Skyline

Notes from the field

I am visiting a friend in a different part of the area where I have resettled in California. As I exit the elevator on his floor, I discover an interesting view. I pause to snap a photo. As I turn to walk the last few steps and ring his doorbell, a nonagenarian black woman shuffles past me, hunched over her walker, with a tiny leashed Dachsund trotting …