My friend sent a link to a video taken by who knows who, showing the Tsunami of 2004 destroying a hotel in which we stayed in 2003 on Koh Phi Phi in Thailand. ‘We woulda been goners!’ he said.
That which was formerly visible to us only from vantage points in dreams… incidents on the scale of myth: ‘One day out of the west a wall of water higher than the palm trees will come to our island, and almost no one will survive.’
Search/find is easier than digging matching purple socks out of a drawer.
Related note, from an old notebook, a different pre-tsunami trip with Dian:
“Miss Lee on Koh Phi Phi sells us boat tickets to Krabi. To Dian she says:
‘Oh you live on Bali- I would love to go there! But I’m afraid.’
Dian: ‘Of what?’
Miss Lee(not wanting to mention the then-recent bombings, as though Dian would be offended):
‘Of everything!’ ”