SUMMER!

There is so much happiness in swimming naked in a huge warm ocean. The waves weren't huge, but they were there. The water was a murky green soup with all kinds of floating seaweed, but sometimes a little opacity isn't so bad. And there I was, nineteen and naked and bobbing in that big August bathtub of an ocean, feeling free and youthful and tiny and powerful and powerless and connected.

And then chicken wings! Barbecue with Y and T's family! Sitting out in the backyard with a candle! Burning the plastic wick of S's parents' electric candle. Chilly goats and an imaginary trip to Costa Rica.

Yum. What a day.