Of those mornings, when I can’t seem to reciprocate the ‘good morning,’ I’m shown the worst of myself. After almost thirty years of self-work, I have no better outlook of “other” than when I began.

The next day, I changed the furniture around to feng shui the place and to, let’s be honest, make it feel a bit like mine since I’ll be here for the next two months…

The stretch of highway between Saint Petersburg and Palmetto is flanked by fat fisherman, pickup trucks, American flags, and aquatic birds dropping into an endless stretch of green ocean…