• The semi wet sand that nicely crumples beneath your feet.
  • The sound of the tide tumbling dead coral pieces over each other.
  • Walking to a patio restaurant in the rain as a family. The tourists eyeing us with pity when we arrived, soaking.
  • Learning from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s I Asked For Wonder that writing is better with beauty, color, metaphor, and that it needn’t be any less intentional or precise when it has those qualities. (In other words, I’m still unlearning philosophy degree “unstyle” style.)