McCarthy, Dante, & Fires in the Dark

Lighting the way for those who would follow

It’s late, & the last few weeks have been long, my family driving back & forth between Florida & Tennessee & Indiana. Along the way we’ve encountered unusually heavy thunderstorms in Florida, an infernal heatwave in Tennessee, & lingering smoke from the Canadian wildfires in northern Indiana. Apocalyptic.

One of my family’s patriarchs has passed on over …