This month SoCal / Baja Cal weather has already given back so much water to the earth. It is an unruly kindness to accept. Rain brings forth so much life even as it causes so much damage. I think all our civil engineering ancestors would be ashamed if they knew how we still have not tamed water. And how uncivilized we are in general. It will be fun to go out- when it is not a total mud hole to venture out- and see new green rioting across the usually dusty hills. Even better will be seeing the flowers. The coils of razor wire are a bit more tolerable when you can look at some wild flowers blooming beneath it them. Flowers will appear in abundance anyway during this time of the year. In all the shops! This is, after all, the month of bouquets- candy, and plushies. Mustn’t forget to mention the plushies! This month happens to also be an anniversary month. Conveniently. The trials of these last few years have been such a strain. I am not even ready to talk...