5 Words: A Writing Exercise

I've been assigned 5 words upon which I must create a blog! They are: 1. beam; 2. stack; 3. obtuse; 4. strike; 5. depth.

Here it goes!

There is a kind of depth that you experience when you're standing in the middle of Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood, looking up. It's not necessarily just what you can measure with your eyes. The beams of some of the West Side's tallest buildings shoot up into the air between window panes and panels of facade made from some form of grout. So many of them have touches of architectural design, yet none of the accents differ from the basic form more than an obtuse edge here and there. As Wilshire Boulevard winds gradually over a slightly graded hill, these buildings - in a stack so close together they're like dominoes that you fully intend to knock down later - grow drastically from the flat national cemetery to heights of 40 stories or more. As quickly as they grow, they fall back down again. You find yourself on a street lined with trees on either side that leads you to Beverly Hills. The experience is so grand and so brief that it might strike you as a dream. But it wasn't! After spending thirty minutes trying to figure out where to turn around, you do it again.