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# Smoke
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/smoke/
- Published: 2020-09-09T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:53.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

California’s wildfires have dimmed the sun, transforming San Francisco’s skies into a *Blade Runner* scene, a never-ending twilight. They’re calling it a once-in-a-generation event. Record-breaking heat, drought, and fires generating their own weather systems. There have been too many once-in-a-lifetime events this year. I’d always thought the future was just around the corner, but it’s already here.

Meanwhile, a new book says our president knew a pandemic was coming yet minimized the risks anyway. There are recordings of him saying things like “this is deadly stuff” but “I wanted to always play it down.” In a different world, this would be a bombshell, cause for outrage. But it won’t make a dent. 

But cynicism is easy. The challenge is maintaining a sense of dignity, maybe even hope in these undignified times.

#### [Abul Mogard – The Sky Had Vanished](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/The%20Sky%20Had%20Vanished.mp3?ref=jamesreeves.co)

###### Works | Ecstatic, 2016 | [Bandcamp](https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/works?ref=jamesreeves.co)

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