Thank you for sharing this story. I feel like Chico is such a stark image of the future that's coming for everyone with climate change, y'know? The way Paradise is getting rebuilt almost exactly the same as it was, maybe with more fire safety measures but not with any greater attention to creating a truly resilient community. I remember walking through it maybe a year after the Camp Fire and seeing it look like literal hell, black trees and orange ground and brick fences where houses once stood that have nothing behind them. The way so many people in Chico are still suffering, still displaced, still homeless, the housing crisis and the virulent political backlash against homeless people. The political and social tensions between people trying to figure out how to respond and move forward with such radically different visions of what that means. The attempts at healing and resilience that are never enough, but are still happening. The little bits of hope I have are in the goats in Bidwell Park and Ali Meders-Knight's TEK classes at Verbena Fields (and just about everything that woman does) and the people understanding that real healing from this requires deep transformation of the way we live. I'm not from Chico - I just have some good friends there and have visited from time to time - but it feels like such an important place for the rest of the country to see what the future of climate change looks like, how much trauma is still left, how personal and systemic it all is at the same time. None of it heals the trauma. None of it ever feels like "enough." I don't know entirely what my point is. Just, thank you for sharing.