We Didn’t Start the Fire

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The Los Angeles fires are bad enough.

The comments on the photos of the devastation are even worse.

Every damn thing is a political argument now.

Seriously, there are people who truly believe that God started the fire because He was upset with liberal living.

As if the only people who live in Los Angeles are blue hippies who are into free love.

That’s as dumb a take as there can possibly be, but it is certainly out there.

There’s a whole ‘nother camp who buy into the idea that the fire couldn’t be controlled because the hydrants were empty because the governor doesn’t believe in water or some such crap.

Looking for blame, and somehow trying to swing it back around to make a political point somehow.

It’s a tragedy.

People are scrambling to find places to live. They’re devastated and unsure about their future.

They aren’t all movie stars.

Plenty of regular old people out there with jobs and families and dogs and dreams.

If your first impulse in a time of tragedy is to yell out, “Good for you, you stupid bastards!”

Well, then you might not be a great person.

I don’t know enough about climate change.

I’m certainly not an expert, but we have had about 20 ‘once in a century’ type of storms somewhere in the country.

Fires.

Hurricanes.

Blizzards.

And perhaps it’s all just the planet doing what it does.

The dinosaurs certainly didn’t see the ice age coming but the planet expelled them.

Perhaps that’s all this is…

…we’re getting bounced by nature.

Thing is, we are supposed to be evolved enough to figure it all out.

See the signs somehow.

I don’t know.

Don’t feel like thinking or arguing about any of it.

Just feeling for those people…

…hoping there’s some sort of peace.

We went out to Los Angeles years ago. We didn’t have GPS and we truly didn’t have a destination in mind…

…we ended up seeing it all.

Beverly Hills.

The Hollywood Hills.

The Hollywood sign.

Pacific Palisades and Malibu.

Can’t even imagine that it’s burning to the ground.

Heartbreaking.

Or it should be…

…and yet, some people are enjoying it.

That’s crazy to me.


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