It’s a beautiful day. The sky is periwinkle blue. Across a cornfield lie the brown hills of the coastal range, the ridgeline so clear I could cut it from the sky with a scalpel. It’s hard to imagine just two weeks ago, the sky was so orange with smoke that people were recreating scenes from … Continue reading Beautiful Day
Month: September 2020
Living History
Beauty is a target for destruction. That’s why fish hide in algae-infested ponds—why I rarely see them leap from the water... If they stay out too long, they won’t die from lack of oxygen—they die because the enormous weight of gravity slowly crushes their organs.
Charlene Mossman 