Coffee Chronicle #4: My reading spot today: W Cafe in Waterstones, Oxford. I’m reading Virgil’s Eclogues.

Today, reading spot is Starbucks, Roosevelt, Seaside, Oregon.  First coffee.

Coffee and reading or listening while walking along the North Promenade - ocean in view.  Stormy sea, lights in intervals off shore.   Past the Salt Works.

Could it be that ships are "stacked"  outside the Bar waiting to enter the mouth of the Columbia River and beyond?  Astoria, Clackamas,  Clatskanie, Longview, Kelso, Portland.

Lumber, wood products, sawdust, composite.

A flatwhite, espresso and whole milk.  Observations,  part of a daily Practice.  Read, write, listen,  look left to right.  Be aware.

Dressed in rubber, boots, jacket.