Heat Shade
‘You are a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress…shade for the heat.’ (Is. 25:4) Just returned from a brief blistering trip to California: 103 degrees in a beach town, the sky poisoned orange as fires seared nearby mountains. Gov. Newsom’s lockdown of the entire state is taking its toll: fear in some faces, lust in others, hungry-eyed exiles looking for sensual connection amid nature’s revolt. Maybe it was just me, caught in the firestorm and taunted by