I am in a place where I can see the ocean and the expanse of the sky. Recently I was surprised by the red moon slowly coming up over the horizon. I had forgotten what that splendor would be. Perhaps I have also forgotten what  it is like to investigate my life in a wider, not deeper way. When I first moved to New York City, our apartment in Battery Park City looked up at the World Trade Center towers. It was a vertical outlook. Those years we would travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico and enjoy the expanse of the great sky and light. There was a wideness…