It starts with the sweetest contaminant masks: hound’s-tooth,

hummingbirds & hibiscus. The tagline: Breathe us in on Instagram. It starts

with Instagram, the masks modeled near skateboards and gold-light

palmettos. It starts with a sister’s call from the car: all these trees

down from last night! In the backseat the kids holler-sing. The weatherman

looks surprised by the tornado in Baltimore. In Stanhope. In Bucks County, PA.

Strange days, folks. It starts with a gone jetty. Gone campsite. Gone silo. It starts

with did you see. With still? again? It starts with I could swear it wasn’t always.

It starts and keeps starting. With a sidebar headline and a bummer

of a vacation week—no ocean this year, sorry, kids. But let’s not make it

worse with worry. We’ll play more mini-golf. We’ll still have a good time.