The Wind Shows Us How Close to the Edge We Are
Thursday December 1, 2011
Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
~Joan Didion
from “Los Angeles Notebook” in Slouching Towards Bethlehem ~ NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 / pg 220-21
