Among all the bad news, there has been significant progress
Sitting in a smoky haze as I write my column leaves me in rather a negative funk. The deaths of people protecting their property and the brave volunteers, plus people losing their houses and livelihoods and tens of thousands of people evacuating, is depressing. The vast devastation to our country, plus the deaths of hundreds of thousands of birds and animals, adds deeply to my reflective mood.
We’ve had two close friends lose their homes,
