When I grow up, I want to be a basketball court. I didn’t realize this until walking just this morning out of my former neighborhood cafe, where bacon is still fried hard and crisp and kombucha is vinegary sweet, and seeing a dude on the court across from me practicing tai chi.

A person wearing a faded gray green hooded sweatshirt and black sweat pants and white low top sneakers crouches with arms akimbo during an impromptu tai chi session atop the basketball court Sunday, December 4th, 2022 at F.M. Smith Park in Oakland, California

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