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Home / Collections / Field Notes & Writing / On California / California Needs Us

California Needs Us

Or she may well just give up and drop off into the ocean as the soothsayers predict.

We need Her too—more than she needs us

We claim to own her—every last square inch

Do we love our “property” enough to care for it?

Do we love our mother enough to care for her?

Do we care about our source of just about everything?

California—bank account, breadbasket, mother, home, chattel all in one.

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