May 3, 2023:
Later — summers home from school — restaurants became points of contact. Perhaps ironically, one of the few we ever achieved.
We loved Yen Ching in Kearney Mesa. Consuelo's and Margarita's in Ocean Beach. Lino's in Old Town. Filippi's in Pacific Beach.
Today I have happy memories of the tables in those settings, with her across from me, trying dishes. "Where do you want to go tonight?" Itself a moment of connection.
What did we talk about? I don't remember. Did we talk at all? We must have, but, it couldn't have been important. We were connected by the table and by the activity, where talking never was ever our thing.