Christmas Day, 2021

Christmas greetings from a chilly and rainy Cape Cod.

We walked for a few miles along the beach to begin the day, and while there were no other humans, we saw plenty of seagulls, cormorants, plovers, and Canada geese. Flying up into the gray sky before swooping back down to the even grayer water, the gulls let out a mournful cry that hollowed me out. Me…