Today in Wreckage

Because Digging Out Is Exhausting

For seven days the stars over our meadow burned with a vivid luminescence I hadn’t seen in more years than I can count. Venus was a bright pure white, the moon only a sliver, and there were so many stars—more than I can recall seeing in years and in so many colors! Baleful, pulsing red. Electric blue.

For seven days, we had no power, no internet, no tel…