(1) day & night on the trails. Started sprinkling near the end.
"We [social movements] have to be able to find each other in different ways. It can’t all be dependent on corporate information services that can be shutdown." @NaomiAKlein
RSVP yes to: an IndieWeb eventwent to tonight’s ONLINE: Homebrew Website Club West Coast where we discussed how we could improve https://indiewebify.me/ including helping people who just want to Get Started: https://indieweb.org/start using a service or CMS without worrying about code.
Read this by my pal Erika RN: Make a difference (save lives) in the #CoronaVirus #Covid19 crisis https://www.facebook.com/erikalwhite/posts/10163301256025010 E.g. * Donate unused PPE(N95…) to local healthcare * Wash hands; 🚫🤭 * Stay 🏠 * Self care, avoid ER * Check sources * Be kind
🌌🌧 It was a dark and stormy morning. The start of a long day, too long for one race report post. I got up, put on my running outfit I’d set out the night before (https://tantek.com/t55_3), snacked on a dark chocolate mocha Clif bar, and ran up to the intersection where Cori was coming to pick us up. Stephanie joined minutes later. It was only sprinkling, yet the cold was already biting, despite us wearing all the layers we brought.
Cori picked us up, last two seats in her car, we huddled together for warmth and cracked jokes to lighten the mood and lift our spirits. We arrived at the Rodeo Beach parking lot just before 06:30, already brimming with activity(2 📷 Bryan). We weren’t the only #MarinUltraChallenge runners determined to run our races despite the cancellation. The rain picked up.
I’ve run in the rain before, many years @Nov_Project_SF & a few other cities, and a year ago on my double Tam run. Separately I’ve run in the dark, also at #NPSF, usually early gang, and on so many Tam sunrise runs. This was the first time I’d run in the dark, in the rain, on trails. Carpooling and starting together helped, knowing we’d all be out there facing the elements, finding our way.
After quick bathroom trips we found each other and @BryanTing under a green umbrella(3,4), assembled for a group photo(5 📷 Bryan), unbeknownst to us mere days before social distancing orders would forbid it. We composed ourselves in the now pouring rain, and started our run(6 📷 Bryan) crossing the Rodeo Beach gates(1 📷 Bryan), up the Coastal Trail.
🌸🏙☁️ A week ago today I ran my first 50-miler (https://tantek.com/t55b1), the hardest thing I’ve done. I knew I’d need 2 weeks of physical recovery. It’s also taken a week of mental recovery to start feeling like myself again.
The shelter-in-place and various cancellations have helped in some ways, provided challenges in others. I chose to sit still, breathe, do some yoga, eat deliberately, go for a walk every day, sleep as needed. Show up to commitments, keep in touch with close ones, love within my capacity to do so, toward others within their capacity to receive.
The past few days I’ve gone on easy runs too, culminating today in a run up to Twin Peaks. I stopped for a ground level view, appreciating immediate beauty(photo) before running up and over the peaks and returning back down the hill.
🌧⛰🏃🏻♂️ I did it. 50 miles of #running #MUC50 trails with 11000+ feet of climbing.
🌊🌧⛰🌄⛰⛰⛰🌧⛰🌧⛰🌊 Started on a dark & stormy Saturday morning with @Nov_Project_SF 50k runners at Rodeo Beach, finished with pal @BryanTing on a dark & stormy night, after he crewed me the whole day and ran me in the last rainy mile.
Much harder & longer than expected. Thanks to #NPSF friends that showed up and ran with for several segments, and so much #NovemberProject community support.
#Racekit prepared for #MUC50 race. Yesterday CA governor Newsom banned 250+ people gatherings which forced cancellation of the Marin Ultra Challenge. With training and support of friends, I’m running the 50 mile course anyway. The cancellation email even said: “we encourage you to get outside and run the course as a virtual race”
My #NPSF friends running the 50k course and I will start together and eventually I’ll fork off for the 50 mile course. Approximate schedule if you’d like to come run together for a bit!
06:30 Rodeo Beach start 11:30 Cardiac Hill ~20 miles 12:45 Stinson Beach ~23 miles 14:30 Cardiac Hill ~30 miles 18:00 Muir Beach / Pelican Inn ~41 miles 19:15 Tennessee Valley Parking Lot ~46 miles 20:30 Rodeo Beach finish ~50 miles
Yesterday a quick morning trip up to Twin Peaks, to see clear skies above San Francisco, with a distant fogged in East Bay(1). Just before they closed I bicycled to the DMV to renew my license, very helpful employees, no lines, nearly empty(2).
Drove to Sports Basement to pick up my #MUC50 things, and resupply some Nuun and Picky Bars. Stopped by Crissy field where I finished my last ultra(3), the #ECSCA 50k and half marathon the next day, as a reminder of what I did mere months ago.
🏙🌴 Yesterday’s birthday started in extra darkness, from a combination of Daylight Savings Time and the @Nov_Project_SF early gang start time; the Alta Plaza park steps lit mostly by my headlamp(2). Only near the end of the normal time workout did the sky start to light up, the usual dawn color gradients obscured by clouds, leaving only hints of the beautiful blue yellow orange sky(3).
Even after the workout the sun was nowhere to be seen, only indirectly present through a gradually brightening sky, and a few distant streaks of orange on the horizon(1).
I brought my own lights, a personal tradition when my birthday falls on an #NPSF workout day. Grateful for this community and the friends I’ve made here.
We had breakfast at Jane on Fillmore after, I tried their blueberry creamcheese brioche in addition to my usual egg-white breakfast sandwich with extra cheddar.
Took the day off from work as we are encouraged to do. Spent it mostly quietly, explored the new Devil’s Teeth Bakery which was open til 19:00 yet stopped making breakfast sandwiches at 15:45. Ran a few errands, picking up supplies, tools, and sushi for dinner.
Went home, called my parents, caught up and reflected on many things. Ate some soup and my sushi dinner, social distancing in preparation for my race this weekend.
↳ In reply to @ShaneHudson’s tweet@ShaneHudson@zeldman thank you Shane! That photo, such younger simpler times at a conference not so far away. Where everybody knows your (domain) name.
↳ In reply to @zeldman’s tweet@zeldman 😊 thank you dear friend. Honored working with you for so many years to make a difference. Here’s to many more 🤗 💪🏻✊🏻 And chasing you on @SwarmApp 🙃
🏙🌴🌴 Monday @Nov_Project_SF after the daylight savings time change started in darkness again, with the sky slowly lighting up, backlightning the palm trees.
☁️🌊 Ominous clouds over the ocean last Sunday night. I had just made a bold reservation, holding space for optimism in the face of doubts inside and growing fears outside.
Some days you have to stand up to the dark clouds, and take steps towards a better future.
IndieWebify’s
h-entry validator
should check for the presence of any rel=canonical links, and at a minimum verify
that their href attribute is a valid URL,
and provide a link to check that URL for a valid h-entry as well.
More enhancements are possible, however even this kind of minimum syntax check,
and prompting for subsequent h-entry validation would help catch common typo errors.
Separately, if a rel=canonical link is found, and no u-url is found, then see
#27
for the suggestion to use u-url instead or at least first,
before worrying about rel=canonical.
☁️🌴✨ Took my nephew to see #KnivesOut last night at a theater down south just after sunset. We both enjoyed it quite a bit! The dark storm clouds made for colorful sunset views beforehand.
Can you tell we were in a suburban stripmall parking lot?
Framing (and cropping out) can alter perspective & meaning, with photos & words. Is it the donuthole missing from donut you’re looking for? Or an even smaller donuthole missing from a mini-donut inside a donut?
🏙🌳🏃🏻♂️ Missed last Friday hills @Nov_Project_SF, so I ran my own early that evening. Buena Vista Park, Corona Heights Park (photo), Mount Olympus, and back down and around for 5km and 673' climbed. Ominous clouds the whole time, started drizzling as I got home.
🧘🏻♂️ Taper moods are tough. Much less running this week. Some days not at all, like this past Thursday, where I still made it to early morning yoga @YogaFlowSF which helped a bit. Still, I can feel the increased impatience, anxiety, irritability, and others. Doing my best to alternately keep myself busy and sit with / reflect on each emotion, to allow it to process.
The
W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles
mentions
enhancing individual control and power
and recognizes a few misbehaviors, yet focuses on decentralization,
minimizing single points of failure, and enabling individual & DIY developers.
All of that is good, however there is the larger class of “dark pattern” harms to be named and explicitly avoided in specification and technology designs.
The Principles should explicitly note (either adding to or splitting off from
“The web must enhance individuals' control and power”)
the existence of “dark patterns” in web user interfaces (see
WP: Dark pattern
and darkpatterns.org
for examples), with a statement similar to countering misinformation like:
We will avoid introducing technologies that create new or disproportionately
enable, benefit, or amplify existing user interface dark patterns,
such as confirmshaming, misdirection, friend spam, permissions pressuring or escalation, threat of data loss etc. We should also avoid new technologies that could be easily abused by existing dark patterns to more easily cause new or worse harms to users. We should design specifications that explicitly plan for and mitigate potential dark pattern abuses.
And cite either or both of those above two references. See also
twitter.com/darkpatterns for many more real world web examples.
We obviously won’t be able to prevent all dark patterns and their harms, but we can at least reduce some of them by calling them out, and avoiding new technologies that would increase the chance of users being harmed by existing and new dark patterns.
Meetable has a nice simple upload UI to add photos to events which works great on mobile. It even has an input field to enter image alt text right below the photo! However the one line input field is often too narrow on mobile displays (e.g. iOS/iPod) for good descriptive alt text.
Instead of a one line input, Meetable should use a multiline (try 3 lines) textarea for easier entry of more descriptive alt text.
Early sunrise @Nov_Project_SF this past Wednesday, the last for a while as we enter Daylight Savings Time this weekend, and next Wednesday will once again start in the dark. I plan to wear my lights :)
The 4th was also my 6th #trackiversary, six years since the first time I went to the informal #NPSF track workout at Kezar Stadium: https://tantek.com/t4Uu2. This past Tuesday I was still recovering from the weekend. Hope to make it back to track next Tuesday!
🗓 Home and realizing it’s March 4th before reflecting and looking forward.
February was focused. Tore down a wall and opened holes to the sky for the next phase of a #transformation. Healed with patience, eventually reached out with peace. Ramped up ultra training. One trip, for IndieWebCamp Austin, where I barely did enough running.
Ended February with a practice trail marathon https://tantek.com/t55N4 to cap the month with more miles and elevation than any other. Started March with my last long run and now tapering for the race.
Restarted yoga and Sutra philosphy classes, worthy challenges in the midst of self-disruption.
This month: More shedding. Taxes. Completing an annual revolution. RealID, though no flights planned. My first 50 miler, on the 14th. Finding it difficult to make plans beyond that.
After Yoga Sutra philosophy class last night I decided to go for a night-time walk on East beach. There were no lights other than the Golden Gate Bridge and a waxing moon. As I walked towards the water, the sound of calmly crashing waves in the dark transported me to a night last year half a world away. While the memory was fond, the sense of her absence was too great. I paused only for a blurry view of the bridge(photo), had to turn around and walk back before falling apart.
