{"id":460,"date":"2008-05-16T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2008-05-16T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:37:27","slug":"last-nights-tweets-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2008\/last-nights-tweets-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Night’s Tweets on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Heads up, this content is 18 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div>

Running to the warm night beach before the sky loses all of its pink and the water fades from sapphire to black. 8:52pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I found magic, and its tide is up. 8:53pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Standing here alone. I’ve never seen the SF ocean so gorgeous. Want to share it. It smells like sushi. I have no camera. You’re missing it. 8:59pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right now, I get it. We’re building all these tools so we can connect everything because connection is the only way anything feels right. 9:02pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m standing feet firm in the sand, dumbstruck that i’m talking to people who have no idea how this air feels, and that I can’t change that. 9:09pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And at the same time, this conversation puts this experience into my narrative. Because you’re listening, I will remember this. 9:11pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our stories are stronger when others interact with them. I can spend entire days alone because I’ve created an audience that isn’t here. 9:17pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I feel like my reality is changing in a direction I have too much control over. If my experience is so explicitly narrated, my ego owns me. 9:26pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sky and the water are both dark grey blue now, both highlighted with specks and streaks of white. But you only know cuz i’m telling you. 9:32pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I stand on my tiptoes and sink my feet in deep, the sand is still warm from the heat today. Even tho my head is getting cold from wet air 9:43pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still here. If you were here, you’d stay, too. But maybe only cuz I’d tell you why you should. I live-narrate meaning in meatspace, too. 10:00pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ok, so I don’t have more control. I just have a stronger filter on my perceptions because I have more tools to narrate and frame experience. 10:03pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I’ve totally disregarded my self-censoring limits on reasonable twitter frequency and intimacy tonight… making this even more surreal. 10:10pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before I walk away, you should know that the waves are moving like that nylon parachute you stood around in gym class and made ripples with. 10:14pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s all. 10:14pm<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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