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05 April 2005; 12:35 AM

the most beautiful thing i have seen today

i have been waking up in the night a lot. i won't go into it, but i have been. i woke up sometime this morning and it was still dark out. i looked out the window to see clouds rolling quickly by, lit by the sleeping city and the stars. i watched them roll on, behind the redwood tree, as oliver slumbered quietly.

sometimes i think about the redwood tree, and how it must have an amazing root that goes into the core of the city and the world. a couple of weeks ago oliver and i heard someone discharge a revolver, somewhere near enough that we jumped at every bang, clutching each other tighter as we counted them, helpless. my only real thought was pity for the redwood tree - it must have so much work to do here.