100 Words: Blue mind

Blue mind, the opposite of screen mind, though screens shed the blue light that breaks up your sleep, shatters the pupil’s track, leaves us raw and rusty and red; blue mind in the sky, blue mind in the water, a puddle or a stream or Lake Michigan calling to me as it does nearly every day from a few blocks away, sitting at home feeling myself and everything tip and slide in the direction of infinite water. Today I’ve slipped up to a secret sliver of beach and dunes that Wilmette keeps to itself—dogs, kids, no masks. Dizzyingly normal, blue.