Fog Curl and Cliff Erosion
Sunday, August 23, 2009
San Francisco, ultimately, is weather and terrain. It's fog curl and cliff erosion, the stooped back of ascent and that moment (exhilarating, triumphant) when the hills turn in your favor and you are tall in a tall place; you have achieved your point of view. You have to think before you go here. You have to decide how strong you feel, how badly you want, how much you are willing...then you set off, you acquiesce to the whip and the rise and the fall.
It is cold for August. The fog has a mind of its own.
4 comments:
I remember the first time I went on the Golden Gate Bridge. I felt the same way as you: exhilarated, triumphant, tall...
I just want to say, Beth, please keep on writing and clicking.
It's always cold in August. Isn't Mark Twain wrongly attributed with saying the coldest winter he ever spent was summer in San Francisco?
Best of all is when you are tall in a tall place on a bike.
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