Dispatch from Ocean Beach.3

People of the sand question everything

Paleontologists relish finding ancient footprints in dried volcanic ash.

Cyber sleuths celebrate when they discover digital fingerprints hiding in the code.

Ocean Beach regulars revel in something far more prosaic — toes and fingers in the soft sand, impressions from the original digital world.

High tide might wash these impressions away, but it doesn’t matter. We don’t come to Ocean Beach to make our mark; There’s a whole City devoted to that.

We come instead because we have questions that it seems only Ocean Beach can answer.

Some find an answer and write it down.

Others stare out to sea. What are they looking for? The Far West or the Far East? Perspective matters.