New York City, March 8, 2016

★★★ The cross street outside the school was full of traffic and bright haze and marijuana smoke. Again, a veil quickly covered the early sun. The warmth was going to arrive, and by afternoon some people had gone so far as to go out in t-shirts, which was overkill or wishfulness. People who calibrated their clothing decisions, meanwhile, had taken the effort to put on scarves. By sundown the light jacket and the bare ankles, worth trying in the morning, were both less than what was necessary.