Story by Michael Kimball

I walk Ogunquit Beach. That’s my exercise and my relief: Walking, listening to seagulls and waves, to music and novels with 3,700 miles of ocean off my shoulder, in the way that the sea tempers the weather—cooler summers, warmer winters—a surfside walk weathers the tempers.  Here, in the vastness of distances, of ocean skies, the steady exhalations of surf over sand smoothes over worries.

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