A Box of Matches

‰ЫПOn New Year‰ЫЄs morning this year Claire got us to drive to the ocean to watch the sun rise. That outing was what made me suddenly understand that I needed to start reading Robert Service again and getting up early ‰ЫУ that New Year‰ЫЄs outing combined with the time a few months ago when I took the night sleeper car from Washington to Boston and woke up in my bunk and pulled the curtain to look out the window and saw that we were in New York City, and I realized that I was passing through a very important center of commerce without seeing a single street and that something similar was happening with my life.‰Ыќ