I walk into this view and greedily soak in every color and texture until I’m drunk on beauty, cool sand beneath my feet, demure waves rippling onto shore and out again, sun spraying the sky pink and casting golden upon the water, a solitary bird my companion, the horizon and the tree line the extent of my world. I want to appreciate this moment completely and I also want to take a photo for keepsake which means reaching for my phone and entering my passcode and hey there’s a message waiting for me and opening my camera app but I push through and get the photo and still savor the moment and before long darkness falls.
