[Ari]

At this point I presume everything in California will burn down eventually. Which is probably a bit of depressed pessimism, but at this point it’s less about getting sad about what the fires burn and more about surviving them. A few years ago now part of the foothills that I grew up in burned down. Then I lost a friend (not to the fire) and we commemorated her at a nice burner art establishment. A year or so later, that burned down. Then some of the friends I commemorated her with died in a boat fire. And here were are again, in scorching hot fire season. I do feel some of the pessimism is well earned.