After
A reflection on The Tormented, 2025
I arrived after. I wasn’t even aware there was an ‘after’ to which I would arrive. Had I heard, I don’t recall; it has all become commonplace. I recall the Camp Fire and its decimation of the community of Paradise but three years later the Dixie Fire, the single largest wildfire in California history at that time, wasn’t the same epicenter of attention or possibly that is what my mind wants me to recall. It’s easier on the mind to not accept the idea that one has become numb to such occurrences.