The other day I went hiking in the hills above Montecito in an area that had been devastated by the Thomas Fire of late 2017, and then released as the harrowing Montecito mudslide that followed in January 2018. I hadn’t been up there since, and for some reason I was drawn there with Napper that day. Walking on the incredibly green and lush trail with wildflowers blooming all around us, we began to notice the blackened tree trunks that dotted the landscape.

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