Singles #15
The Puget Sound […] is a sound or complex of inland marine waterways in the northwestern part of Washington, United States, extending from the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca south to the head of the sound at the state capital of Olympia. It branches out from Admiralty Inlet and Deception Pass in the north to Olympia, Washington in the south.[…] The term is also used to mean the general region of the sound, including the Seattle metropolitan area, home to about 4.2 million people.
‘Puget Sound’, Wikipedia
Evergreen College, Olympia, 2007.
When I took that photograph I felt so completely at ease, so completely free from the idiocy that had surrounded me only a week or two earlier, that I didn’t fully register where I was: I could have been in country for all it mattered at the time. I had escaped something, and where I had escaped to was almost incidental. That is how I remember it, anyway, looking back after two years. I’ll have to go back and explore the waters around Olympia more carefully someday, taking in the place for what it is, appreciating its unique textures. Hopefully Teresa, the girl sitting on the beach, can come too.