People I Have Been Before

I've been coming back on people I have been before, and things I've loved and somehow lost sight of—surprised and pleased to find them there, still waiting for me, after all these years.

·      the ocean, walking there, watching seabirds, eating grilled fish on a terrace

·      the baby pigs at Rancho San Antonio, the hidden grotto on the river in the trees

·      croquet

·      little sailboats thrilled with wind

·      library books

·      drawing with fine-tipped pens

·      turtles

·      chalcedony and malechite and quartz crystals

·      Inspector Clouseau

·      tiny overripe raspberries

·      Jackson Browne

·      coffee with milk

·      Nabokov

·      wasabi, wabi sabi, zabaglione

·      wordplay

·      Marguerite Duras

·      barbecued oysters

·      Sempe

·      The Owl and the Pussycat

image:  Christie B. Cochrell, Window in Lucca