title: Out of the Fog, Into the Light
author:  Victoria Ayres 
description: Victoria Ayres is an author who enjoys inspiring and empowering others to heal from past wounds and be their best possible selves. Please visit www.VictoriaAyres.com for more information on Victoria and to read her blog.
zlib_text: # FOR A FOGGY NIGHT
  
  
  
  
  
  The bar was selling a lot of Irish coffee that night. I’d bought two myself.
  It was warm inside, almost too warm, except when someone pushed through the
  door. Then a puff of chill, damp fog would roll in.
  
  
  
  
  
  Beyond the window was grey chaos. The fog picked up all the various city
  lights: yellow light leaking from inside the bar, passing automobile
  headlights, white light from frosted street globes, and the rainbow colors of
  neon signs. The fog stirred all the lights together into a cold graywhite
  paste and leaked it hack through the windows.
  
  
  
  
  
  Bright spots drifted past at a pedestrian’s pace. Cars. I felt sorry for the
  drivers. Rolling through a gray formless limbo, running from street globe to
  invisible street globe, alert for the abrupt, dangerous red dot of a traffic
  light: an intersection; you couldn’t tell otherwise… I had friends in San
  Francisco; there were other places I could be. But it wasn’t my city, and I
  was damned if I’d drive tonight.
  
  
  
  
  
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