20 Year High School Reunion
Sweetie and I spent the weekend looking back at old times with about one or two hundred of the people we graduated from high school with. Twenty years can go by pretty fast when your not looking, and though I thought I was, I can honestly tell you I must have had my head in a book or something. As to how many pages that is that fills up twenty years of time, or how many episodes of Seinfeld one must have watched, well now that’s hard to say. I have a theory that time doesn’t seem all that fast in the present because this is the closest moment it comes to being stationary. Time’s movement isn’t constant like one would think; it accelerates the further it gets from the now. Down on the waterfront, past where the Top Of The Ocean used to sit, past the Harbor Lights and the fire station, lies most of the new construction from the past twenty years of Commencement bay. The dusty costume necklace that was the old Tacoma waterfront has been spun and recast to catch the eyes of a...