Sharing with special friends complicated decisions about life, love and children. It is refreshing to find acceptance peppered with concern.

Sleep sent by drug cocktails. Intermittent wakefulness punctuated by Mom coming home, dinner with family, short calls and a sale.

Ink stains from trying a new fountain pen are in counterpoint with the news in the office. Speak and listen.

Questions beget questions. Discovering what dreams and finding it to be past normal and more than expected. Definitive outlier life.

Inside, words overlap the dreams built when no one was looking. Jumping into the ocean is when the dream turns.