Later. A walk about half way to the downtown not having any thought there was anything I wanted to see or do there, this thought coming to a head as I turned the corner onto Broadway and reversed my direction to walk back home with a stop for lunch at The Old Place, a dim sum restaurant close to my apartment. The back aching a bit after I'd been walking for a while so I must have gotten something out of it, a walk of perhaps half an hour. So give me a gold star and a couple of claps, I guess, here in Oakland.

An odd thought or “feeling”, really, as I was sitting, looking at some of the other customers at their tables envisioning how I might photograph them. Well, the women anyway. Now this might not be so odd, you're thinking, and it isn't. I have these thoughts all the time and I go on interminably about them here. That's why I called my moment of epiphany at the restaurant more of a “feeling” than any thought I might be having. I got the “feeling” that something had been lifted and I had turned a corner somewhere in the middle of the lettuce with minced chicken. So we'll see. Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but if these “feelings” become more common they may be a sign something is coming. If nothing else it felt good, that “feeling”, sitting there in a Chinese restaurant in Oakland on a Sunday.