Your first day learning to surf doesn’t begin with the ocean; it starts with a feeling—the kind that pulls at you while you’re scrolling past sunrise photos and glassy waves, the kind that shows up in a stray beach breeze miles from the coast or in a song that sounds like summer. Surfing has a …
On an August day that might otherwise have passed like any other—humid, slow, the air shimmering above cobblestones—two signatures on two very different pieces of paper nudged the world onto quieter, healthier tracks. On August 20, 1866, President Andrew Johnson proclaimed the last embers of the U.S. Civil War officially extinguished, a legal coda to …
