Day light
The smoke and ash from the Day fire in Ventura have been drifting down on us for a week now. A light coating of feathery stuff on the car in the morning, the scent of smoke on every breeze. It's part of autumn here, the winds and wildfires. Homes and hopes and habitats go up in flames. We see the world through a prism of spent carbon, the western sky turned an impossible gold.
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| WSJ reports that Citigroup executive are looking into the possibility of selling the financial giant or auctioning off pieces.
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| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
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