Binoculars

I recently bought a pair of $30 binoculars from Amazon and it’s become one of my favorite ourchases in recent memory. I’ll frequently head up to the roof of my apartment and look out across the bay at Alcatraz, at the fog rolling over the hills, at buildings in downtown FiDi, container ships lumbering and ferries zipping across the bay. On warm days I like to look at the sailboats and the seagulls and small green parrots flitting about the city. I’ll take the binoculars with me to the office and look at the buildings on my breaks. I get admire the details and textures in the façades that are normally too far and high up to appreciate. I take them on the, now infrequent, occasions when I hike and I get to observe eagles and wildlife and beautiful landscapes up close. By far the best part of binoculars is how they expand my lived environment. They make the world noticeably bigger. I have 270deg of beautiful views from my apartment rooftop but to the naked eye you can only divide that up…