October 18th, 2020.

A month and a half after evacuations meter hours before everything was incinerated in the #August_Complex fires.

A #waxing_moon following the dissipation of smoke and other toxins that settled and lingered along the coastline of #Humboldt_Bay, where I made my new home for the next two years...

A #waxing_moon that signals #new_beginnings and emergence from tragedy.

New beginnings mean novel possibilities, and hopes of eventualities that did finally bring me home to #SuperSunnySouthernCalifornia in another two and a half years.

I can live without the #redwoods, and I can always visit, but not knowing I needed #sand, #surf, #seagulls, and #palm_trees 🌴 was a revelation, and a joyous realization.

#tallship

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