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The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
To hope is to risk frustration. Therefore, make up your mind to risk frustration.
—Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and writer (1915–1968)
Fire swept through Southern California from the north of Los Angeles to the Mexican border during October, 2007. Five hundred thousand acres were burned up, a half-million people displaced ...