The city has its allures, to be sure. Fells Point in Baltimore's Inner Harbor certainly does.
It's distractions are, indeed, charming.
But it does not stop us from considering the basic elements of existence and our relationship to them and to each other -- the curse of deep thinking.
Good, then, to return home and sit outside in the dark, to stare into the fire together, the owls calling their roundelays under the constellations.
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