“the way to create art is to burn and destroy

ordinary concepts and to substitute them

with new truths that run down from the top of the head

and out of the heart” -Charles Bukowski

Those of us living on the west coast of the United States have been experiencing a pretty severe drought this year, with many places — including California — having had this last for many years. Have a listen to Josh Ritter sing about one of the inevitable consequences of drought, Wildfires:

while you consider the fact that prolonged droughts, when accompanied by long, hot summers, often lead to easily flammable terrain. And that’s when the aforementioned disaster — wildfires — tend to be at their worst.