CAN’T YOU SEE THAT CALIFORNIA IS BURNING AND NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING TO HELP HER?

California is both a person and a place, she is a deity of sorts. California is a paradise, a diverse landscape, a rich mediascape. But she can’t remain. Each year the size and severity of these fires grow. We Californians witness her burning and mourn her landscape, but are we complicit? Or are efforts to battle and prevent these fires fruitful? Have you seen the fire scars heal? Have you seen how fast life returns and how beautiful it looks? The fires aren’t coincidental, they are the preparation for something greater, something beyond our control. With apocalypse comes rebirth, a transformation. Whether or not we are here for the new California is unknown, but what we do know is that we are witnesses now. We are witnessing both the beginning and the end simultaneously. Long Live California.