Near-Death Adventures

First of all, a quick thank you to the subscribers of this Substack. It’s been a challenging summer with a lot of twists and turns, ups and downs. I’m actually looking forward to my final semester of college because it will provide a scaffolding to the ramshackle structure that is my life.

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I’m currently sitting in an outdoor Starbucks, doing some work, starting to wonder if they have a bathroom. Yesterday, I made a decision to give an afternoon over to relaxation. To take a drive out to Zuma Beach and fall asleep on a towel on the sand. To let work worry about itself, if only for a few hours.

On the approach to the beach, driving on a small road that winds around the canyons off the 101, my car decided it would be a great time to lock up the steering wheel, to turn half the warning lights on in red along the dashboard, and quit accelerating.

And look, I can’t blame my car for breaking down. Everyone in this town does it at least once a week.

The thing about Malibu traffic is this. There a…