Sometimes I wonder how I’m going to write about something every single day. Before I sat down to write this I wondered if I’d have anything to write about—but then, I thought about my day. Our days are filled with so many moments, and any one of them is worth meditating on.

This will be a meta post, because instead of writing about any one of them in detail, I’m just going to call out what I could have written about (and perhaps, of course, I’ll come to write about all of them). I’m writing it to remind me that there’s always something to write about.

To frame the rest of the post: I went on a short hike today with a new friend in the morning (which I will be writing about soon) and then spent the afternoon/evening with my wife and our dog (which I’ll always write about, for the rest of time). Alright, that said, let’s get into it.

  1. Preparing for the hike, I packed my Ricoh GR III, my field recorder, my binaural microphones and my earmuff-style windshield. There’s something in here about the size of the gear I buy and why I do it. There’s something about opening yourself up to potential. There’s something about quality, and intention, and presence.
  2. I drove from my home in Oakland to San Francisco to pick up a friend. It was early enough that there was no real traffic on the Bay Bridge. It was a beautiful morning. Visibility was perfect. I had one of those moments where I couldn’t believe that I get to live in this incredible place. There’s something in here about having a car for the first time, learning to drive in America, the freedom of driving. There’s something about that view as you cross the bridge, about how driving in California is certainly no punishment, good driving music.
  3. When I arrived, I parked up (which is not an easy task in San Francisco) and grabbed a flat white at Sightglass. There’s something in here about the energy of San Francisco vs. Oakland (and Brooklyn, and London). There’s something about the flat white, and about coffee in S.F. vs. NYC vs. London. There’s something about the crowd you get in coffee shops in each place and what they’re typically doing.
  4. I met my friend and we jumped in the car. We drove over the Golden Gate Bridge and had our first in-person conversation. There’s something about driving over that bridge, about the conversations you have in a car vs. on a walk vs. sitting across from one another in a coffee shop. There’s something about someone hearing the music you’re listening too and whether you connect over it.
  5. When we got to the trailhead and started looking for parking we happened to be talking about how some of the best things in life come from embracing cringe, and accepting that you might put yourself out there only for things not to work out. It was busy and it looked like we’d struggle to find parking, but I drove all the way to the end vs. squeezing on the side of the road. When we got to the small car park, there was a single empty space just waiting for us. It felt like the universe had decided to reward our perseverance (“there’s probably not a space up there… but what of there is”). There’s something about fate, fluke, coincidence, or about comedic and wonderful timing.

Okay… I’ve appended “pt. 1” to the title of this post and I’ll come back with a pt. 2, because it turns out there were even more moments to write about than I thought there would be. Any one of the points above could actually be 3+ posts. I guess my point has been proven. Back tomorrow though, because 1: I always am, and 2: I want to capture those other moments.