gazing

If this is a marathon, they’re at the base of Heartbreak Hill and gazing up a steady incline.

Carlos Santana and his wife, Susannah, stood outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles, gazing at the casket of Fernando Valenzuela, the beloved Mexican-born pitcher for the Dodgers.

Joan held her much-longed-for daughter for only for a few minutes – she remembers gazing at the newborn’s red face and matted hair.

"We'd be looking at a field now," he says, gazing across the concrete precinct.

We spent hours lingering in the Chinese gardens, eating in the glass tea house and gazing over the koi-filled pond.