And with that clerkmanifesto is back in real time, composing on a proper keyboard in a kitchen across from the Mediterranean. I look to my right, across the hall, through the living room, over the balcony, and there are the lights of Cannes.
We are on the bay of Cannes and at night the lights twinkle all around! They really do twinkle! Sometimes the yachts park overnight in the sea here, but less and less in the week we've been here. Perhaps their season is ending and all the rich people are flying back to, um, St. Moritz? Barbados? Minsk?
It is all very pretty here. Impossibly so sometimes. One of the strangest things about the past month and a half is how we still live life, have problems, get miserable, and yet... it's all so extraordinary. I'm glad I could show you so many pictures of Kyoto and Tokyo as we went. That might be my best way of saying anything about it all here, but maybe later I can try in words to explain it all, in little ways.
Until then, I have more pictures.
In the shock of the loveliness of this coast I at first felt compelled to convert all my images into the style of Dr. Seuss. The water, architecture, steep terrain, and meandering, sometimes overzealous staircases here are extremely evocative of Dr Seuss and so I took comfort in changing everything I photographed here into a fantastical version of itself. Somehow leaning into it all made it made it briefly less fantastical and easier to see.
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