-seabreeze and reaffirming my love of the city

When I was a kid (about 16 I think) we took a family vacation up the coast from Oceanside as far North as SF. Of all my great memories, the most vivid was the sweeping midst and the cool seabreeze. Spending many years in a SoCal beach town, the seabreeze wasn't new to me...but the Bay Area seabreeze is distinct. I remember thinking at the time that I'd love living in SF someday and the seabreeze became a symbolic reminder of that as the years passed back in SoCal.

Tonight as I was headed home - climbing CA St. - I was reminded of that almost eucalyptus like breeze.
Whipping through the building and hills, then finally reaching my nose - I took a deep breath.

Filling my lungs, that breath that took me back to that memory of the seabreeze.

I smiled. How extraordinary.

I've lived in the city for 12 years now and often I take it for granted -
but not tonight.