In her memory, out the kitchen window of Griff’s Beach house, late afternoon sun illuminated yellow white sand on the empty beach. White-fringed waves of blue water rolled gently ashore. The time from when she first met Griff at a Berkeley Marina bar and his graduation from Stanford Law were in her recollections marked by the mid-October day last year after the home game with Arizona State.
The Champagne with which he had arrived was, she initially thought, because the final score was Stanford 24 ASU 3.
Class prep for her fall 1989 art school course in Artists Books: Lineage and Creative Practice would begin at about the time Griff opened pre-season practice for his new job as Head Coach for Huygens Tech.
Meanwhile, there would be a wedding.