Sometimes, if I angle things just right…

Sometimes, if I angle things just right… at just the right time, I can pretend I am the only human in the park.

The bird songs and gentle breeze in the trees can then seem louder than the seaplanes and distant traffic…

And racing thoughts and complicated to-do lists fall away…

Perhaps now and then a castaway on a lonely desert island dreads the thought of being rescued.  – Sarah Orne Jewett