My goodness, Mike Alexander, I wrote this a while back, so thanks for finding it! And I’m glad it resonated with you; I still have some friends who think I’ve lost my mind. Then they visit. They see the reality. They see the sea right outside my window, just down the street.

Sometimes they even “get it.”

I did, however, just buy six pairs of socks, but they’re the first ones in about two years … ;-)